Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Word of the Day: presumptuous
This word has appeared in 25 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Free June 2022 Wallpaper & Instagram quote
June 1, 2022 Free June 2022 wallpaper is here! Bring the warm summer sunsets to your home and office with this month’s free wallpaper. Bold pink and purple shades combined will give you cozy and calming energy and help you relax. Each wallpaper download from June 2022 includes: Desktop wallpaper x3 (plain, with the calendar,…
The Misleading Math of Prenatal Tests
Going Further1. Discuss the regulation of prenatal tests.Read the following section from the article, which quotes Alberto Gutierrez, the former director of the F.D.A. office that oversees many medical tests:“These numbers are meaningless,” said Mr. Gutierrez, the former F.D.A. official, after reviewing an advertisement for the Quest Diagnostics QNatal Advanced Test.The test is advertised as…
Must Read
In-and-Out Lists
Have you been noticing a proliferation of In-and-Out lists on social media lately?As the new year began, Instagram and TikTok lists confidently declared that things like “extra-large bags, silver jewelry and gardening” would be “in,” while “quiet luxury, podcasts and late bedtimes” would be “out.”What do you think of lists like this? If you were…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
See you in 2021!
What a year! We’re taking a break to spend (even more) time with members of our households. We hope that you are able to stay safe and take time to enjoy the end of 2020! We will be back in 2021 with our next blog post on January 21st!
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Film Club: ‘Svonni v. the Swedish Tax Agency’
What can we learn from the fight between an Indigenous Sami woman and a government bureaucracy?
Weekly Accessible Learning Activities: Football Vocabulary, Cold-Water Plunges, Comics Reporting
Each Wednesday we shine a spotlight on five student activities that support a broad range of learners. In this week’s roundup of accessible activities, we invite students to learn how to illustrate their feelings, reflect on their experiences with cold water, meet a Times comics reporter, listen to the pronunciation of a new word and…
Past Stories
High on Helping: The Dangers of Voluntourism
This essay, by Ketong Li, age 17, from Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Conn., is one of the Top 11 winners of The Learning Network’s Ninth Annual Student Editorial Contest, for which we received 16,664 entries.We are publishing the work of all the winners and runners-up over the next week, and you can find them…
How do Learning Styles Affect Learning Predictions?
Students learned one list at a time. While the students were learning the lists, they were asked to make a judgment of learning (JOL). A JOL is just a prediction about how well they think they have learned the material. In this case, they were asked to rate the likelihood that they would remember the…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Student Contest Winner: Street Market Sweets
This piece is one of 10 winners of our 2022 Profile Contest. You can find more here. Gauri Gupta, the author, is 14 and goes to the The Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, India.Street Market SweetsBy Gauri GuptaIn March 2020, India experienced the first wave of Covid-19 and went into a complete national…
6 Common Mistakes To Avoid While Building a Website
After getting a handle on the “holy trinity” of web dev languages — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — you might feel inclined to jump right into building websites. But if you aren't careful, you could overlook some key considerations that'll affect your site's functionality and user experience. Needless to say, a lot of work goes…
What Are the Benefits of Gypsum Ceilings
Gypsum ceilings have become a popular choice in both residential and commercial spaces due to their versatility, aesthetic appeal, and practical advantages. This article explores the various benefits of gypsum ceilings, from their aesthetic contributions to their functional properties, helping you understand why they might be the right choice for your next renovation or construction…