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The Winners of Our Ninth Annual Student Review Contest
Willet Cole, 13, Sussex Academy, Georgetown, Del.: “Five Nights at Freddy’s FLOP”Yuki Wen, 15, Bishop Strachan School, Toronto: “The iPhone 15: Who Needs Innovation When You Can Have Déjà Vu?”Zackary Kozak, 18, American Heritage Schools, Palm Beach Campus, Delray Beach, Fla.:“‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’: Sharing the Wealth of Words”Zijing Xin, 16, Shanghai Pinghe…
What’s Going On in This Graph? | April 17, 2024
On Wednesday, April 17, teachers from our collaborator, the American Statistical Association, will facilitate this discussion from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time.5. By Friday morning, April 19, we will reveal more information about the graph, including a free link to the article that includes this graph, at the bottom of this post. We…
Three entry-level certificates from Google now available in Spanish
By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer at Coursera To make critical job-relevant content more accessible to the over 450 million native Spanish speakers around the world, the Google Professional Certificates on Coursera in Data Analytics, Project Management, and User Experience (UX) Design now support Spanish-language learners with expanded translations and subtitles. These translated materials come…
Film Club: ‘My Disability Roadmap’
“My Disability Roadmap” is a 23-minute Op-Doc film by Samuel Habib and his father. Samuel, 21, wants to date, leave home, go away to college. But as he says, “No one tells you how to be an adult, let alone an adult with a disability.” So Samuel seeks out guidance from America’s most rebellious disability…
Building a Career, One Academic Step at a Time
It wasn’t planned. The path that led Candice Retas from an interest in studying music and the arts to a career in nursing was one that just unfolded. “I definitely did not map this out,” Ms. Retas, 26, said with a laugh. “It was kind of one step at a time.” Actually, it was one…
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Ask a Software Engineer: Airbnb Edition 🏡
A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer (via Life of Luba) With Airbnb came a revolution of sorts in the world of vacation travel and culture. We sat down with Luba Yudasina, a YouTuber, an opera singer, and a Software Engineer on the Airbnb’s Homes Platform team, to discuss software engineering and her…
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!
Workday joins Coursera to jumpstart careers in enterprise software
By Marni Baker Stein, Chief Content Officer, Coursera Today, I am excited to welcome Workday, a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications, to our partner community. Workday has launched the Workday Basics Series on Coursera, designed to familiarize learners with their platform and introduce opportunities for careers in Workday technology. Workday is a leading enterprise…
The Winners of Our 8th Annual Student Podcast Contest
We invited teenagers to create an original five-minute podcast about almost anything. Listen to some of the winning podcasts selected from over 1,600 submissions.
Thank you to Our 2024 Community!
Thank you to our guest bloggers and podcast interviewees! We’ve learned so much from your different perspectives and experiences and we’re proud to be able to share that with our readers. As Learning Scientists we, of course, love to talk about learning, but we also love getting to learn ourselves! (Have something interesting to share…
Past Stories
Word of the Day: obsolescence
The word obsolescence has appeared in 31 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 4 in “Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts” by William J. Broad:DeepMind’s weather advance comes two months after other A.I. researchers in the company shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry. The scientific news forms a…
What Students Are Saying About Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’
The period of school shutdowns got students out of their school routines.When I think back to virtual learning, my brain automatically goes to how stress free it was. I was in sixth grade when Covid first hit and going through a period of my life where I was extremely anxious at school. I believe that…
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…
Summer Reading Contest Winner Week 2: On ‘One Woman’s Journey Through...
WinnerKevin Shi, 14, from Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, Calif., chose an Opinion piece by columnist Nicholas Kristof headlined “One Woman’s Journey Through Chinese Atrocities” and wrote:During the last few months of this school year, my history teacher told my class the story of World War II. It was at the same time…
YOUR TEMPERAMENT AND YOUR CAREER
Have you ever wished you could be as outspoken, confident, and flexible as someone else?You can’t just be like the person you admire, no matter how hard you try; you lack the qualities, which can be frustrating! Why do you behave the way you do rather than the way the other person behaves? Temperament, the…
When Do You Become an Adult?
Find all our Student Opinion questions here.Do you think there is a certain age when someone becomes an adult? How can you know what that age is?What are the privileges associated with adulthood in your state or country? What are the responsibilities?What about within your family? Are you expected to do certain “adult” things by…