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Word + Quiz: copse
Note: Our Sixth Annual 15-Second Vocabulary Video Challenge is underway. It will run until Feb. 18. copse ˈkäps noun : a dense growth of trees, shrubs, or bushes _________ The word copse has appeared in 13 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 2 in “Italian Alpine Spas, Where Sports…
Want to Gain Confidence? Try These Helpful Techniques
Feb 22, 2019 By Sarah K. One way to make a big difference to your life is to gain confidence. From negotiating your salary, to standing up for yourself, to believing you can make your dreams a reality, confidence is often the most important ingredient. But confidence doesn’t come naturally to most of us. For…
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…
Your FREE 2026 Blog & Life Planner is Here! (Lavender Edition)
November 10, 2025 You asked, and we listened! Get ready to elevate your planning for 2026, because one of our most-loved themes is back by popular demand. Our beautiful lavender theme from a previous collection is making a stunning return, and it’s better than ever. We’ve given it a small refresh and added even more…
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…
June Events
Simon Nelson, CEO, FutureLearn will keynote at the Construct: Higher Education in a Post-COVID World online event from 1-1:30pm BST on 4 June. Simon will be talking about Lessons from Lockdown: Thinking long term. Justin Cooke, Chief Content & Partnerships Officer, FutureLearn is speaking at The second EdTech industry collaboration to help schools and…
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Trends in the Learning System and Tech Space
In the coming weeks, you will learn the Gen-AI terminology you need to know, with definitions (also available as a download in the learning library), and the latest learning technology/systems worth a few eyeballs. Plus, “Product Spotlight” covers one learning system that I dive into with lots of gusto – basically, it is a re-branded…
What Small Moments From Your Life Do You Think About Often?
Cast DoubtLeft arm wrapped in a bright yellow cast, I marched into my first-grade classroom, brandishing my shattered wrist for all to see.“Can I sign it?”For the next three weeks, I was a celebrity. Elected line leader, I paraded my troops across campus, signatures and doodles adorning my casted arm. But it turns out, I…
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…
Lesson of the Day: ‘‘I Have Waited 68 Years to See...
Find all our Lessons of the Day here. Lesson Overview Featured Article: “‘I Have Waited 68 Years to See This’: How Honor Flights Help Veterans Reflect” Each year, for Veterans Day, an organization, known as the Honor Flight Network, transports veterans from American Wars to the nation’s capital to see the monuments honoring them. In…
Teenagers in The Times: February 2020
Here is the February 2020 edition of Teenagers in The Times, a roundup of the news and feature stories about young people that have recently appeared across sections of NYTimes.com. We publish a new edition on the first Thursday of each month.For ideas about how to use Teenagers in The Times with your students, please…
Health student, supporting a safer industry
After gaining an impressive two degrees and a postgraduate diploma at a young age, Faye became a lawyer – a career that she’d always hoped for. “I always liked understanding systems and rules and processes” she recalls. “My goal was to translate that into a job that helped others gain access to justice”. As her…
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Ask a Data Engineer: Warby Parker Edition 👓
Codecademy’s very own Nick Duckwiler (left) and Ryan Tuck from Warby Parker (right) in our office. (📷: Mitch Boyer) Last month, Codecademy and Warby Parker came together to work on a special Learn SQL from Scratch Capstone Project. It was during this time when I met Ryan Tuck, a Data Engineer at Warby, who played…
EDUCAUSE 2019: What are students really looking for from higher education?
Author: Holly Shiflett, Director, North American Partnerships at FutureLearn The annual EDUCAUSE conference was held in October in Chicago, Illinois. As many of you know, this event is one of the big IT events in the US and covers a vast array of different themes. For me, a key benefit of EDUCAUSE is having a…
Royal Dining
Use your imagination to write the opening of a short story or poem inspired by this photo — or, tell us about a memory from your own life that this image makes you think of.Tell us in the comments, then read the related article to learn more.Want more Picture Prompts? Find them all in this…
How Much Do You Know About St. Vincent and the Grenadines?
Can you find St. Vincent and the Grenadines on a map? What else do you know about this island nation with 110,000 people?
Expanding Career Opportunities with the Google IT Support Professional Certificate
*To celebrate the program’s first full year on Coursera, new learners can launch their career in IT support with their first month of learning free. Enroll in the Google IT Support Professional Certificate today to get started. It’s been one year since the launch of the Google IT Support Professional Certificate, and thousands of learners…
How Do You Come Together With Your Community?
As pandemic restrictions ease, have you been able to gather with your community for block parties, fairs or festivals? How has it felt to come together in those ways again?In “A Big Texas Party,” Edgar Sandoval writes about Fiesta, a celebration with roots dating back to 1891 when Texas won its independence from Mexico. This…