Ask a Journalist: Making a Compelling Argument
Nicholas Kristof, an Opinion columnist, joins us in March to talk to teenagers all about opinion writing. Post your comments and questions by March 15.
How to use WordPress Categories and Tags
July 27, 2021 Whether you are new to WordPress or a seasoned veteran, you may be looking for the best way to organize your blog. We are all looking for ways to be a little more organized, right? Today, I’m going to explain the difference between categories and tags in WordPress, the two main ways…
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…
Weekly News Quiz for Students: Court Verdicts, Omicron Variant, Stephen Sondheim...
Three white men were on Nov. 24 for the pursuit and fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man. The verdict came as Americans were divided over the acquittal, a few days earlier, of Kyle Rittenhouse, who was found not guilty of homicide and other charges, and whose case ignited a national debate over…
GUEST POST: When Implementing Retrieval and Spaced Practice in the Science...
Again, I was dissatisfied in the results. I knew practice quizzes had been effective for other courses I taught, yet the correlation was not evident. I shared these data with Megan Sumeracki to see if she could give me any insight. I also had a discussion with my students, where I shared the above graphs…
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…
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Tips on Chasing the Truth
BE SPECIFIC AND PRECISE Your investigation should include names, dates, legal and financial information, on- the- record interviews, and documents. Without those ingredients an investigation will lack bite, as Judd’s 2015 interview with Variety proved, and can even do harm, as was the case with the factually flawed Rolling Stone story about sexual assault at…
What Teenagers Are Saying About Gaming
Students react to an article about whether the increasing amount of time boys spend playing video games is a problem.
Pedagogy vs. Andragogy: What’s the Difference?
References:(1) Roediger III, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning: Taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological science, 17(3), 249-255.(2) Karpicke, J. D., & Bauernschmidt, A. (2011). Spaced retrieval: absolute spacing enhances learning regardless of relative spacing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(5), 1250.(3) McDaniel, M. A., Agarwal, P. K.,…
Teachers, How Do You Handle Teaching About Information Literacy?
What has worked? What has been difficult? We’d love to hear from educators at all levels and across subject areas.
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…
How Should Students Take Notes?
References (1) Mueller, P. A., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2014). The pen is mightier than the keyboard: Advantages of longhand over laptop note taking. Psychological Science, 25, 1159-1168. (2) Bui, D. C., Myerson, J., & Hale, S. (2013). Note-taking with computers: Exploring alternative strategies for improved recall. Journal of Educational Psychology, 105, 299-309. (3) Fiorella,…
Past Stories
Should the Government Cancel Student Debt?
President Biden announced on Aug. 24 that the federal government would cancel up to $20,000 of student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans. Is debt forgiveness the right approach?
How the ZTE Blade V30 Redefines Mid-Range Smartphones with Cutting-Edge Features
In the competitive world of smartphones, the Blade ZTE stands out as a game-changer, especially with the launch of the ZTE Blade V30. With its sleek design, robust performance, and advanced features, the Blade V30 offers a compelling package at a mid-range price. Whether you’re a casual user or someone who relies heavily on their…
Recommended Learning Systems
This post covers a list of systems that I’d recommend on any given day, that based on nearly 20 years of experience in online learning, and witnessing the trends, the duds, the promises and disappoints. What it isn’t – is a list of systems based on a 15 point criterion that I use for my…
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…
What Students Are Saying About: Digital Memories, Youth Sports and Movie...
The many benefits of playing sports Every child should have to opportunity to play sports, even if the child quits after one season, at least they got the chance to play. I have been playing organized sports my whole life, playing soccer, basketball, and baseball. Sports has taught me the importance of hard work and…