Celebrate International Youth Day With These Great Beginner Courses!
August 12th is International Youth Day. Designated by the United Nations over 20 years ago, the day celebrates the voice of global youth and draws attention to issues affecting young people around the world. The day also serves as an opportunity to engage with the specific challenges facing young people and offer support for their…
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…
Valentine’s Day Maze Free Printable
This year’s class Valentine card idea is a-MAZE-ingly fun and candy free! The free printable includes four Valentines per sheet. We recommend printing them on colored 8.5×11 cardstock. You can attach mini pencils or crayons or send as is! We ordered the turquoise mini pencils with one-day shipping here. For Personal Use Only. Free – Checkout Checkout…
The Perfect Playlist
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.What is your current favorite playlist? Did you make it, or did someone else? Do you like making playlists for different occasions? What tips would you share for how to make a playlist that hits just right,…
What Students Are Saying About Improving School Lunch, ‘#Megxit’ and Emoji...
Fresh and healthy foodI do think it is better for students to “discover what they love to eat” instead of adults at their school “telling them what they should eat.” When I was in elementary school, I would see my friends grab an apple or some type of vegetable because it was mandatory. At the…
Lesson of the Day: ‘5 Key Things in the $2 Trillion...
Going FurtherThough the Senate unanimously passed the bill, some lawmakers had criticisms of it. The Times reports: In the final measure, most Republicans agreed to Democrats’ demands for a substantial expansion of jobless benefits, including $600 extra per week on top of the usual amount provided by states.On Wednesday afternoon, four Republican senators said they…
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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’s Going On in This Picture? | April 29, 2024
1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions:2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post…
Meet Ali, a Coursera Learner in Syria Who’s Using His New...
We want to introduce you to Ali. He lives in Syria, where he originally studied agricultural engineering. After he graduated, he entered a master’s program for animal production, and he’s currently writing his master’s thesis. Simultaneously, he began learning data science skills on Coursera, made possible with a paid subscription from the Syrian Youth Assembly.…
Benefits of an Organisation Providing Training
You want your organisation to be the best that it can be. And to be the best, means you need to have the best team driving your organisation and its operations forward. One of the ways to get the most out of your employees is to give them access to training that will improve their…
Word + Quiz: per se
per se (ˌ)pər-ˈsā, per-ˈsā, (ˌ)pər-ˈsē adverb : with respect to its inherent nature _________ The term per se has appeared in 139 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 8 in “U.S. Women’s Team Takes a Stand as Gender Disparities Remain Widespread” by Marc Tracy, Karen Crouse and Matthew Futterman:…
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Digest #184: Arts for Learning and Wellbeing in Education
Cover image by Kampus Production on PexelsBy Carolina Kuepper-TetzelRecently, I have become interested in the impact of engaging in art on learning and wellbeing. This interest has sent me into a rabbit hole of fascinating research and has sparked new ideas for my own teaching practice. In today’s digest, I’m sharing resources around this topic.…
Film Club: ‘A Toast to Raising Alcohol Taxes’
“A Toast to Raising Alcohol Taxes” is a five-minute Opinion video addressing the quiet drug epidemic facing our nation — excessive drinking. “Imagine a way,” the Times filmmakers ask, “to drastically cut the number of deaths on America’s roads, to spare many from fatal disease, something that could reduce violence and even unwanted pregnancies.” The…
“Dreamy Elopements in California: Expert Photography Services for Your Special Day”
With destination elopements and elopement-style weddings gaining in popularity, there is a shift from traditional weddings to smaller, more intimate and stress-free ways to celebrate a commitment of love. Best Elopement Locations in California Rectangle in which to tie the knot there because it is the best place. escape to California for so many reasons…
An Editor’s Yearbook Tells a Tale of Race in New York’s...
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Movies about American high schools usually portray a micro-society ruled by football players, the wildly popular kings of the hallways. The cheerleaders are blond, pretty-but-bubbly ditzes; the “all-American” look is usually Anglo-Saxon, with Asian, black…
EAIE and the role of online in student mobility initiatives
Author: Amy Shackleton, Senior Partnership Development Manager at FutureLearn FutureLearn was pleased to send a delegate to the 31st conference of the European Association of International Education, which took place in Helsinki in late September. Attendance was at a record-breaking high – 6,200 delegates attended from over 90 countries. EAIE’s annual conference is a huge…
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…