Word of the Day: specious
This word has appeared in 32 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Could You Spend Three Hours Looking at Just One Work of...
That’s an assignment a Harvard professor gives her students. Would you try it? If so, what artwork would you choose?
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 to Build a Daily Learning Habit (And Actually Stick to...
We all want to learn more, grow faster, and keep upskilling. But let’s be honest, building a consistent learning habit is tough. Life gets busy, motivation dips, and that TV show you’ve been binge-watching always seems to win. There’s good news, though. Building a daily learning habit doesn’t have to be hard. In fact, with…
Picture Prompts: An Invitation to Write
Four short, image-driven prompts that invite students to try different kinds of writing.
‘The Authoritarian Playbook Is Always the Same’: The Week 1 Winner...
Alexander M., 16, writes about his experiences growing up in Russia “as Putin’s tyranny strengthened” — and the lesson he took away.
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Retrieval Mapping
While concept mapping is popular, some research has shown that creating concept maps, when students have the material in front of them, is not as effective as retrieval practice (1). Other scholars have noted that it takes time to teach students to make concept maps in order for their use to be effective at enhancing…
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 Does a Business Analyst Do?
You might not immediately associate business analysis with the tech world, but Business Analysts actually play key roles in the Information Technology (IT) industry. Because they use data to help guide businesses in improving their processes, products, and services, Business Analysts can be crucial to companies and their growth.Unlike Data Analysts, who work more closely…
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Guide to choose Online Courses & Course provider [2018]
Online courses are, without a doubt, provides a great opportunity to learn anything, anywhere & anytime. There are plenty of course providers like Udemy, edX, Coursera, Udacity, Linux Foundation, FutureLearn, Skillshare, etc… As the number of these provider grow, so is confusion on which one to choose, here is a simple guide on how to…
Have You Ever Read a Book You Weren’t Supposed to Read?
It’s Banned Books Week in the United States, which, according to the American Library Association, is an annual event that celebrates “the freedom to read” and “spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.” Have your parents, teachers or school administrators ever forbidden you from reading a book because they thought…
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What’s Going On in This Graph? | Oct. 25, 2023
Whether consumers purchase electric vehicles to save money on gas and maintenance, reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses, create high-paying jobs or drive a stylish car with a nearly silent engine, the increase in their rate of popularity is very impressive. Some have described the worldwide growth of the number of electric automobiles, trucks and…
Can You Guess the Country? A Geography Photo Quiz for Students.
Test your geography knowledge using photographs from around the world.
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…
Do You Keep a Journal?
Do you have a journal or diary? If so, what do you like to write about in it and why? Do you use it to keep track of joyful, difficult or memorable events in your life? Do you use it to process feelings? Give gratitude? Practice self-care? Do something else?If you don’t journal, have you…
Are Your Classroom Decorations Reducing Learning?
MethodsEach participant in the study was asked to come to a classroom in the computer science building on campus for a study in partnership with the Career Center about interest in STEM majors. The classroom contained either the stereotypical or non-stereotypical items and participants were told to ignore those items because the room was being…
A Quick-Start Guide to Teaching from Home by Andrew Ng
A guide for educators to transition from teaching in the classroom to teaching online with minimal planning and effort. Recent events have accelerated digital transformation in higher education, requiring educators to quickly shift from teaching live in classrooms to teaching online in their living rooms in the span of weeks. Redesigning an in-person class into…