Weekly Accessible Learning Activities: Truck Drivers, Basketball Heroes and Love
Each Wednesday we shine a spotlight on five student activities that support a broad range of learners. In this week’s roundup of accessible activities, we invite students to write a love poem, learn about truck drivers, watch a film about the “Queen of Basketball,” look closely at an intriguing photo and write an original story.Note:…
What Is Node.js?
If you’re considering a career as a Back-End Developer, you might’ve heard about Node.js. Node.js is an open-source, server-side runtime built on Google Chrome's V8 JavaScript Engine.Before Node.js, the programming language JavaScript could only be executed in the browser. Developers had to rely on other languages for server-side development, including Apache HTTP Server, Python, PHP,…
Explore the Tech Underlying the Metaverse and Web3 in our Intro...
It seems like every day the internet is buzzing with news and rumors about Web3, as the Metaverse, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs become more popular. But what exactly is Web3?Conceptually, Web3 is projected by many to be the next phase of the internet — a decentralized digital space based on blockchain technology that minimizes the need…
Addressing Audience: Two Book Reviews
As we explained in our piece covering the basics of review writing, not only is an “I” point of view “allowed” in cultural criticism, it is essential. Writers often directly address their audience, explaining how their own backgrounds or experiences with an artist, work, genre or topic influences their perspective. For example, this week, when…
Esther Ibanga: “Alison courses have improved my ability to develop effective...
“My name is Esther Ibanga. I’m a dedicated and focused engineer with a background in electronic and computer engineering. I have experience in Project Management, Administration, Data Analysis and Health and Safety, which I can bring to any department.” How did you learn about Alison? I learned about Alison by researching online. What was your…
Forum 1 | How Does Your Identity Inform Your Political Beliefs...
We invite you to introduce yourself and to think about when you first became aware of having political opinions. What do you think shaped them? Have they changed over time?
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Cold Calling and Classroom Discussions
The researchers found that when there were low levels of cold calling in a class, men tended to participate voluntarily more than women. When cold calling was frequently used within a class, students, both men and women, volunteered to participate more often. Further, the increase was larger for the women students than the men students.…
Dozens of Engaging Ways to Make Media Literacy Meaningful to Teenagers
Part of being media literate is asking questions of everything you read, watch and hear, including the Times sources we’re suggesting throughout this resource. All media has bias, as charts like this one or this one show, and we regularly remind students to do as this lesson plan from PBS News Hour Classroom suggests and…
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: ‘Anxious and Cooped Up, 1.5 Million Kashmiri...
Find all our Lessons of the Day here. Lesson Overview Featured Article: “Anxious and Cooped Up, 1.5 Million Kashmiri Children Are Still Out of School” After India revoked the autonomy of the Kashmir region in August, soldiers and militants have claimed the streets and most schools shuttered their doors indefinitely. In this lesson, students will…
Weekly Student News Quiz: Supreme Court, Winter Olympics, Lunar New Year
A new film adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” considered by many to be the greatest love story ever, opened on Feb. 13 starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as the tortured lovers Catherine and Heathcliff.Who is the author of the classic 19th-century novel?
Weekly News Quiz for Students: Election Results, Peace Agreement, Boy Scouts
Above is an image related to one of the news stories we followed over the past week. Do you know what it shows? At the bottom of this quiz, you’ll find the answer. Have you been paying attention to the news recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
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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…
What Students Are Saying About How Their Teachers Have Shaped Them
Teenagers share tributes to the educators who have made a difference in their lives.
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…
Introducing Coursera’s 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award Winners
Over the last 10 years, Coursera has flourished because of the passion and dedication of our partners and customers. We honor all of our partners and customers, who inspire us every day with their commitment to our shared vision of a world where anyone, anywhere, can transform their life through learning. We are delighted to…
Dog and Microphones
Use your imagination to write the opening of a short story or poem inspired by this illustration, or describe a memory from your own life that this image makes you think of.Tell us in the comments, then read the related Times Magazine article to learn more.Students 13 and older in the United States and Britain,…
5 Ideas for Machine Learning & AI Projects
Each day it seems like a new innovative AI tool comes out and alters the way we live — and that’s partly because this technology is a wellspring for creativity. You’ve probably thought up tons of potential uses for AI in your daily life, from automating mundane work tasks to using generative AI as a…