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…
Can I Add Alison Certificates to My LinkedIn Profile?
If you’ve completed an Alison course, you may be wondering if you can add it to your LinkedIn profile. The short answer? Yes, you can – and you absolutely should. Including your Alison courses and Certificates on LinkedIn is a smart and simple way to showcase your skills, highlight your dedication to continuous learning, and…
Word + Quiz: appliqué
appliqué ˌa-plə-ˈkā noun and verb noun: a decorative design made of one material sewn over another verb: sew on as a decoration _________ The word appliqué has appeared in 36 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 5 in “In Ireland, Making Lace for the Love of It” by Sandra…
Is your vote really in your hands?
In the days of old, it was that ‘personal touch’ that would make or break a political campaign. Politicians would spend their time posing for photos, making speeches on construction sites, and cuddling the babies of strangers. But with the abundance of personal data, ripe for exploitation, no longer do politicians need to rely on…
Presidents Can Declare Emergencies. How Much Power Should That Give Them?
President Trump has declared 10 emergencies since being back in office. Legal experts are asking: Are these declarations justified, or is he using them to gain more power?
Experiences of Timorese language teachers in a blended MOOC for CPD
Monty King, Partnership Manager at FutureLearn has had a paper published detailing the experiences of a group of Timorese English language teachers from Lorosa’e English Language Institute (LELI) in Dili, Timor-Leste, who participated in a professional development MOOC entitled Teaching for Success: Lessons and Teaching between March and April 2017. Drawing on the pedagogical principles…
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Lesson Plan: The Mississippi Water Crisis and What It Means for...
In this lesson, students will learn how more than 150,000 people were without safe, reliable drinking water for weeks and how climate change has emerged as a growing threat to water systems across the country.
Word of the Day: emporium
The word emporium has appeared in 45 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 10 in “How the Impressionists Became the World’s Favorite Painters, and the Most Misunderstood” by Jason Farago:Look at picture No. 107 in the exhibition of 1874: another of Morisot’s lugubrious bourgeois bachelorettes.Her model is on vacation in Brittany,…
Word of the Day: emphatic
This word has appeared in 123 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Lesson of the Day: ‘How Language Classes Are Moving Past the...
Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “How Language Classes Are Moving Past the Gender Binary” by Molly LipsonMany languages, including Hebrew, French, Spanish, Italian and Arabic, use binary pronouns, such as he/she and male/female, which means that other gender identities are not formally acknowledged in those languages.In this lesson, you will learn about teachers who are finding ways…
The Winners of Our Fifth Annual Review Contest for High Schoolers
Her powerhouse pipes were on full display with the title track of her album, “Cuz I Love You.” She held nothing back, and her voice was just as powerful, if not more so than on her studio tracks, and while she belted perfect high notes, she danced. And it wasn’t merely a little toe tapping…
Price Tags
When you have some extra cash, what do you like to buy? Do you spend it on things you need, indulgences or experiences? Why? Tell us in the comments, then read the related article to find out what you should spend your money on to get the most bang for your buck. Find many more…
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Three Dots
What story could this image tell? Tell us about a memory from your own life that this illustration makes you think of — or use your imagination to write the opening of a short story or poem inspired by it. Then, read the related piece by this year’s winner of the Modern Love college essay…
Word of the Day: corroboration
The word corroboration has appeared in 24 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on June 3 in “A New Search for Ripples in Space From the Beginning of Time” by Kenneth Chang:A new $110 million observatory in the high desert of northern Chile, $90 million financed by the foundation, could uncover key clues…
Would You Buy an NFT?
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Do you know what a nonfungible token, or NFT, is? Shira Ovide explains in the On Tech newsletter “NFTs Are Neither Miracles nor Scams”:Allow me to explain to normal humans what’s happening: NFTs are essentially a way…
2021 Turkey Awards
What is a turkey? Well, besides a bird, I think most of us think of a bad product or service or in our case, system or solution. And yes, you are totally correct. For me, I toss in some terms that need to go or be stopped in their tracks before confusion does more to…
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…