Word of the Day: equipoise
This word has appeared in seven articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
March’s industry round-ups
New research: Most institutions expect to be worse off, but edtech can lessen impact – surveyThe PIE, 23 MarchAccording to a flash survey from HolonIQ, the majority of education institutions expect to be worse off in the long and short term as a result of coronavirus. However, by enhancing edtech provisions they expect to lessen the…
4 Reasons to Add Codecademy to Your LinkedIn Education
There’s a new way to add Codecademy credentials to your LinkedIn profile. Now you can enter Codecademy as a school in the “Education” section of your LinkedIn profile to let people know that you learned with us. We know that there’s no one route to a technical career, and hiring trends suggest that employers are…
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…
Who Is the GOAT?
Who is the GOAT?No, not those cute animals with the horns and the beards. The Greatest of All Time.Tom Brady. Serena Williams. LeBron James. Lionel Messi. Muhammad Ali. Roger Federer. What about Novak Djokovic, who just won his 24th Grand Slam? Or is it impossible, even foolish, to say?In his essay “GOATs Are Everywhere in…
6 Free Seamless Striped Pattern Backgrounds (Part II)
August 11, 2021 Since we received so many requests for additional color choices with our last set of free seamless striped backgrounds, we thought we’d throw some more at ya! They are great to use for any digital and printable projects, so make sure to add them to your collection. The download contains striped pattern…
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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…
Weekly News Quiz for Students: Iran Missile Attack, Earthquake, College Football...
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.
GUEST POST: What 130,000 Student Questions to AI Reveal About Critical...
Our research, detailed in the report Asking to Learn, examined nearly 130,000 anonymized queries from over 8,600 students using an AI study tool embedded within a digital biology textbook often used in introductory biology courses. We focused on the "Explain" feature of the tool, which invites students to ask questions in their own words, providing…
Word + Quiz: unencumbered
unencumbered ˌən-in-ˈkəm-bərd adjective1. free of encumbrances like burdens or obstacles2. lacking obligations, cares or responsibilities_________The word unencumbered has appeared in 68 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 8 in “The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This” by Erin Griffith:For a certain kind of worker, the pandemic presented a…
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…
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Book Review: How Learning Happens (Kirschner & Hendrick)
By Carolina Kuepper-TetzelA few weeks ago, Paul Kirschner contacted us and said that he co-wrote a new book with Carl Hendrick and wondered whether we would be interested in reviewing it in form of a blog post. So, here I am now, sitting in my living room: laptop on my lap, book by my side,…
Michael McCague: “There’s great freedom in Irish music.”
Michael McCague is a guitar and bouzouki player from County Monaghan. He’s played with a variety of outstanding traditional musicians over the years, including as part of both At First Light and At The Racket. He plays a weekly session in Tigh Coili in Galway and has just finished recording an album with Hugh Healy,…
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…
Live Classroom Workshop for Students: Opinion Writing
Register for the live classroom workshop on March 10 at 1 p.m. Eastern.Can opinion writing change the world? How can your students’ voices be part of that change?We’re trying something new to kick off the 2022 Student Editorial Contest, our popular, long-running challenge that invites teenagers to take a stand and make compelling arguments on…
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…
Changing Careers During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Today’s post is going to be a little more personal. I will take you on a journey of changing careers during the COVID-19 Pandemic. I changed my career rather drastically, and by doing so changed my life drastically, and you can do the same through free online learning with Alison. Making the change is something…