Why Moe Obeidat Chose Pitt’s Online Master of Data Science
Moe Obeidat knows data. Based in the Chicago area, he works as a data analyst at a Fortune 500 company, where reporting, visualization, and SQL are part of his everyday toolkit. But like many working professionals in the field, Moe was eager to take the next step: moving from analysis into advanced roles in data…
What’s Going On in This Graph? | Feb. 24, 2021
Note: We will not be hosting a live-moderated “What’s Going On in This Picture?” discussion on Feb. 17. These graphs show the air quality for twelve major world cities from November 2018 to November 2019. The key for the amount of air pollution uses both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s air quality index and the…
Digest #138: Fostering Self-Regulated Learning in Students
5) Ace Your Self-Study App by University of Leiden, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Delft University of Technology At EARLI I was introduced to this promising app, Ace Your Self-Study. This app lets students schedule and log their study sessions. Students can track how and for how long they have been studying. In addition, it provides…
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…
Red Words
What do you think this illustration is communicating? How does it relate to or comment on society or current events? Can you relate to it personally? What is your opinion of its message?Tell us in the comments, and then read the related article to learn more.Students 13 and older in the United States and Britain,…
How Do You Deal With Boredom?
How do you deal with boredom? Has your approach changed over time? What have the adults in your life taught you about managing boredom? In the Opinion essay “Let Children Get Bored Again,” Pamela Paul writes, “Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency.” She continues:…
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Learning With: ‘Michael Cohen Accuses Trump of Expansive Pattern of Lies...
Before reading the article: Michael D. Cohen, the former lawyer and fixer for President Donald J. Trump, took the stand on Feb. 27 to testify publicly against Mr. Trump before the House Oversight Committee. Did you watch the hearing? If not, watch the video above to view some of the key moments. (If you want…
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…
MOTHER’S DAY AND FATHER’S DAY
I recently received an email from one of my coworkers wishing me a happy mothers’ day; I recall wishing my mother a happy mothers’ day the previous month; this got me thinking about how many times in a year we celebrate women’s and mothers’ days. Most of the time, I don’t remember the dates until…
Maximising Success with Email Marketing: A Guide for Affiliate Marketers
Everything has gone digital, including entrepreneurship. Affiliate marketing is one of the leading strategies that businesses and individuals, social media influencers, and ordinary citizens use to monetise their online following and presence. A growing technique affiliate marketers use to increase their earnings is email marketing. Email marketing is an effective marketing technique and serves as…
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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What Green, Yellow and Red Flags Do You Look For When...
What behaviors or actions from a potential partner tell you to go ahead, slow down or hit the brakes?
Making an Argument Via Descriptive Detail: Music Reviews
Now read something written by a student. In her 2018 winning entry, Isabella Levine reviews “Anthem of the Peaceful Army,” the debut album by the rock band Greta Van Fleet. Here’s the sentence at the end of the first paragraph that best captures her opinion of the album: The seeds of a potential rock revival…
Choosing a Career That is Right For You
Choosing a career that is right for you is no small task, whether you are just starting out with your professional career, looking for a change or returning to work after being away. Today, we will explore how you can go about choosing the right career for yourself. With so many options to choose from,…
Film Club: ‘Go Behind the Scenes of All 10 Best Picture...
“My name is Greta Gerwig, and I am the co-writer and director of ‘Barbie.’” “(SINGING) I’m just Ken. Anywhere else, I’d be a ten.” “The thing that I can say most about this sequence is that this was the thing that I most knew what I wanted it to be, and no one else knew…
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…