Above is an image related to one of the news stories we followed this 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 current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
What do you think your generation might do better than those who came before it did?
What memories do you have of recess?
This word has appeared in four articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
This word has appeared in 55 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Ever stared blankly at your computer screen, desperately seeking blog post ideas? Writer’s block can turn blogging from a passion into a painful process. But fear not! This post is your rescue remedy. I’ll share proven tips and a series of thought-provoking questions to ignite your creativity and produce a year’s worth of engaging content. Say goodbye to forehead-slapping frustration and hello to consistent, inspiring blog posts!
Before we dive into the questions, here are some helpful tips.
To maximize your brainstorming effectiveness, carve out an uninterrupted hour dedicated solely to generating blog post ideas.
Growing a successful blog demands consistent effort and fresh content. Prioritize this brainstorming session as a crucial step in your blogging journey. If you’re juggling parenthood, schedule this time when your kids are occupied to ensure a focused environment.
I know life is busy, but investing this time in planning will significantly impact your blog’s growth and success.
In The Ultimate Blog Planner, you’ll find a page specifically designed for post brainstorming called “Post Topic Brainstorming.” I recommend printing off one of these pages for each of your main blogging categories. Then spend 5-10 minutes per category brainstorming and listing as many post topics as you can think of off the top of your head.
Just start writing. Don’t worry about whether it’s a good idea or not at this point. Jot down anything and everything that comes to you. You can weed out the not-so-great ideas later.
Let’s dive into the heart of this post: 20 questions to ignite a year’s worth of blog post ideas. As you explore each question, capture every idea that pops into your head. Before you know it, you’ll have a treasure trove of blog topics ready to be developed.
Click on the question to learn more
This should help you with post-topics brainstorming for an entire year! If you have a post you are really proud of, you can share it in the comments.
The U.S. surgeon general issued an advisory on the mental health and well-being of parents, declaring it an urgent public health issue.
This word has appeared in 792 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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We have a large catalog of courses, skill paths, and career paths to choose from — and we’re always adding new content. Courses focus on teaching you a specific programming language, like Python 3, or skill, like Deploying with Netlify and Heroku. Skill paths string together a series of courses to offer a clear path to learning everything you need to know to build a larger skill — like analyzing financial data or building a chatbot. Career paths offer a track that helps you go deeper in a domain and learn everything you need to know to get started in a specific technical career, like Data Scientist or Full-stack Engineer.
If you’re onboarding as part of Codecademy for Teams, you might need some direction to figure out which technologies and skills are the most useful for your team members. Whether you’re on a technical team or a non-technical one, you can learn something valuable from our 600+ courses.
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Check out some of the courses and Skill Paths we recommend for product teams and click through to learn more:
If you’re on a business, operations, consulting, or finance team, you’re probably aware that data is critical in driving decisions. Developing technical skills like SQL, Python, and R can help you make the most of your datasets so that you can extract valuable insights to inform business strategies.
Here are some courses that can help you build the skills to organize, analyze, and communicate your data more efficiently in your day-to-day work:
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If you’re a front-end or full-stack engineer, here’s a list of skill paths and career paths to check out:
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If you’re trying to get up to date on a specific language, library, or framework, we offer a variety of courses like Learn TypeScript, Learn Node.JS, Learn Express, Learn React, or Learn Redux.
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2) Yerkes-Dodson: Lore, not Law by Cindy Nebel and Stress and Memory by Althea Need Kaminske
This pair of posts is one of my favorites. We were taught that Yerkes-Dodson Law was, well, a law. When stress is too low or too high, performance suffers. Then Cindy discovered, not necessarily so. Friends, we were all blown away, and I think that comes across clearly in the way these posts are written!
Althea writes, “Recently, Cindy talked about how the Yerkes-Dodson Law (or performance-arousal) is less of a law and more of a nice story about how stress influences performance…This is a lot to take in. Reader, I was shocked. I was shook. I have taught this “law” as part of my classes for the last decade. I was also more than a little embarrassed and slightly horrified that I had passed on bad information to my students without question. But, one of the joys of science is being wrong! If something is important enough for me to examine and think critically about, then I have to be open to being wrong about it. As uncomfortable as it is to find out you were wrong, I ultimately believe that it’s better to care enough to find out, than to not. (The ability to be ok with being wrong is, as it turns out, an important component of critical thinking (2)). And, ultimately, this led to a series of other questions for me to investigate. One of which was “Well, then how does stress affect memory?”
