Word of the Day: transmute
This word has appeared in 53 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Do You Multitask? Is It Helpful or Harmful?
Do you ever watch TV while you’re doing homework? Listen to a podcast or music while driving? Talk on the phone while cleaning your room? Text or scroll while hanging out with friends?If so, you’re probably familiar with the practice of multitasking — doing two (or more) things at once. Or, at least, trying to.In…
Color Love | Blush Pink
April 16, 2024 If you’re on the lookout for a perfect spring color that’s both feminine and stylish, blush pink color palette is the way to go! It looks absolutely amazing when paired with light grey and green, giving off fresh, soft, and clean vibes. I personally think it’s a perfect fit for lifestyle 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: ‘How to Develop an Appetite for Insects’
Find all our Lessons of the Day here. Lesson Overview Featured Article: “How to Develop an Appetite for Insects” Scientists who study bugs are thinking harder about how to turn them into good food. In this lesson, students explore the stigma against eating insects, plus how and why researchers think we should undo it. Warm…
Film Club: ‘A Ship From Guantánamo.’
2. After watching, think about these questions:What questions do you still have?What connections can you make between this film and your own life or experience? Why? Does this film remind you of anything else you’ve read or seen? If so, how and why?3. An additional challenge | Respond to the essential question at the top…
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Are You a Picky Eater?
A guest essayist argues that American children used to be curious and adventurous eaters. Would you be open to trying new foods and flavors?
Weekly Accessible Learning Activities: Spider Friends, ‘Firefall,’ Grief Camp
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 learn about a new species of spider, think about something amazing they’ve seen in nature, watch a film about young people dealing with grief, share how they…
Teenagers on How They Would Redesign School
Inspired by a school in the Bronx with a basketball-themed curriculum, we invited teenagers to imagine their own possibilities for what school could be like.
Learning With: ‘Need a Refresher on the War in Afghanistan? Here...
2. How did the war begin? What did the Bush administration hope to achieve? 3. Why are American troops still in Afghanistan? What are they trying to achieve now? 4. Who are the Taliban and how much control do they have in Afghanistan? 5. On Jan. 28, American and Taliban officials announced a preliminary framework…
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…
Background Patterns Guide
There are so many different background patterns out there that are fun to incorporate in web design. They can add personality and charm in places that sometimes feel empty. Many times, though, clients aren’t quite sure how to explain to their designer which pattern they would like to use. So today we wanted to share…
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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…
Introducing a New Feature: Mentor Texts
We’ve been welcoming student writers to our site for years, inviting them to post thoughts to our daily prompts, analyze multimedia compositions in our live-moderated forums, and submit formal work to our many annual contests. But there has long been a missing piece. Though we’ve provided plenty of places to practice, we’ve only occasionally published…
Word of the Day: inherent
This word has appeared in 664 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
AI’s Role in Simplifying Use Case Development
Scire responsum non significat intelligere quaestionem. Knowing the answer doesn’t mean understanding the question. I tasked that inquiry to AI, using a specific language model for learning. Why is it relevant to creating a use case and then sending it over to the reader or the person tasked with responses? They see the use case.…
How Much Have You Learned About Black History?
In “How Negro History Week Became Black History Month and Why It Matters Now,” Veronica Chambers and Jamiel Law tell the story about how Black History Month came to be:Black History Month has been celebrated in the United States for close to 100 years. But what is it, exactly, and how did it begin?In the…
Word of the Day: telltale
The word telltale has appeared in 73 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Jan. 19 in “Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.?” by Stuart A. Thompson:A.I. systems had been capable of producing photorealistic faces for years, though there were typically telltale signs that the images were not real. A.I. systems…