Why Codecademy is overrated and missing its target audience. Let’s just make this quite clear to begin with: I believe Codecademy has great potential.
I really want to see it succeed, because I can see there is an identified gap where Codecademy fits, and a lot of people can benefit from using the site. However, after spending some time ‘learning’ (or trying to learn) JavaScript on Codecademy, I experienced some fundamental issues which I believe are holding it back. To Attract More Girls to STEM, Bring More Storytelling to Science. A student from High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey CREDIT: Marissa Hazel Guest Post by Jonathan Olsen and Sarah Gross, teachers at High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey Women and girls are historically underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields and much has been written lately about why girls in school seem disinterested in these areas.
As STEM becomes more important in our increasingly interconnected global society, it becomes even more imperative that educators find ways to encourage girls to participate in these fields. A few weeks ago, researchers at the Universities of Pittsburgh and Michigan released the results of a study that reflected many girls’ antipathy toward all things STEM. As educators in a STEM-focused high school, we come in contact with intellectually gifted female scientists every day–albeit young ones.
Research has shown that storytelling activates the brain beyond mere word recognition. The $849,000 Disadvantage for Being Female. Sundance Institute and Women in Film Release Unprecedented Study on Women Directors. From L-R Cathy Shulman, Keri Putman, Stacy Smith This morning, here in Sundance, a new ground breaking study of women directors "Exploring the Barriers and Opportunities for Independent Women Filmmakers" was released.
The study is the most comprehensive look to date examining the gender disparity women directors face in the film industry. We all know that things are not equal, but never before has a study been done that tracks the career trajectories of women directors as well as writers, producers, cinematographers and editors. The research was conducted by Stacy L. Smith, Ph.D., Katherine Pieper, Ph.D. and Marc Choueiti at Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California. Digital Network.
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Okay, teach me how to party: If I wanted to invite a few people over for a low-key thing, say, four days from now, is it too late to send invites? A low key thing with a few friends? If you're worried people will be too busy and you don’t give the standard 2-3 week warning, start your party early, say 5 p.m., so you'll likely get people popping by on their way somewhere else. Tiny apartment (i.e. studio) entertaining — thoughts/tricks/max number of invitees?
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Here are some benchmarks that you can use based on very broad/aggregated targeting and campaign types. There are outliers well above the “Optimal Range” but most advertisers cannot achieve them due to their various constraints. Optimal CTR: 0.11%-0.16%Above Avg CTR: 0.07%-0.09%Average CTR: 0.04%-0.05%Below Avg CTR: 0.02%-0.03%Poor CTR: 0.01% It depends – what do you consider good? I find that with an 0.08 – 0.12 CTR you can get lots of cheap traffic that converts well. Blogs. Susan Crawford. "Non-traditional" content strategy. Social media demographics 2012: 24 sites including Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Connect with leaders from the companies in this story, in real life: Come to the fourth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit April 14-15 in Sausalito, Calif.
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Google's Fight to Kill Search by 2020. Top 20 Social Networks. This infographic from Silverpop takes a look at the major players in social media – including those lucky enough to find themselves in the 100+ million user club – and provides some key statistics and growth data for twenty different channels.
Aside from the global leaders, Asian social networking sites such as Weibo, RenRen and Badoo are not being left behind when it comes to the total number of userbase. New ‘Digital Divide’ Seen in Wasting Time Online. Those efforts have indeed shrunk the divide.
But they have created an unintended side effect, one that is surprising and troubling to researchers and policy makers and that the government now wants to fix. As access to devices has spread, children in poorer families are spending considerably more time than children from more well-off families using their television and gadgets to watch shows and videos, play games and connect on social networking sites, studies show.
This growing time-wasting gap, policy makers and researchers say, is more a reflection of the ability of parents to monitor and limit how children use technology than of access to it.