The Learning Network, which began as a New York Times subsite in September 1998 and became a blog in 2009, marks its 18th birthday this month.
To celebrate, we’re refreshing the site once again, with a new look and feel we hope will make it even easier for you to teach and learn with Times content.
When the new Learning Network goes live later this month, we’ll provide you with a comprehensive guide for how to navigate it. For now, however, you can continue to find all our features from last year in the same way you always have.
Until then, just four quick updates to our offerings:
- Our 2016-17 Student Contest Calendar is now live. Plan ahead now to have your students participate: last year over 18,000 teenagers from around the world took part.
- This year, we’re offering a new, more accessible feature in addition to our daily Student Opinion question. Check out the images in our new Picture Prompt collection, and look for a lesson plan on how to use it coming later this week.
- Our old News Q’s feature is now called Article of the Day, and we’ve streamlined it a bit so that students can use it on their own, or as part of a classroom lesson.
- We regret to have to tell the many students who have asked this summer, but, between our redesign and Election 2016, we don’t have the resources to run our Student Council this fall. We hope to bring it back for spring 2017.
Thank you for teaching and learning with The New York Times, and stay tuned for Learning Network 3.0.