If you follow the dictate that we teach what we test, it’s understandable why schools haven’t spent more time preparing students to be web literate since NCLB was passed. In 1998, a 15-year-old high ...

In my former life, I was a web application developer. I stopped doing that full-time in 2007 when I transitioned to teaching full-time. Obviously, in the intervening 16 (!) years, things have changed.

Since TNW Academy started four months ago we have received a lot of positive feedback from happy students. Most notably, Ryan Bonhardt’s course How To Build Beautiful Responsive Websites has been a ...

I get concerned when I visit a classroom teacher website that has bumblebees flying across the screen, leaves falling, scrolling ribbons of text waving about, and annoying music clips that play ...

A new series of web tutorials called “Don’t Fear the Internet” tries to teach web design to people who don’t want to be web designers. Anyone who has ever tried to build a website for the first time ...

In universities across the United States a struggle rages for the heart and soul of journalism -- and the Internet appears to be the battlefield. Web-based journalism is shaking up the academy as ...

Learning how to code in San Francisco has become as hip as learning to how to DJ or eating $4 toast. From investment bankers to artists, everyone wants to beef up a skill that now seems as necessary ...

Last week saw my return to teaching, "Web design for designers". It was a challenge and good fun, at a large "communications agency" on the outskirts of Cardiff. Strange to be in a sparkling new ...