Author: Zinkerz

  • Don’t Overlook these Five Colleges

    Don’t Overlook these Five Colleges

    What are the schools everybody applies to? I’m sure anyone reading this can name several people who wanted to attend Stanford, Harvard, Emory, and the University of Michigan. There’s a simple reason for this: they’re PHENOMENAL programs! People want to go to the best schools and get the best educations that they possibly can.  We…

  • Exploring the Potential of AI in Education: Thoughts on “Open Book, Open AI” Examinations

    Exploring the Potential of AI in Education: Thoughts on “Open Book, Open AI” Examinations

    I refuse to watch the Hamilton musical. It’s a strange rivalry to develop. The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry makes sense as Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees to finance his own play, No No Nanette (which isn’t even that good of a play), so the Red Sox have viewed the Yankee success as a…

  • ChatGPT in Education: The Debate Continues – New York City Schools Ban AI for Student Use

    ChatGPT in Education: The Debate Continues – New York City Schools Ban AI for Student Use

    Each year, around the end of December, children all around the world gather together with their families for the most anticipated event of their years: Kurtis Conner’s annual Christmas movie review video. For those who do not celebrate this event or are unaware, Kurtis Conner is Canada’s most-mustached man, the mayor of Kurtistown, and a…

  • Practical Tips for Helping Your Child With Math Without Doing It for Them

    Practical Tips for Helping Your Child With Math Without Doing It for Them

    Teaching someone math seems like it shouldn’t be that hard. In theory, you should be able to just do the math in front of them, explaining your steps along the way, and then they will be able to do it too. But in practice, it’s not that simple. It turns out that teaching math is…

  • The Importance of College Degrees

    The Importance of College Degrees

    Quick! Off the top of your head, where did Albert Einstein go to college? Was it Yale? Harvard? If you said anything other than ETH Zurich or the University of Zurich then, sorry, you’re starting off this blog 0 for 1. But that’s alright! Babe Ruth struck out in his first at-bat, and he turned…

  • SAT Success: Zinkerz Students See Remarkable Score Increases in Verbal and Math Sections

    SAT Success: Zinkerz Students See Remarkable Score Increases in Verbal and Math Sections

    Karly, the Chief Information Officer at Zinkerz, an online education company, is thrilled to reveal the results of their students’ most recent SAT examinations in December. According to reports, the verbal portion of the exam was difficult, and some students struggled with the older reading passages included in the exam. Despite this, the scores on…

  • The Impact of AI on Education and the Future of Learning

    The Impact of AI on Education and the Future of Learning

    The dramatic advances in AI and synthetic reality are taking the world by storm. Recent articles highlight the progressive nature of AI. The web is being taken over by articles entirely written by AI, advertisements, essays… you name it, and the newest AI can do it. Only a few weeks ago, this was not the…

  • Eventually, will AI take over and replace humans?

    Eventually, will AI take over and replace humans?

    How does Spotify know what music sounds like? All of our Spotify Wrapped came out earlier this week and whether your most listened to artist was Daft Punk or a good musician like Olivia Rodrigo, it makes sense that the app was able to tell the genre of music that you listened to the most.…

  • The National Report Card: Living in a post-covid academic era

    The National Report Card: Living in a post-covid academic era

    The past two weeks have been a concerning time for parents of school-aged children… And this is not specific to any grade. Whether you have a child in kindergarten or one applying to (or attending) college, you, as a parent, are hearing and reading about some alarming reports. You may even analyze specific pieces of…

  • Process or Product? Why not both?

    Process or Product? Why not both?

    Learning is a journey that has numerous steps, falters, missteps, and successes along the way. Since we are young and learn to walk, we all have experienced hurdles and roadblocks. We learn to overcome them… Or most of them. And we learn how to face challenges along the way. At some point, our focus is…