{"id":12210,"date":"2019-06-19T11:39:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/?p=12210"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:02:08","slug":"students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Will Soon Be Able to Ask Alexa for Help with the ACT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This weekend, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) will begin their annual conference in Philadelphia. ACT, the creators of their flagship standardized test, will be hosting a booth showcasing their latest service: test info and study tools accessed via Amazon\u2019s Alexa voice assistant. By integrating ACT Academy, the organization\u2019s free test prep courseware, with Alexa, students will soon be able get info about the test, set study times, reminders on fields where they need to focus, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>ACT Debuts Their Alexa Skill<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Amazon\u2019s voice assistant Alexa can be reached via their Echo Dot devices. The integration is the latest effort from ACTNext, ACT&#8217;s research arm. After debuting at ISTE, the service will be beta-tested and released to the public later this year. (ISTE attendees will be able to sign up to be beta testers at ACT\u2019s booth.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe skill will feature a voice-based AI-assistant, bringing information about the ACT test and personalized guidance to students and parents directly into the comfort of their homes in sync with the digitalized world they are used to,\u201d said Dr. Alina von Davier, ACT senior vice president for ACTNext, in a news release. \u201cWe are very excited to bring this innovative new service to Alexa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Many edtech companies and organizations have begun to offer Alexa integrations in one form or another. Instructure debuted an Alexa <a href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/amazons-alexa-your-next-teacher\/\">pairing at their annual conference<\/a>, InstructureCon, in 2017, allowing learners to access information from the Canvas learning management system (LMS) via voice. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Northeastern University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Arizona State University (ASU), <a href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/arizona-state-university-giving-students-echo-dots\/\">brought Echo Dots to campus and residencies in 2017<\/a>. The intent was to test out applications for student use and also gather data about their behavior. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, ASU has been supporting use and development of the Echo Dots more generally. They held an AI Scholars hackathon last November for students to develop uses of the voice assistant technology. One finalist also applied the devices to help students study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Parker Poole, a member of the Team Okay Google, which developed the study aid, <a href=\"https:\/\/asunow.asu.edu\/20181107-ai-scholars-create-voice-activated-tech-global-good\">told <\/a><i>ASU Now, <\/i>\u201cIt\u2019s especially useful for students with attention problems. You turn off all of your electronics and rely on Alexa to notify you at the end of your scheduled study interval and you take a break for five minutes. It\u2019s better than using a phone timer because you aren\u2019t distracted by playing a game or checking your messages.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Others, meanwhile, have also developed voice assistants for uses relating to education. <i>American Libraries Magazine <\/i>this month <a href=\"https:\/\/americanlibrariesmagazine.org\/2019\/06\/03\/voice-assistants-your-library-needs-to-speak-to-you\/\"><span class=\"s2\">told the story<\/span><\/a> of Paige, a voice assistant developed for library use. Paige was created by Cynthia Sandler, a library media specialist at North Salem Middle School and High School in Westchester County, NY. Sandler also programmed it to tell jokes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The Integration Goes Forward Despite Pending Lawsuits<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">The ACT integration may meet some headwinds with their upcoming product launch. This month, a lawsuit was filed in federal court in Seattle on behalf of a 10-year-old Massachusetts girl against Amazon, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/amazon\/suit-alleges-amazons-alexa-violates-laws-by-recording-childrens-voices-without-consent\/\">reported by the <em>Seattle Times<\/em><\/a>. The suit alleges that Alexa and Echo Dots records and \u2018voiceprints\u2019 minors without parental consent. A similar lawsuit was filed on behalf of an 8-year-old boy in Los Angeles federal court the next day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">The suit comes on the back of Amazon\u2019s launch of their latest generation of Echo Dots, which are marketed for use by kids.<\/span>ACT test takers will certainly be older than 8 and 10, but many will still be underage.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Image: Andres Urena, Unsplash.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) will begin their annual conference in Philadelphia. ACT, the creators of their flagship standardized test, will be hosting a booth showcasing their latest service: test info and study tools accessed via Amazon\u2019s Alexa voice assistant. By integrating ACT Academy, the organization\u2019s free test prep courseware, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,17536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-industry-news","category-k-12"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Students Will Soon Be Able to Ask Alexa for Help with the ACT - eLearningInside News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By integrating ACT Academy, the organization\u2019s free test prep courseware, with Alexa, students will soon be able get info about the test, set study times, get reminders, and more.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Students Will Soon Be Able to Ask Alexa for Help with the ACT - eLearningInside News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By integrating ACT Academy, the organization\u2019s free test prep courseware, with Alexa, students will soon be able get info about the test, set study times, get reminders, and more.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLearningInside News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/elearninginside\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-19T15:39:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-06-22T15:02:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/andres-urena-470132-unsplash-e1560958416465.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Henry Kronk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@henry_kronk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@elearninginside\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Henry Kronk\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Henry Kronk\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1e85c04cd7c6505413ccb5e4cc7a72f7\"},\"headline\":\"Students Will Soon Be Able to Ask Alexa for Help with the ACT\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-19T15:39:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-22T15:02:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":600,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/andres-urena-470132-unsplash-e1560958416465.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Articles\",\"Industry News\",\"K-12\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\\\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2019\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\\\/\",\"name\":\"Students Will Soon Be Able to Ask Alexa for Help with the ACT - eLearningInside News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/andres-urena-470132-unsplash-e1560958416465.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-19T15:39:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-22T15:02:08+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1e85c04cd7c6505413ccb5e4cc7a72f7\"},\"description\":\"By integrating ACT Academy, the organization\u2019s free test prep courseware, with Alexa, students will soon be able get info about the test, set study times, get reminders, and more.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/andres-urena-470132-unsplash-e1560958416465.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/andres-urena-470132-unsplash-e1560958416465.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":675,\"caption\":\"an Amazon Echo Dot sits on top of a pile of books\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Students Will Soon Be Able to Ask Alexa for Help with the ACT\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"eLearningInside News\",\"description\":\"News for eLearning\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1e85c04cd7c6505413ccb5e4cc7a72f7\",\"name\":\"Henry Kronk\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/6a8612979c6e9de062dc2b2761d5b8590a1093c981318be765d6398dba5243c1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/6a8612979c6e9de062dc2b2761d5b8590a1093c981318be765d6398dba5243c1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/6a8612979c6e9de062dc2b2761d5b8590a1093c981318be765d6398dba5243c1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Henry Kronk\"},\"description\":\"Henry Kronk began his writing career as an intern at The Burlington Free Press in Burlington, Vermont, his hometown. After studying English at McGill University in Montreal, he went to work full time as a freelancer while living abroad in countries such as Greece, New Zealand, and Vietnam. His journalism has been published by CKUT 90.3 FM, Montreal Rampage, Potent, and HNGN. He has also produced a series of audio interviews concerning Canadian poetry for Vallum: Contemporary Poetry. His latest work is Code Burst, a podcast that investigates a free coding bootcamp in the Appalachian region of the U.S. that seeks to retrain ex-coal miners for jobs in the tech industry, along with the promise learning to code offers more broadly. Email: henry@elearninginside.com\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/henry_kronk\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.elearninginside.com\\\/author\\\/henry\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Students Will Soon Be Able to Ask Alexa for Help with the ACT - eLearningInside News","description":"By integrating ACT Academy, the organization\u2019s free test prep courseware, with Alexa, students will soon be able get info about the test, set study times, get reminders, and more.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Students Will Soon Be Able to Ask Alexa for Help with the ACT - eLearningInside News","og_description":"By integrating ACT Academy, the organization\u2019s free test prep courseware, with Alexa, students will soon be able get info about the test, set study times, get reminders, and more.","og_url":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/","og_site_name":"eLearningInside News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/elearninginside\/","article_published_time":"2019-06-19T15:39:02+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-06-22T15:02:08+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/andres-urena-470132-unsplash-e1560958416465.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Henry Kronk","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@henry_kronk","twitter_site":"@elearninginside","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Henry Kronk","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/"},"author":{"name":"Henry Kronk","@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1e85c04cd7c6505413ccb5e4cc7a72f7"},"headline":"Students Will Soon Be Able to Ask Alexa for Help with the ACT","datePublished":"2019-06-19T15:39:02+00:00","dateModified":"2019-06-22T15:02:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/"},"wordCount":600,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/andres-urena-470132-unsplash-e1560958416465.jpg","articleSection":["Articles","Industry News","K-12"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2019","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/","url":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/","name":"Students Will Soon Be Able to Ask Alexa for Help with the ACT - eLearningInside News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/andres-urena-470132-unsplash-e1560958416465.jpg","datePublished":"2019-06-19T15:39:02+00:00","dateModified":"2019-06-22T15:02:08+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1e85c04cd7c6505413ccb5e4cc7a72f7"},"description":"By integrating ACT Academy, the organization\u2019s free test prep courseware, with Alexa, students will soon be able get info about the test, set study times, get reminders, and more.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/andres-urena-470132-unsplash-e1560958416465.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/andres-urena-470132-unsplash-e1560958416465.jpg","width":1200,"height":675,"caption":"an Amazon Echo Dot sits on top of a pile of books"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/students-will-soon-be-able-to-ask-alexa-for-help-with-the-act\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Students Will Soon Be Able to Ask Alexa for Help with the ACT"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/","name":"eLearningInside News","description":"News for eLearning","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1e85c04cd7c6505413ccb5e4cc7a72f7","name":"Henry Kronk","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6a8612979c6e9de062dc2b2761d5b8590a1093c981318be765d6398dba5243c1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6a8612979c6e9de062dc2b2761d5b8590a1093c981318be765d6398dba5243c1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6a8612979c6e9de062dc2b2761d5b8590a1093c981318be765d6398dba5243c1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Henry Kronk"},"description":"Henry Kronk began his writing career as an intern at The Burlington Free Press in Burlington, Vermont, his hometown. After studying English at McGill University in Montreal, he went to work full time as a freelancer while living abroad in countries such as Greece, New Zealand, and Vietnam. His journalism has been published by CKUT 90.3 FM, Montreal Rampage, Potent, and HNGN. He has also produced a series of audio interviews concerning Canadian poetry for Vallum: Contemporary Poetry. His latest work is Code Burst, a podcast that investigates a free coding bootcamp in the Appalachian region of the U.S. that seeks to retrain ex-coal miners for jobs in the tech industry, along with the promise learning to code offers more broadly. Email: henry@elearninginside.com","sameAs":["https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com","https:\/\/x.com\/henry_kronk"],"url":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/author\/henry\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12498,"href":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210\/revisions\/12498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}