If you want to write a book, start a blog. This is no longer new advice, but having just turned in the manuscript for what will be my fourth book over the last six years [i], all while I’ve been ...
Peering over my laptop, I see a few dozen nonfiction books lining the edge of my desk. Disparate in quality and content, they all have one thing in common: They want me to learn something. As an ...
For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...
If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...
Should you be concerned about the current rage for keyboards in kindergarten to replace crayons, pencils, and paper? Are you worried if your third grader can’t write or read their name in cursive?
Writing happens in every classroom and for a range of instructional purposes. When writing is used as a mechanism for processing learning, metacognition, self-reflection, and problem-solving, this is ...
Who needs a pencil and paper when we can just type or generate whatever text we need to? Actually, New Jersey students will, ...