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Discussions, or not? The role of interaction in learning.
Over at Across the Page Courses, I’ve released three of the four modules of my Academic Writing I course as stand-alone learning experiences. The fourth will be released soon as well. One difference…
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Internet Evolution
How “free” is the internet? “The Closing of the Internet Mind,” written by multiple authors and published at The American Mind, offers compelling evidence that however you might answer that question, you can…
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Spring Writing: Nature Journal
Outdoor activities are a great way to work on nature study and writing together. One of my favorite examples is our observation of the Cornell red tails in 2012. That was the first…
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Rereading Old Friends
I’ve been immersed in Elizabeth Goudge for months now, and I wanted to pause and reflect a bit… First, why have I been reading (and rereading) her books? And second, what attracts and…
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Letter to the American Church
Eric Metaxas’s Letter to the American Church is the first book I’ve read by this author, but his biography of Bonhoeffer is familiar to me, along with his reputation as a thorough researcher…
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The First Men in the Moon: A Reading Adventure
I read H.G. Wells’s First Men in the Moon while creating a course on C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet, the first book in Lewis’s Ransom trilogy. Lewis was a fan of…
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Is grading writing even possible?
I recently had a conversation with someone who didn’t know I was an English teacher. More accurately, I overheard a conversation in which one person said she liked writing, and the other person…
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Caught Up In a Story
I started Sarah Clarkson’s Caught Up In a Story in 2018, but I ended up setting it aside. Picking it up again recently, I found the time was right. The book reminded me…
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The Right Question
“I feel especially in the West, there is a lot more of like, ‘Oh, my God, what will happen because of this A.I.?’” Mr. Nadella said. “And it’s better to sort of really…
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