New Year; Beta You
This January, I noticed a lot of ads, links, and email subject lines with the cliché, “New Year; New You.” The copywriters weren’t even trying.…
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The New Math is My Father’s Math
My father is an engineer. For a time, in the 1960s, he worked on the heat shield for the Apollo modules that took us to…
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The Homework We All Need To Do
Let’s think about writing for a moment. We think of writing in two ways. First, there is the writing we do everyday. The phrases that…
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Time to Hit the Power Button
The basic unit of digital communications is the bit, short for binary digit. By binary, we mean a unit of information that comes in one…
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The Darkness is Editing
Human beings can turn anything into an artform, even our demons. Like those days when you procrastinate. Let’s say you specifically set aside a day…
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Writing is a New Word
As I write in The Interactive Voice, words themselves are thesis statements. The lawyer Raphael Lemkin first developed and coined the term “genocide” in response…
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TED Talk, First Draft
I gave a TEDx talk. I didn’t expect to give one. I was nominated, made it through two selection cuts, and then received a formal…
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Authenticity is All in the Planning
The great director Orson Welles said “a poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a filmmaker an army.” That’s no longer true. When…
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To Change the World, Shut Out the World
Many of my older students take one look at the commotion on Twitter and don’t know what to think. I tell them to think of…
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Focus is Frightening
I wrote last week about using prompts to give students agency. I wrote last month about using Wikipedia positively in the classroom. When I use…
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