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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Prompts are the New Assignment
My family loves Harry Potter. Our oldest borrowed more books from her school library last year than anyone else in the building, but Hogwarts is…
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Your Audience is Not Like You
This thesis keeps occurring to me and I need to give it a draft or two. It’s a variation on the cliché that you shouldn’t…
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Rebuild the Resume, LinkedIn
Each week, my writing course The Interactive Voice reevaluates classic writing forms, contrasts newer online models, and critiques specific student examples. In the third week,…
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Take the Critique, Not to Heart
The final assignment for my writing class is a comprehensive article built from everything we practice over the semester—plus a publishing plan. I tell students…
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An Open Letter to Jack
Dear Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter, On March 1st, you outlined the challenges and anger facing your platform. We’re committing Twitter to help…
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Small Voices Rule the Web
It’s the Fourth of July again. It’s almost a quarter-millennium since the founders built our nation on word and argument. The Internet, our latest test…
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In Defense of Wikipedia
Each week, I give my interactive communication students a theme focusing on a key element of the Web and that element’s influence on our culture.…
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Smartphones Don’t Create Our Anxiety
Some sentences just stick with you. I never forgot the following quote from an assigned reading in college. Years later, I would discover the author…
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