A Remote Learning Lesson from My Great Aunt Doris
A few months ago, I found an old box of papers from my grandfather’s sister. A career stenographer for most of the 20th century, my…
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The One Skill Students Need to Learn
A recent promotional blog post on Medium from the startup Tagboard promises, “6 Ways to Increase Your Interactive Storytelling in Higher Education.” Not one of…
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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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The Most Precise Word in the Dictionary
One of the ideas behind my writing course is that for every classic writing form—the sentence, the citation, the argument, the resume—there is a counterpart…
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Smartphone Cameras Improve How We See
(This is not an April Fool’s joke.) In the summer of 2014, when I started teaching The Interactive Vision, my social media photography course, as…
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Social Media is the New School Newspaper
A principal recently asked me why project-based learning should involve the Web. It’s a good question. In education, an “artifact” is not something old, but…
