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 Problem with #WINNING
I went to a children’s robotics competition built around LEGO Mindstorms technology. Mindstorms is LEGO’s computer platform for using its bricks to build working robots.…
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The Remembering Pool
On New Year’s Eve 2002, after living and working next to Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan for 16 months, I moved out of my hard-won,…
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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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On the Significance of Days
When I was a kid, the calendar divided into average days and holidays. On holidays, there were presents and candy. Then the presents—and the holidays—lost…
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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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You Are Not A Visual Learner
You are far more intelligent than that. I wrote about how scientists disproved the hypothesis that right-brained people are creative and left-brained people are analytical.…
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Twitter Is Dead; Long Live Twitter
Here is an article I don’t need to read again: a professor or teacher polls their classroom, discovers the students don’t use a social media…
