Edutopia

Sharpening Students’ Observation Skills Through Poetry

Practice with the attention to detail and language choices needed for poetry writing can help elementary students with other ...
The Dominion Post

Oh, the stories those Mon students could tell (and did): Authors-to-be shine in Young Writer’s Contest

If you can read, so goes the old adage in education, you can learn. Teachers love to impart that. Get an English teacher into ...
The Washington Post

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better?

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...
Polygon

Brandon Sanderson shares writing tips to stay productive, professional, and 'progress-motivated'

January is traditionally a month for starting projects, trying new things, and working to break bad habits — particularly anything that gets in the way of self-improvement or productivity. Polygon ...
The Guardian

Dreaming of writing your novel this year? Rip up all the rules!

After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you know… I don’t think it’s a bad thing to want to write a first sentence so ...
Psychology Today

The Write Situation: How Writing Letters Helped Me Heal

Source: Caroline Leavitt It started young for me. I didn’t really have anyone to talk with. My father was a sulky, silent brute and I couldn’t risk getting yelled at or hit by speaking up. My mother ...
Tom's Guide

How to use ChatGPT to write — without cheating or getting flagged

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Entrepreneur

Letting AI Write for You Can Be Dangerous — Here’s Why

Every single step of an entrepreneurial journey happens through some form of writing — from early pitches to later marketing campaigns, from contracts to plans. The academic phrase for this is: ...
New York Post

6 in 10 teachers use AI to grade papers, write lessons — but say it’s making their students stop thinking

For her 6th grade honors class, math teacher Ana Sepúlveda wanted to make geometry fun. She figured her students “who live and breathe soccer” would be interested to learn how mathematical concepts ...
Education Week

How AI Helps Our Students Deepen Their Writing (Yes, Really)

Corrected: A word was misspelled in the title of the book co-authored by Magliozzi and Peterson. The correct title is AI in the Writing Workshop: Finding the Write Balance. Since ChatGPT’s release, we ...
New York Post

Teacher smears peanut butter all over herself in class — and it’s actually a brilliant lesson

An elementary school teacher smartly used food to teach her students a lesson. Kayleigh Sloan teaches a creative writing class to first and second-graders. To teach a valuable lesson about where the ...