How do you honor your roots and identity? How connected are you to all of these parts? Students will read and respond to the YES! article “Native and European–How do I Honor All Parts of Myself?” by ...
It’s easy to lament student writing abilities. Alarmist complaints can be regularly read in The Chronicle, popular journalism, and books. It’s easy for teachers to take their frustration with a few ...
Dan Melzer, associate director of first-year composition at the University of California, Davis, shook up the research on teaching college-level writing in 2014 with his book Assignments Across the ...
Are you willing and brave enough to stand up against injustice? Describe what you would do, and how your actions might make a difference. Students will read and respond to Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz’s ...
Ethical considerations and academic integrity Issues of academic integrity were central to participants’ experiences. Students expressed concerns about unintentional plagiarism, the accuracy of ...
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NoRedInk, a provider of adaptive online writing curriculum used in more than 60 percent of U.S. school districts, now offers a powerful way for educators to measure ...
Claudia Alant, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student from Niskayuna, N.Y., has worked for the Writing Commons for five semesters. Since she was in high school, Alant has participated in ...
Teacher: I want you to write things that are true and accurate about the metric system that you know. [cut to Max, a sixth grade student, in interview with Dr. Mel Levine] Student: Ah, I'll remember ...
An instructional leader in a Bay Area school district told me last week that while they are a bright spot in improving reading for the last three years, they still haven’t recovered to pre-pandemic ...
A post highlighting a professor’s frustration over widespread AI-generated student writing has gone viral on social media, striking a nerve amid ongoing debates about artificial intelligence in ...
A colleague of ours recently attended an AI training where the opening slide featured a list of all the ways AI can revolutionize our classrooms. Grading was listed at the top. Sure, AI can grade ...
(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part Two, Eugenia Mora-Flores, Julia G. Thompson, Karen Sher, Bret Gosselin, Dr. Vicky Giouroukakis, and ...