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Creative Approaches for Developing Essay Writing Skills

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Exploring diverse writing exercises, experimenting with different perspectives, and seeking inspiration from various sources can cultivate creativity and enhance essay writing skills, with the option to have professionals write me an essay providing valuable insights and further honing one’s craft. Start small.

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Meet The Newest Liberal Art: Coding

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To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware.

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What All High Schools Can Draw From Career and Technical Education Programs

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My students enjoyed it so much that since then, we have participated in several including a one-pager challenge where students respond to a New York Times story, a contest where students submit an original podcast and a contest where students can share opinion essays on issues they care deeply about.

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How to Weave Advisory into Academics — Plus 10 Resources for Teaching SEL

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Life is interdisciplinary, and while our education system has finally started to acknowledge this (e.g. Here’s how it might work for an English teacher: Imagine you’ve assigned students a persuasive essay and provided them with a rubric communicating academic expectations. In “the real world” as teachers say, challenges are complex.

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Will Online Learning Lead to College Closures? Clay Shirky Says It’s Complicated.

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About once a month, he puts out a new essay about the many complex forces acting on higher ed these days—highlighting some ways true transformation is happening. To help steer the discussion, Shirky started a newsletter last year called “ The (Continual) Transformation of Higher Ed.” They cut the number of majors from 33 to 17.

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Inspiring… or not

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Writing 5-paragraph essays about books that we don’t care about is not. Interdisciplinary learning that is seen by students as meaningful, authentic, and connected to the real world is inspiring. Regurgitating decontextualized historical names, dates, and places is not. Using technology to complete digital worksheets is not.

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Student Push Back Is Frustrating, but It Made Me a Better Teacher

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We were given freedom to implement non-traditional practices such as design thinking, while maintaining those that are tried and true like document-based essay writing. Today, I am the STEAM Interdisciplinary Specialist at the Atlanta Girls’ School, where I’ve applied many of the lessons I learned from Anya and her Big History project.

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