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  • Help Students Discover Issues That Matter to Them

    NYTimes.com posted 300 Questions and Images to Inspire Argument Writing, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/learning/300-questions-and-images-to-inspire-argument-writing.html, and having used a few of the prompts I find them intriguing. Complex to work on in this pandemic, teaching virtual environment, but worthwhile to consider.

  • The Price of College

    Disclaimer: I really liked the 40 Colleges That Changed Lives and it seems to have stood my own children in good stead. This one, also from the NYTimes takes a different take on it but even the quick blurb of look at the costs differences in schools makes one realize that the decision needs care.…

  • From the NYTIMES: The Sublime and Scary Future of Cameras With A.I. Brains

    From the NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/technology/future-cameras-ai-brains.html Something strange, scary and sublime is happening to cameras, and it’s going to complicate everything you knew about pictures. Cameras are getting brains. Until the past few years, just about all cameras — whether smartphones or point-and-shoots or CCTV surveillance — were like eyes disconnected from any intelligence. They captured anything…

  • Why We ‘Hear’ Some Silent GIFs

    Does anyone in visual perception know why you can hear this gif? pic.twitter.com/mcT22Lzfkp — Lisa DeBruine ️‍ (@lisadebruine) Dec. 2, 2017 When she asked Twitter users in an unscientific survey whether they could hear the image — which actually lacks sound, like most animated GIFs — nearly 70 percent who responded said they could. Once…

  • 650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing

    This is an amazing PDF of all 650 prompts from this NYTimes article! Every school day since 2009 we’ve asked students a question based on an article in The New York Times. Now, seven years later, and in honor of the Oct. 20 National Day on Writing, we’ve collected 650 of them that invite narrative…