Month: December 2017
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How to Teach Creativity
Have you ever graded a stack of papers that felt like a record stuck on the same verse? The kind of stack where each paper looks strikingly similar to the one before and after it and nearly all of them parrot the major themes discussed in class? Early in my career, this sort of thing was…
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Chasing a Unicorn Part I: How to cut down grading time without sacrificing quality
If I was a member of the American Dialect Society, my vote for Word of the Year would be the word unicorn. The word, long monopolized by the six and under, My Little Pony set, has undergone a renaissance and suddenly appeared in the vernacular of almost everyone (student and adult alike) I know with a…
Matthew M. Johnson 