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In this video I walk you through how I use a bump up wall to grow kindergarten and first grade writers. I show the rubric, the zero to five writing samples, and how I coach students to “bump up” their ...

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Veteran teacher Jen Roberts explains why generative tools are more than just a platform for cheating—they’re a way to make ...

On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plugin for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the AI model to stop writing like an AI model. Called “Humanizer,” the ...

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Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston ...