New York Magazine

The Best Art Supplies, Sensory Toys, and Activities to Help Kids Learn to Write

A few weeks back, I wrote about how families can build skilled readers at home and the best books, games, and activities to help do just that. Another big part of learning to read, as I often explain ...
Education Week

Why Learning to Write by Hand Matters

As a middle school learning-resource teacher, I cannot help but notice the increasing number of students who cannot print or write in cursive legibly. At our independent K-12 school of about 1,000 ...
Opinion

AI makes college writing centers more important, not less | Opinion

Opinion: AI can generate words. College students still need to learn how to write.
Futurity News

Students learn better writing by hand

We learn much better if we take notes the old-fashioned way, by hand, and now researchers know more about why this is. “When we measure the brain activity of people who write by hand, we see that they ...
KQED

When Learning How to Write Starts Virtually, Here’s What’s Helpful to Know

This school year, kindergarteners learned how to turn on and off their web cameras and mute buttons alongside spelling and reading fundamentals. Separated by distance and screens, kindergarten ...
Santa Clara University

Writing to Learn

Writing happens in every classroom and for a range of instructional purposes. When writing is used as a mechanism for processing learning, metacognition, self-reflection, and problem-solving, this is ...
Mental Floss

Learning to Write in Cursive Might Not Be as Important as Your Teachers Told You

There is plenty of scientific evidence indicating that writing by hand is an important skill. Compared to typing, writing by hand seems to activate the brain in ways that help you process and remember ...
JSTOR Daily

Writing Centers and Learning Commons: Staying Centered While Sharing Common Ground

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. Introduction: THE POLITICS AND PEDAGOGY OF SHARING COMMON GROUND Introduction: ...
Inside Higher Ed

Learning to Write Is Hard, But It Ain't Complicated

Teaching writing ain’t complicated, but it sure is hard. The same is true from the learning to write side of the equation. There is no magic switch to be thrown where all is suddenly revealed and ...
Case Western Reserve University

Integrating Writing into Your Courses

Writing Across the Curriculum programs have demonstrated that students can gain a deeper understanding of subject-area content by writing about it. This insight is often dubbed “Writing-to-Learn” (WTL ...
Education Week

George Saunders On Learning to Write--and Writing to Learn

An indifferent student on the southside of Chicago, his only aspiration was to play in a band. It was a geology teacher that spotted his potential, and asked George to express himself in class. Joe ...
Smith College

Writing & Public Discourse

Writing about what matters. Having the courage and conviction to speak up and speak out. These are hallmarks of what it means to learn and study at Smith College, and to live a life as an engaged ...