Does Writing Have to Be Hard?

American writing instruction has always involved some level of torture. What happens when technology makes it easy?
Education Week

Reading and Writing Like a Scientist

Allycia Uhrhan’s 6th graders at Truman Middle School in St. Louis started their field-science week collecting data on fish hatching at nearby Forest Park. But the trip really started the prior week, ...

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study suggests

Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers ...
Marketplace

The power of reading and writing as self-care

They talk about why reading and writing are so good for the soul, and about the importance of practicing creativity when funding for the arts is under attack. Maggie also reads a poem she selected ...
Fast Company

AI is changing reading, writing, and learning—here’s what that means

We hear it all the time: AI is changing the world. It’s an easy thing to say, but when the hype is this loud, it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s just noise. Experts and opportunists start to ...
The Conversation

We spent a month writing and reading in glass boxes. We read faster, wrote more – and inspired passersby

Lucy Christopher receives funding from Hobart City Council for this InsideOUT project. Fergus Edwards does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...
Quanta Magazine

The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA

DNA is often compared to a written language. The metaphor leaps out: Like letters of the alphabet, molecules (the nucleotide bases A, T, C and G, for adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine) are ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

How One Professor Demystifies Writing

I f there’s been one constant in the nearly 30 years Kerry L. Beckford has been teaching, it’s this: College students aren’t particularly excited to take a required composition course. So Beckford, a ...
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Who was the first king known to read and write?

In the ancient world, literacy was rare even among rulers. So who was the first king known to read and write? In this video, we explore early evidence of royal literacy, what it tells us about ...