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Going further with fragmentary details
By valuing fragments and so reducing the cognitive load on learners, you can build up underlying craft skills like selecting and combining compelling details.
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New Alberta image theme with cowboy gophers and zombie cows!
We've been corresponding with a class in Alberta who took us up on our offer of custom images based on student requests.
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Helping struggling writers by focusing on fragments
Schools value prose, but the freedom of fragments can help students observe, capture, and combine details and build a foundation for more 'complete' writing.
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New Writelike lessons: Persuading with character, emotion, & argument
How do speakers use the levers of character, emotion, and argument (or ethos, pathos, and logos) to sway an audience?
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New Dragon Images for Lunar New Year
We've created new dragon image prompts to celebrate LNY. We also won Best of 2023 in the Tech & Learning awards, and found some cool data from our archives.
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New Writelike lesson: "Persuasive Context"
Since persuasion is social, this lesson is all about learning to read the room, showing students how to evaluate the speaker, issue, audience, goal, & timing.
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New logical fallacies game prompts in Frankenstories
We've placed fallacies in a broader theme of evaluating reasoning, and made prompts students will find challenging and fun, provoking good post-game discussion.
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New Writelike lesson: "Forms of Evidence"
The next lesson in our argumentation series surveys 8 forms of evidence, such as personal experience, direct observations, statistics, and expert testimony.
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New "quality of life" features on Writelike and Frankenstories
Writelike autosaves, Frankenstories round instructions show earlier, and exporting a player's own Frankenstories responses just got a whole lot easier.
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Big new Writelike lesson: "Eight Argument Components"
The next in our argument series, this lesson explains how arguments are made of issues, claims, reasons, evidence, rebuttals, limits, assumptions, and backing.
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