por Ersun Warncke | Nov 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt), 1931Key wordsYoung readers, adventure, feminism, role models, adventure stories, series, women writers, readingThe book that changed meWhen interviewing fellow writers and writing teachers (check out my Between the Lines series) I always...
por Ersun Warncke | Oct 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
Or, Why Writing STILL Matters Artificial intelligence promises to augment our collective processing capacity. But on an individual level it is a neurotoxin that cultivates artificial ignorance.Photo by Santi Vedrí on UnsplashUnused muscles weaken, then atrophy. Plunk...
por Ersun Warncke | Oct 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Jamaica Kincaid on the colonization of the mind A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid, 1988Key words Colonialism, post-colonialism, racism, education, epistolary, second person POVThe past isn’t overLast year, my students and I read A Small Place as part of a unit on...
por Ersun Warncke | Oct 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Live first. Then write. Between the Lines: word-craft interviews with writers and educatorsLight filters into Michael Downs’ basement office, as if it were underwater.Twin decorative dragonflies, backlit on a windowsill, and a red goose-neck lamp stretched into...
por Ersun Warncke | Oct 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the good life Flow: The Psychology of Optimal ExperienceMihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 1990Key words: Psychology, personal development, lifelong learning, autotelic, Stoicism, philosophy, happinessFinding FlowWhen I caught myself...
por Ersun Warncke | Oct 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Empowering young people through writing Don’t dream it — write it Welcome to Write to Success — a celebration of the transformative power of writing and literacy curated and created for parents, engaged adults, educators and parent-educators who are passionate about...
