Archive - The Paste Eaters Blog

February 2025

💬 Let Speaking Teach Writing (James Moffett on Discourse)

How do we help students stuck at initial phases of writing?

Feb 23 •

🖥️ How We Failed the First Digital Generation (The Dead Desktop Metaphor)

We rendered the physical world backwards incompatible. But it started with letter writing.

Feb 17 •

✏️ 101 Random Lesson Plans (No AI)

Remember how the 20 page lesson plan left you unprepared for 180 days of teaching? What if you could start with a lesson plan catalogue like a recipe…

Feb 8 •

January 2025

📰 Gen Z Doesn’t Understand the Movie “Snow Day” (and Other News Stories)

The Honest School Times - Late January Edition

Jan 31 •

✏️ Student Writing Notebooks: The Starter Pack (ft. 50+ Example Journals) (3/3)

Writing every day sounds fantastic. But how do you start?

Jan 25 •

📓 Couch to 5K Writing

Want to improve running? You might consider running first.

Jan 22 •

📰 Local School Uses AI Grief Counselors After TikTok Ban

"Why not? We already had a chatbot subscription."

Jan 19 •

✏️ What to Write Every Day (And How to Grade It) (2/3)

So your students now write every day. What do they write? How does grading work?

Jan 12 •

✏️ How to Write Every Day (Student Writing Notebooks) (1/3)

Daily writing transforms writing notebooks to sketchbooks.

Jan 4 •

December 2024

📰 Teachers Gather on New Years to Watch the Pendulum Swing

What new bestest practices ever will fill your bingo cards in 2025?

Dec 28, 2024 •

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