Arri Weeks
@arriweeks.bsky.social
educator. teacher of aplit, UConn ECE English as a film/media studies course, and sophomore English.
"reading a story all the way through is an act of love"
Opinion | Let Students Finish the Whole Book. It Could Change Their Lives.
Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.
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February 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"reading a story all the way through is an act of love"
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis highlighting the essential role the arts and culture play in the pursuit of justice as part of the annual MLK speaker series at Juilliard. What a privilege it was to hear her speak on this occasion and all because of a billboard on Broadway. #visionandjustice
January 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis highlighting the essential role the arts and culture play in the pursuit of justice as part of the annual MLK speaker series at Juilliard. What a privilege it was to hear her speak on this occasion and all because of a billboard on Broadway. #visionandjustice
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Here's the thing, also. If you give students interesting writing challenges that require them to do the human work of writing, believe it or not, they will come to enjoy and respect what writing means. That schools haven't inculcated these attitudes is a shame, but it's fixable.
Large language models have near-zero utility when it comes to helping students develop as writers. I say this because of what I value in the writing experience: thinking, feeling, human exchange and communication with readers. I make the full case in my book www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...
More Than Words
A veteran writing teacher makes a “moving” (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by...
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January 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Here's the thing, also. If you give students interesting writing challenges that require them to do the human work of writing, believe it or not, they will come to enjoy and respect what writing means. That schools haven't inculcated these attitudes is a shame, but it's fixable.
With limited time for personal reading, the list of books I read this year was ok. Reading ‘Martyr’ while listening to ‘Rebel Girl’ brought up a lot memories of art school.
December 23, 2024 at 12:15 PM
With limited time for personal reading, the list of books I read this year was ok. Reading ‘Martyr’ while listening to ‘Rebel Girl’ brought up a lot memories of art school.
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The most effective editing move is still the one I stole from George Saunders: read your draft over and over and over again, out loud, until you have to fix the bad parts because you will literally die if you have to read them more time
December 18, 2024 at 7:05 PM
The most effective editing move is still the one I stole from George Saunders: read your draft over and over and over again, out loud, until you have to fix the bad parts because you will literally die if you have to read them more time
So great to present and to learn from these two phenoms on multimodal compositions in the dual enrollment course #uconneceenglish #ncte2024
November 24, 2024 at 4:59 PM
So great to present and to learn from these two phenoms on multimodal compositions in the dual enrollment course #uconneceenglish #ncte2024
Our session on tapping into our students’ identities and hearts through multimodal composition is this morning 💜
November 24, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Our session on tapping into our students’ identities and hearts through multimodal composition is this morning 💜
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A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
November 23, 2024 at 2:09 AM
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
what a privilege to hear Bryan Stevenson this morning.
November 23, 2024 at 4:06 PM
what a privilege to hear Bryan Stevenson this morning.