I want my students to be doing the work of readers and writers, not the work of school, as often as possible. So, whenever I come across a text that interests me, I immediately wonder about the possibilities for application in the classroom. For years, I have been using TED talks as non-print text for ‘reading,’ but recently I started to think about TED talks as a model for writing. One of our power standards for our last unit was the 8th grade English Language Arts Common Core Standard 7…
