S17E988 - How to Teach Writing with Digital Media

Dr. Sarah Levine taught secondary English in a Chicago public school for ten years, where she founded a youth radio program to make writing feel real to her students. She is now a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and Executive Director of the Stanford Teacher Education Program. In this episode she gives you the smallest possible version of an authentic audience — an audience of one — and it turns out that's enough.

Her students record a memory about someone they love and give it to that person as a gift. Levine's research found that kids revi...