BardBots is a project in which students are introduced to key concepts in computational thinking via an unlikely combination: Shakespeare and robots. I believe that the distance between the humanities,…
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Edgar Allan Poe is a mainstay of American literary culture, particularly in classrooms and book clubs as Halloween nears. (The seeming infinite appeal of The Simpsons tribute episode helps as…
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I burned the midnight oil this weekend to make the these 11 new literary data sets available. And here you go! If you are teaching any of these books, reading…
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As I read Sally Rooney’s new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You, I am increasingly interested in the stories two main protagonists Alice and Eileen. So, I created the scatterplot…
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I’ll make this brief. I am so excited to be starting Sally Rooney’s latest novel Beautiful World, Where Are You that I express tracked creating the literary data for it.…
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Ever lurk on discussion boards for books you are reading to see what insights others come up with? No? Well, I DO! Goodreads user Alex asked an interesting question about…
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When it comes to discussing books, there are two main ways readers can go about it: reading closely (this is by far the most popular), or reading distantly. But with…
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You might not know it, but I have been working on Plotting Plots for many years (see the origin story here). There were so many iterations of activities and projects,…
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Math has so much to offer readers. It can open up wonderfully new ways to enjoy literature.
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In schools today, there is too often a deep line dividing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) from the humanities. That line is falsely drawn, and it limits the potential…