by Jesse Masinter | Oct 30, 2025 | Book Reflections, Educational Writing
“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury: or, thoughts on letting technology live for us. Entertainment these days is so passive. You sit on the couch and watch a movie. You scroll on your phone (and fine, maybe your thumb presses a button every once and a while). You listen to a...
by Jesse Masinter | Oct 30, 2025 | Creative Writing
RB-67: The Miracle Drug to Prevent Doomscrolling Experts had labelled doomscrolling the most dangerous addiction of the century, and RB-67 was the solution. Smiling actors in lab coats announced the miracle cure in a series of ads on Instagram, Tik Tok, and YouTube...
by Jesse Masinter | Oct 8, 2025 | Thoughts on Learning
5 Reasons to Discuss What You Read 1) Human thought is inherently dialogic. What does that mean? Well, “dialogic” refers to the use of conversation to explore meaning. We can’t make sense of the world entirely by ourselves. When we listen, we hear new ideas that...
by Jesse Masinter | Oct 3, 2025 | Educational Writing
Residential Schools, Racism, and the Role of Assimilation in Public Schools: Thoughts after reading The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune After reading The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (in preparation for my September 30th session), I took to Tik Tok...
by Jesse Masinter | Sep 30, 2025 | Educational Writing
Murder and Madness in The Tell-Tale Heart Violence feels so senseless these days. Charlie Kirk got assassinated on the same day as a mass shooting at a school in Evergreen, CO. I’m watching iteration after iteration of the Columbine High School massacre that took...
