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Lesson plan; The slopaganda, institutional shitposting, and AI images as political communication

January 30, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

t started with an image of Trump as a king mocked up on a fake Time magazine cover. Since then

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Lesson plan: Social and Economic Conditions in English-Speaking Countries

January 27, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

Main focus: Canada, Australia, and the UK This lesson is made to be easy to follow. You will do lots

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The Learning Network

December 17, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

The 10 Most Commented-On Writing Prompts of 2025 These are the writing prompts that garnered the most student responses on

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Lesson Plan: Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

December 6, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

My core message in “The Ultimate Plagiarism Guide: How to Detect and Prevent It” (Ann S. Michaelsen, November 4, 2021)

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Lesson Plan: From Ophelia to “The Fate of Ophelia” – Art, Music & Shakespeare

November 3, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

Overview This lesson connects Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Friedrich Heyser’s painting The Fate of Ophelia, and Taylor Swift’s modern reinterpretation of the

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Lesson plan; The Imitation Game

October 22, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

The Imitation Game (2014) tells the extraordinary story of Alan Turing, the brilliant British mathematician who helped crack Nazi Germany’s

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Lesson Plan: Exploring the Real-Life Events Behind “Last Breath” (2025)

June 4, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

Lesson Overview This lesson plan uses the 2025 film Last Breath as a case study to examine the true story

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Planet America

Lesson Plan: Understanding Politics, Economics, Health, and Media through Planet America

May 22, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

Planet America is a weekly Australian current affairs program, broadcast by the ABC and co-hosted by John Barron and Chas

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Max Tegmark, a professor of physics and AI researcher at MIT, said global AI safety regimes need to be agreed upon. Photograph: Horacio Villalobos/Corbis/Getty Images

Lesson Plan: Exploring Existential Risk and AI—Critical Thinking in the Age of Intelligent Systems

May 12, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

“AI companies should be required to calculate the risk of their systems escaping human control, experts have said, amid fears

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A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country

Lesson Plan: Navigating the AI Revolution in Writing Education

April 24, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

Grade Level: High School (Grades 10–12) or Early UniversitySubject Areas: English Language Arts, Media Studies, Ethics As artificial intelligence makes

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Lesson Plan: Analyzing Local and Global Climate Challenges in 2024 and Beyond

January 8, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

Overview: This lesson plan invites students to analyze both global and localized climate-related events, such as the California wildfires in

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Lesson plan; Teaching About Poverty and Homelessness Through the Game Spent

February 7, 2019 Ann S. Michaelsen

Can gaming in class help students learn? Using games in the classroom can help students engage with difficult social issues

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