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Teaching Students to Have Original Ideas in the Age of AI
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Want to learn more about author and Garden of English creator Timm Freitas? Tune into our new Author Q&A series! Learn who inspired to become a teacher, play a game of "this or that" and find out what his REAL favorite subject is (spoiler alert: it's not English!)
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