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“A better essay is what we all want.” A professor said that to me almost fifteen years ago, and it became the guiding principle of my work as a university instructor and especially as the Knowledge Ambassador for EssayJack. EssayJack is founded on the idea that writing anxiety and a lack of proper instruction in essay…
There are over 1.5b people learning English in the world. Let’s put that number into perspective: that’s roughly 20% of the world’s population learning English. Right now. That’s a really big number. I mean, China, the most populous country in the world, has around 1.3b people, and India, the close second in terms of population, has about…
What is it like to teach in today’s secondary and post-secondary classrooms in our increasingly globalised and international world where students come from all over the place, and the continuity of education from early grades to higher education is no longer a given? What strategies can we as educators employ? I’ve been thinking long and…
Sometimes our EssayJack users ask us why we don’t have a built in spell check or grammar check, and our answer is simple: There are lots of great tools out there that already check grammar and spelling, so why re-invent the wheel? Now we are taking it one step further, and we will be working…
“I already know how to teach.” More than a few teachers respond this way when they are first introduced to a new educational technology, or EdTech. It’s a completely understandable reaction. But at EssayJack, teachers are our partners, not our competitors. Digitalisation and mechanisation have brought structural transformations and upheavals to numerous sectors of the…
The finalists have just been announced by The Tech Edvocate Awards in a whole host of educational categories from pre-kindergarten all the way up to college and university. In a spirit that recognises “change and innovation,” these awards celebrate “the best that edtech has to offer by recognizing outstanding companies, people, products, etc.” We are…
Our happily married co-founders, Dr Lindy Ledohowski and Dr Rueban Balasubramaniam, recently sat down with Jeff Sandhu from BFM Radio for a captivating interview about EssayJack. After the interview Jeff said “it was definitely among my top 5 most memorable interviews in the 8 years of radio journalism.” Everyone likes to hear entrepreneurial stories, what the journey is like, and how one goes from…
When I was an undergraduate, submitting an essay meant just that: printing out an essay, making sure my name was on it and handing it in to a professor or teaching assistant. On my first day as a teaching assistant at the University of Toronto, though, I was in for a surprise. The professor for…
At EssayJack, we love the English language. Our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Lindy Ledohowski, used to tell her students: “analyze the world around you and be empowered!” Dr. Ledohowski said that as a professor of English, and for most of us on Team EssayJack, English is the medium for that analysis and empowerment.…
As Knowledge Ambassador & Client Support for EssayJack it’s not unusual for me to be out there on school and university campuses walking educators and students through our smart writing software, EssayJack, and answering all sorts of questions on what our web-based app can and can’t do. However, there was one particular day when, after…