Nice point. Discarding data always leads to trouble...

This thread is a fascinating exploration of the problems of implementing explicit instruction in new contexts. Would love to get a closer look

Someone just sent me this - a trick to detect AI usage in student essays

tiktok.com/@mondaysmadeea…

Avid followers of my Twitter/X feed will know that I often use the difference of two squares for mental arithmetic. Today, I used it to work out how many years ago the 13- and 17-year cicadas last appeared together...

New study from Norway: Banning smartphones in schools significantly decreases the proportion of girls presenting with mental health issues and bullying drops dramatically. Benefits most strongly felt by disadvantaged girls.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Does anyone know a simple tool for those in schools who want to work in an evidence-informed way to evaluate the evidence that interventional studies provide? It's a topic adrie visscher and I are thinking of exploring (we have the paper by Stephen Gorard and the book by Daniel Willingham).

Can pre-questioning or pretesting be useful for learning?

🎓Short summary of a 2023 review by Pan & Carpenter ⤵️

What they did
The researchers explored the literature on pre-testing, which basically means testing students on stuff before you teach it.

What they found…

For those seeing all the drama, the misinformation, & the attempts to discredit me, this is my interpretation of the events: thethreo.com/the-silencing-…

When Anna Stokke blocked me after this I reached out via email.

I'm pleased to note we've had a quite reasonable exchange with some humility from both parties & you can look for Anna to be a guest on our podcast sometime this summer.

Don't trap yourself in an Us v. Them mindset.

What Direct Instruction is and what it isn't.

Never saw this coming... but seems obvious... that's at least half a million jobs right there....

TenaciousKat (find me on 🧵s) Dylan Wiliam Tanya Anne Serry PhD 𝗗𝗿 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗶𝗻 I haven’t listened as yet and will do so. But (a) I don’t think the fact that there’s a continuum of ease changes the biological secondary argument (there is a spread of oral language abilities too) and (b) good readers are not necessarily good spellers.

I asked Claude to make me a 3D spaceship simulator game and it produced this code, which I pasted into a p5.js editor online as instructed.

It is obviously full of strange bugs that I could work with Claude to solve. But controls work and I appreciate the sheer weirdness.

No investigation into Jo Boaler’s misuse of citations following an anonymous complaint stanforddaily.com/2024/04/22/uni…

Another meta-analysis finds that oral-only exercises aren't terribly effective or important for teaching reading. Here's the latest. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Here's my lay-person's explanation of the history of phonemic awareness and the debate: hechingerreport.org/proof-points-c…

For anyone who thinks the 'science of reading' is settled, 'Fact-checking the science of reading' by Rob Tierney (UBC) and David Pearson (UCB) will be unsettling: bit.ly/3W19sXE (pdf)