How do we define effective parent engagement in a child's education, and what criteria do we use to measure it?

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Factors that impact learning - learners’ prior knowledge (including misconceptions), teachers’ ability to present new information keeping this in mind; the opportunities (& types) she provides to practice -rehearse, extrapolate, generalise; & students’ willingness to learn.

Join me as I use language models for source investigation, emphasizing the importance of choice in selecting bots & context windows. I share a collaborative process of investigating sources, showcasing how language models aid in close reading. loom.com/share/f53d7f17…

Parents just don't understand: 62% of teens vs. 35% of parents think AI boosts learning. 54% of teens vs. 82% of parents worry about cheating. 47% of teens vs. 80% of parents fear hindered critical thinking. A stark generational divide on AI in education. commonsensemedia.org/research/the-d…

Would you sit on an aeroplane that crashes 60-80% of the time? Probably not, yet we send our kids to schools that can teach 60-80% (if we’re lucky) to read

Aquinas views intellect and will as spiritual faculties unique to humans, rooted in the soul. These powers enable abstract thought and free choice, transcending material processes. He'd likely see them as fundamentally distinct from AI algorithms. ncronline.org/opinion/guest-…

LLMs challenge Chomskyan view suggesting language is learned via statistical associations, not innate rules. This has implications for balancing explicit teaching & implicit learning in language & reading instruction, especially for multilingual students. languageandliteracy.blog/llms-statistic…

I'm a big fan of sentence combining and imitation. My 5th graders are learning about prepositional phrases. Embed vocabulary if you can & encourage Ss to use vocabulary that was previously learned like the word emphatic.

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“All technological extensions of ourselves must be numb and subliminal, else we could not endure the leverage exerted upon us by such extension.” Marshall McLuhan ‘Understanding Media’ 1964

"Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness."

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'...one can think of human cognition as a constantly changing landscape with peaks and valleys.' (Clark and Paivio, 1991).

'This is the true story of how thousands of children in Wales are being left behind by teaching methods that have been proven not to work.' Wales Reporter Rhys Williams﮷ goes inside the reading crisis that has left thousands of children unable to read itv.com/news/2024-09-2…

An outstanding report on how reading is taught in wales. In Scotland, we have EXACTLY the same issues We have a reading crisis. It is no fault of the teachers but the decision makers and programmes the teachers are given to teach. They are fundamentally flawed

What an amazing thread from Rhys. Outstanding journalism and getting to the root of the problem. The exact same issues are occurring in Scotland right now. Yet, we know how to teach reading so that all children can succeed

Why aren’t pupils in Wales getting the excellent, evidence-based reading instruction available in England? Vital reporting from Rhys Williams﮷.

I'll have more on the reaction to this piece live on the ITV Evening News tonight ITV News

“Whatever their aspirations in life, reading won’t be the thing that holds them back” - Alec Mills, Headteacher, Twynyrodyn Primary School. Watch and read this excellent ITV report on how Alec’s school is one of few exceptions to the rule in Wales. Also featuring Gareth Rein and