Here is an article on BBC written by one Sophie Hardach on 10th March 2023. This was a copy-paste article about which the author knows zilch about. LINK
Here are extracts from the article and my comments.
At the age of 13, however, Alex was diagnosed with dyslexia, a learning difficulty that affects reading and writing. According to test results, his English reading level was that of a six-year-old.
Read my post on this in 2010. LINK
Here is a post on LinkedIn by Jennifer Knopf from Orlando that included the above image.
Jennifer is the President and Founding Director @ REED Charitable Foundation
Her post was reposted by 13 LinkedIn members. I commented on one of the reposts and had a discussion/debate with someone. A day later all our (hers, another member and mine) comments has disappeared. Why members do this is beyond me.
This morning, 8.2.24, I read a post in Education HQ by Sarah Duggan. LINK
Here is an extract and my comments:
All Australian governments and school sector leaders should commit to a 10-year ‘Reading Guarantee’ strategy to reduce the dire number of instructional casualties slipping through the system and ensure best practice is not left to chance, experts have proposed.
One third of all students are below the basic level of reading proficiency, Amy Haywood, Grattan’s education deputy program director, tells Education HQ.
“And the sad thing is, that it’s a preventable tragedy because we do know what strong and effective reading instruction looks like – we just need to make sure that we’re getting it happening in every classroom…” Haywood says.
This is a continuation of the podcast by Anna Stokke. (LINK)
Anna Stokke:
Do you see similarities between what happened with reading instruction and what's going on with math instruction?
Matthew Burns:
I do. It's quite analogous, although it's not a complete one-to-one. It's almost like there's a shift in thinking around what constitutes evidence and what constitutes research-based practices. And I think that's cutting across all aspects of teaching and learning…
This is a follow up to my post yesterday.
Nora Marketos profile says:
Strategic Advisor, Board Member, Facilitator Education, EdTech, Refugees, Migration, Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships
She commented the following on a post on LinkedIn in response to my comment.
There is an extensive set of research showing that learning how to read is not naturally acquired like learning how to speak. This article explores the question of whether this learning process is better in the mother tongue, and there seems to be quite promising evidence for this claim.
I saw the following image on LinkedIn and commented on it. I
then happened to see that that image was liked by 83 members and was re-posted by
42 of them. I then decided to post this on my blog hoping to get some comments from those who re-posted. Will any of the 42 educators have anything to say? It will be an interesting discussion.
The following are my comments on the LinkedIn post.
Here are a few more comments I have on the podcast by Kate of IDA Ontario and Lyn Stone.
Sunk cost fallacy
People will keep investing in that thing rather than scrap it. We spent all this money and time and can’t possibly be wrong. The sunk cost fallacy exists and it makes you think that something is working when it is not working.
My comment:
Sunk cost fallacy is the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial.
"There are regional differences in the pronunciation throughout the English diaspora of the phonemes and it does not impact the illiteracy rate."
Katherine, do you really think I don't know this? You have been hoodwinked into believing that it does not impact literacy. I ask you a direct question. Did you take time to listen to my 5 videos that takes only 15 minutes? Answer me yes/No?
