The following tweets were exchanged on Twitter. I followed it without commenting as it sounded like kids fighting with one another. It reminded me of the Indian prince who caught a three legged rabbit and insisted that all rabbits are 3 legged.
Here are the tweets and my comments.
What a bad habit many people from the Anglo sphere seem to possess?
Many on Social Media delete discussions and comments when they are unable to respond to questions.
All the discussion with Bethany Lee (Beth Any) on her Facebook were deleted all of a sudden.
Monday, September 6, 2021
Does More Money Buy Better Public Education (1)
Here are extracts from part 1 (this should have come before part 2) and my comments.
Some of these folks are experienced educators. But many of them derive their beliefs from the newspapers, from pundits and commentators, from business interests and various other interest groups.
My comment:
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Does More Money Buy Better Education--Minneapolis edition(2)
Luqman Michel
Jerry Von Korff, do you know what you mean by students with dyslexia? Would you like to discuss this matter openly right here?
Note: This post is to ensure that my comments will not be
deleted like it has been on many of the FB comments I have made. Bethany Lee, a dyslexia advocate, is the latest to delete all my comments and her responses from FB.
My comment on David Boulton's 'Children of the Code' was deleted after a few months.How can anyone accept the stupid statements made by David Boulton such as the following:
Children of the Code avoided advocating solutions so as not to be dismissed as having an agenda other than learning deeper into the challenge.
Alicia Smith @AliciaFromTiny.
She is the current President, International Dyslexia Association – Ontario.
Her twitter account says: ‘This is my personal account, thoughts and opinions posted are my own.’
You may find the MPS academic advocacy group website here.
I read 3 of the articles on the website and wonder why the Americans keep saying the same things again and again and expect different results.
Dr. Sam Bommarito article here is worth reading.
Here is part of a paragraph from his article.
There is no one size fits all answer when it comes to teaching reading. What works with one child/group of children, does not always work with another. If all sides in the dialogue about how to best teach reading would be willing to admit that their favorite method(s) have limits and limitations and that they could sometimes use a little help from methods they usually don’t use, I think the current dialogue around how to teach reading could become more productive. There are a number of things we can and should do to end the bickering (as opposed to dialogue) that has all too often dominated our conversations about reading.
For those who are new to my YouTube channel, please read the preface and notes in this blog.
Here is the YouTube video link for lesson 23.
Teach your child the word family 'ell'.
With this family word your child should be encouraged to read new words containing the word family 'ell'. Please refer to lesson 20 which describes how to teach new words.
Here is a link to my YouTube channel.
Teach your child to learn to read new words using all the word families we have learned to-date.
Here is the link to my YouTube video for lesson 20.
Digraphs can include a combination of consonants or vowels.
The combination 'ay' is a digraph.
The following is from the conversation between Dr. Kathryn Garforth and Jennifer Buckingham.
Sight words or one that has been memorized based on its shape vs the word that has been orthographically mapped. Because I see in many classroom teachers sending home Dolch words and expect kids to memorise them. Let us talk about why that is not the best approach and how memorizing a word is different from mapping it orthographically in your brain (Kathryn Garforth).
