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Educator. PhD (Year 2): Are We Out Of Our Minds?: Learning in the Age of AI. | REGENERATIVE LEARNING. Etre et Avoir. Q: WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?
Hungary, Ireland, and Global Katılım Eylül 2015
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“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 @garein and @robrandel who have been raising the alarm for years.
@RhysWilliamsTV has gone to great lengths to document the problem and explain the difference between evidence-based and ineffective teaching methods and the life-long impacts on children who receive the latter.
Rhys Williams﮷@RhysWilliamsTV
NEW: A special report on Wales’ reading crisis. We’ve been investigating the way reading is taught in early years and found that schools in Wales continue to use long debunked ways to teach reading, with dire consequences. 🧵
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I'll have more on the reaction to this piece live on the ITV Evening News tonight @itvnews
Rhys Williams﮷@RhysWilliamsTV
NEW: A special report on Wales’ reading crisis. We’ve been investigating the way reading is taught in early years and found that schools in Wales continue to use long debunked ways to teach reading, with dire consequences. 🧵
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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
Rhys Williams﮷@RhysWilliamsTV
NEW: A special report on Wales’ reading crisis. We’ve been investigating the way reading is taught in early years and found that schools in Wales continue to use long debunked ways to teach reading, with dire consequences. 🧵
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'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 @RhysWilliamsTV goes inside the reading crisis that has left thousands of children unable to read #Echobox=1727268140" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">itv.com/news/2024-09-2…
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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
Rhys Williams﮷@RhysWilliamsTV
NEW: A special report on Wales’ reading crisis. We’ve been investigating the way reading is taught in early years and found that schools in Wales continue to use long debunked ways to teach reading, with dire consequences. 🧵
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Why aren’t pupils in Wales getting the excellent, evidence-based reading instruction available in England? Vital reporting from @RhysWilliamsTV.
Rhys Williams﮷@RhysWilliamsTV
NEW: A special report on Wales’ reading crisis. We’ve been investigating the way reading is taught in early years and found that schools in Wales continue to use long debunked ways to teach reading, with dire consequences. 🧵
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🎥 The YouTube version of our chat with Charles Jennings is now LIVE! 🚀
Explore the future of workplace learning, the power of #AI, and shifting focus from skills to team performance. 💡
📺 Watch here: youtu.be/W4baVM2AZNM
#L&D #702010 #TeamPerformance #FutureOfWork #AI
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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
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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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"Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness."
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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
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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…
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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-…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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