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Ian Landy (he/him)

Ian Landy (he/him)

@technolandy

Regional Principal of PIE @ qathet; advocate mental wellness https://t.co/E2j3XtYvsz…; efolio assessment; Apple Teacher, husband & dad

Powell River, British Columbia Katılım Şubat 2011
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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@RyanGirdusky Typing is superior for many of us. Helped me as a student and I hope to see more overcome ableism’s like “handwriting works” without the admission disclosure “for some” - and even then, to what end… writing notes for: ____ what’s the output?
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Ryan James Girdusky
Ryan James Girdusky@RyanGirdusky·
The wildest thing about education that I’ve learned in the last six years is the superintendents and administrators are always running to the new thing when so often the old thing worked better. Writing notes is superior to typing it for children, yet they threw it away
gal debored@ckayerawlings

Some friends said they’re sending their kids to a no screens private school and I was curious how much it cost. It costs $47,200/year!!!!!!!!!!! $47,200!!!!!!! $47,200 DOLLARS

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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@alexanderrusso Shocking that we teach different, but test the old ways and don’t get corresponding information… AI has tremendous potential as a learning collaborator, but not if we hope to replicate old outcomes (herd knowledge)
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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@KMFollett I find music allows me to tune out my tinnitus when it’s particularly active ~ and ideally cancel each other out. A mindful distraction to better focus…
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Ken Follett
Ken Follett@KMFollett·
I never play music while I’m writing. That’s not because it distracts me. On the contrary, I’m so deep into the imaginary world that I just don’t hear the music. How about you? Do you listen to music while you work?
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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@socraticexp The lower hanging would be: why read? Going even more back to basics and focusing on oral/aural communications since books were created bc people could not be seen & heard world wide… now they can… and as a librarian this is more of a tease bc I ❤️ reading (but know not all do)
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Socratic Experience
Socratic Experience@socraticexp·
The low-hanging fruit in education is embarrassingly simple: more reading. If we could get a significantly higher percentage of kids to spend 2-3 hours a day reading from ages 7-8 into their teens, most would develop a more solid foundation for high school than do the bored, inattentive kids in lessons that most don't find engaging.
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Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@0Beanie05923291 Even my reading teacher, who wrote a book on whole language during that “reading war”, agreed in the need for phonix and its instruction… just as part of the reading process: within the “how” l
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beanie0597_2.0
beanie0597_2.0@0Beanie05923291·
It's amazing how easily the education community was convinced that something as obvious as phonics instruction was an "unproven and unnecessary" component when teaching children to read, yet the same community clings to the obscure myth of "learning styles" for dear life.
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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@YongZhaoEd My biggest wonder is how much of a change will happen with this disruption. Books radio tv and calculators were all edu-banned until they couldn’t be… but AI & screens mean a ponder on why “all must learn the same” needs to continue? The role of school… tbd?
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Yong Zhao, Ph.D
Yong Zhao, Ph.D@YongZhaoEd·
Why do we need to change education in the age of AI? Read my recent post on my new website: Recent Reports about AI in Schools: What’s Happening and What Should Be Happening? zhaolearning.org/2026/03/04/rec…
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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@LuizaJarovsky They should not have been reliant only on pen and paper when that was the dominant format - we know so much more about neurology and the thought that cursive essays are “the” way to show one’s knowledge is so … limited and limiting.
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@LuizaJarovsky·
Schools should go back to pen-and-paper only (and everyone knows it).
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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@TolentinoTeach Pretty sure we can live in a universe where it need not be all or none. For many of us, typing has been so much better than pen and paper (still use pencils ~and added fountain pen to my repertoire when my primary pencil runs out of battery) mindful screen use is transformational
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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@DrRonHolt Helping make our Oceanview campus a safe inclusive place for all students - and flying the pride inclusive flag in our commons area (with a district write up why they are in all qathet schools) west coast of BC ~ qathet/Powell River
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LGBTQ Shrink
LGBTQ Shrink@DrRonHolt·
If you are an ally or part of the LGBTQIA+ community, place in the comments where you call home or just hit the like button. I’d love to see how far my chosen family extends. 🥰 I’ll start: I’m from San Francisco. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈
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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@JamesAFurey In a lot of teaching… and learning… and planning… and even artifacts of student work, I continue to promote quality over quantity. And many essay structures (5 paras of predetermined sentences) are gonna trigger copy signs because they lose “voice” and have set routine
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James A. Furey
James A. Furey@JamesAFurey·
One of the biggest mistakes in writing instruction, and the one I’ve seen in school after school, teacher after teacher, is to mistake volume for rigor. It does a kid no good whatsoever to write an essay in sixth grade if they can’t piece together a decent sentence.
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Alex & Books 📚
Alex & Books 📚@AlexAndBooks_·
One reason I love books is because it’s the only form of media that doesn’t have ads: Social media = Ads Newspapers = Ads Podcasts = Ads YouTube = Ads TV = Ads Books = No Ads
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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@JoshPhillipsPhD I think the Brothers Karamazov would like to discuss your definition of “difficult” - great, yes - but I tried it before crime & punishment - shoulda built up to it,,.
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Joshua D Phillips
Joshua D Phillips@JoshPhillipsPhD·
I need to make a distinction: Just because a novel is long does not mean that it’s difficult. Tolstoy’s novels are long. They are not difficult.
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Reads with Ravi
Reads with Ravi@readswithravi·
You must read. Read nonfiction. Read fiction. Read history. Read philosophy. Read psychology. Read banned literature. Read poetry. Read about new technology. Read biography. Read memoir. Read on economics. Read on finance. Reread what you have already read. Read. Reflect. Repeat.
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Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@edudissenter @VinceBoley Ewww. Grammar and no voice? I’d argue the other way - find your voice and rhythm and then see how the mechanics can augment and improve the flow and interpretation of the reader. James Joyce Ulysses as an eg
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Dissident Teacher
Dissident Teacher@edudissenter·
@VinceBoley Contrarian take: teach the mechanics (punctuation, etc.) but leave it there. Writing well emerges from mastery of mechanics, mental templates derived from having read a lot, and, above all, knowledge of what you’re writing about.
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Vince Boley
Vince Boley@VinceBoley·
The majority of teachers have no clue how to explicitly teach students to write. Why is nobody talking about this?
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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@VinceBoley Reading Writing Math. We want “one best program” to lay out along the assembly line of learning. And education is anti-logical - if it sounds good on paper, it ain’t gonna work. I think/hope the majority do know, but struggle to find time to explicitly teach to diverse cohorts
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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
But @tombennett71 there is a difference for those who (choose drive or read) get to vs have to. Agree with the explicit teaching “learn to read” but okay with leaving “read to… ‘learn’” being more open ended technolandy.com/2026/03/11/day…
Tom Bennett OBE@tombennett71

Teaching reading for pleasure is like teaching driving for pleasure. If you can’t drive, it’s no fun at all. Function precedes appreciation, and competence precedes confidence.

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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@cix_stormrage @tes inspired my blog yesterday (reason for reading defaulted to “read comics this spring break) technolandy.com/2026/03/11/day… learn to read to read to learn - but until we have Prentice & Fountall fan fiction on Reddit - gotta be an element of “cuz reading is fun” too
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Jack 🎗️🧡
Jack 🎗️🧡@cix_stormrage·
Isn’t the best way to encourage a love of books and reading to share stories with children, whether that can read or not? My class raid the book box and put books on my desk that they want me to read. Often the are books we’ve read many times.
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Ian Landy (he/him)
Ian Landy (he/him)@technolandy·
@TolentinoTeach Yet we like to measure fluency based on wpm (words per minute) - something I’ve long pushed back on. Reading ought to be about quality, not quantity of time (though I have been biased to default to more reading time because it’s something that comes easy to me)
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Brian Tolentino M.Ed
Brian Tolentino M.Ed@TolentinoTeach·
Students need to read books. Entire books. Our society is distracted, unfocused, and in a hurry. A curriculum that rushes through content perpetuates the anxiety of our time. Reading a book (slowly and leisurely) is a countercultural act.
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Dana Palubiak
Dana Palubiak@DanaPalubiak·
Some adults worry that graphic novels and comics “don’t count” as reading. But children reading them are practicing exactly what strong readers do: Following narrative structure. Interpreting visual information. Connecting dialogue and context. Comprehension is on every page.
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