It’s like making children from around the world complete an obstacle course to fully participate in society but requiring the English-speaking participants to wear blindfolds
Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories - 0 views
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A5) I'm hoping to create some Twine text games this summer, but I haven't started yet. https://t.co/ix3upQtKcQ #guildchat - Ellen Burns-Johnson (EllenBJohnson) http://twitter.com/EllenBJohnson/status/748948706288738305 Reading & learning abt @twinethreads - looks super interesting @kenjmcclure @FriedEnglish101 @davecaleb @klbeasley https://t.co/6YOMxum58c
Free Technology for Teachers: 22 Videos That Can Help Students Improve Their Writing - 0 views
How Spelling Keeps Kids From Learning - The Atlantic - 0 views
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Unlike many other languages, English spelling was never reformed to eliminate the incongruities. In a sense, English speakers now talk in one language but write a different one
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By contrast, languages such as Finnish and Korean have very regular spelling systems; rules govern the way words are written, with few exceptions. Finnish also has the added bonus of a nearly one-to-one correspondence between sounds and letters, meaning fewer rules to learn. So after Finnish children learn their alphabet, learning to read is pretty straightforward—they can read well within three months of starting formal learning, Bell says. And it’s not just Finnish- and Korean-speaking children who are at a significant advantage: A 2003 study found that English-speaking children typically needed about three years to master the basics of reading and writing, whereas their counterparts in most European countries needed a year or less.
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How Stephen King Teaches Writing - The Atlantic - 0 views
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One either absorbs the grammatical principles of one’s native language in conversation and in reading or one does not
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Reading is the key, though. A kid who grows up hearing “It don’t matter to me” can only learn doesn’t if he/she reads it over and over again
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You need to take out the stuff that’s just sitting there and doing nothing
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50 Writing Prompts for All Grade Levels | Edutopia - 0 views
https://quillette.com/2021/02/20/thinking-critically-about-critical-thinking/ - 0 views
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critical thinking is not a skill that can be improved through practice—like a golf swing—nor is it a “general” capability. Instead, it is an abstract description of what humans can do as a result amassing a wealth of underpinning knowledge and skills relevant to the particular context in which thinking is to be deployed
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young children are capable of thinking critically about subjects they know a great deal about, whereas trained scientists can fail to think critically in areas where they are less knowledgeable
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not all knowledge is created equal. We need to differentiate between knowledge and information. Much of the information stored on the Internet is pictures of kittens or videos of people singing sea shanties. This can keep increasing exponentially without any need for school children to become acquainted with it
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