Matthew Ryder
@mattw009
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Yeah, try telling this to your dentist.
Six years in the gym taught me some brutal truths about fitness: 1. Eat all the damn fruits you want.- It’s almost impossible to overeat it.
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Brilliant piece here, with useful take-aways for fans of knowledge building (like myself). “I think we are left with only one option: shape, constrain and direct prior knowledge as much as possible before introducing new ideas.”
“Prior knowledge helps learning”… but does it really? A new meta-analysis and an RCT this year challenge that orthodoxy. Here’s what this means for making prior knowledge actually work for learners... 🚩Today's substack:
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Yes, we should read novels as an entire class. A fifth grade 🧵My 5th graders just spent the past few weeks reading Number the Stars. It is a historical fiction novel that takes place in Denmark during WW2. Lois Lowry is a brilliant story teller. 1/
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The difference is that you are saying your opinion is derived and supported by research whereas he says there's no research either way and his opinion is his opinion.
@ReadingShanahan @Eduventuring04 @oliviajune82 I’m sorry, which kids are disaffected with a book for six weeks? Where is the evidence to show that whole books in grades 3+ necessitate six weeks of classroom time? Where are your independent.studies showing that students are disaffected by such whole text work? Because your
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@BoksnerJudy @Eduventuring04 @FaithBorkowsky @karenvaites @natwexler @ehanford @HKorbey I'll split the difference. Yes, pedagogy is key; curriculum doesn't teach itself. But curricular coherence matters and teachers shouldn't be cobbling together lessons and taking time away from higher value uses of their time--studying student work, giving feedback, etc.
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@FaithBorkowsky @oliviajune82 @BoksnerJudy @karenvaites @natwexler @ehanford @HKorbey I've done so in the past (see below). I'm never been one to waive the bloody shirt and say "unless you've been a teacher, your opinion doesn't matter" simply because non-teachers are also stakeholders. And because our work occurs on the public's dime and in a public policy
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A new initiative is reviewing and rating major providers of teacher training with the ambition of becoming the EdReports of professional learning. Rivet Education’s “Professional Learning Partner...
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This also applies to a certain US centric view which wants to do away with standardised reading tests and instead test the specific topics and texts that have been taught.
@daisychristo As @Mr_AlmondED suggests, the problem with this proposed solution is that pupils will be able to answer questions *without* actually reading. This then becomes an assessment of their knowledge of the anthology rather than a reading assessment. https://t.co/tyVksw1s5K
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Yesterday I saw a remarkable clip of Howard Gardner making a startling admission about his theory of multiple intelligences. I decided to track it down. Link in reply👇
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If solving a math story problem depends on reading fluency and knowing niche vocabulary, it’s not testing math—it’s testing reading and background knowledge. That’s construct-irrelevant variance: when success hinges on unrelated skills. Strip the noise. Teach the math.
"In other words, the way lessons and assessments are written may force students to expend so much energy figuring out what the question is asking that they don’t have enough mental bandwidth left to focus on the math itself."
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@burnsmk1 @ReadingShanahan Yes, but comprehension of the specific text used in the study isn't a learning outcome in any meaningful sense. It just shows that texts that are easier to read lead to more comprehension of that text. It says nothing about the contribution to learning. >>
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@burnsmk1 @ReadingShanahan Assuming you mean Parker & Burns (2013), as you know, that study had three participants and no control. And the difference in phase 1 and phase 2 wasn't just frustration level Vs instructional level texts. It was a whole different teaching procedure.
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I don't begrudge those teachers who make their classrooms pretty. However, I don't do borders. I like books. I like my desks in rows. Teachers shouldn't feel pressured in how their classroom looks. It's about student learning.
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The irony of this video: if you try and learn how to swim through the 'deeper way' of discovering it for yourself, there's a fair chance you'll drown.
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Dr. Jo Boaler helps to confirm the accuracy of the critique of her ‘Railside’ study in her book 1/n
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The #RunningRecord is not a valid and reliable reading progress monitoring tool. @latrobe #SOLARLab PhD student Annie Unger explains why in this @EducationHQ_AU article (open-access link embeded): https://t.co/XKkyBZ8RK8
educationhq.com
A popular reading assessment that rose to become ‘part of the furniture’ in Australian schools was based on a deeply flawed idea, despite a considerable body of ‘evidence’ showing it was a valid tool...
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'Citation laundering' is a big problem in education research. This is where claims get repeated without verification, and the underlying studies often have serious methodological flaws or effect size inflation. Citations in the field of education academia are often decorative.
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Is it time to move past heroes and villains in the education space? https://t.co/c3ldJm0294
pedagogynongrata.com
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But what about when it doesn’t happen? What’s the approach from advocates of explicit instruction for teaching students how to think conceptually, analyze, and think critically? @MrZachG @greg_ashman
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