Dee
@playfulclassroom.bsky.social
🇮🇪 PhD candidate - Literacy Education 🍎 Playful Classroom 🎶 Lover of play, music, picturebooks, tea and all things creative. 🍉 #SOR #EdChatIE
We are ready and waiting to welcome you to the 60th UKLA International Conference! You'll find us in the Tithebarn building, just behind the superlambanana! #thisismyukla #uklaliverpool25
Rosenshine’s Principles Revisited - a real deep dive into effective instruction with Tom Sherrington today. I love learning about all of this because it is relevant to all subjects. #EdChatIE #ScienceOfLearning #InAction @teacherhead.bsky.social
To watch the recording of the outstanding webinar from edWeb, Orthographic Mapping: Making Words Stick, w/ Molly Ness & Dr. Katie Pace Miles click on the link below & be sure not to miss their related book from Scholastic! I pre-ordered mine & can't wait! Watch here: media.edweb.net/edWebinar/?v...
Coming up this Wednesday! Join @clarafiorentini.bsky.social and myself for a special webinar on lighthouses and literacy. Packed with creative, end-of-year ideas. Lots of inspiration to carry you through the last few weeks! literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/nG9rC...
Check out the latest edition of InTouch magazine for an article that I wrote about Ireland’s achievements in literacy. As the title suggests, we are doing very well internationally, but that’s not the whole story. Read the article to find out more… (pg.45) intouch.into.ie/html5/reader...
Read this yesterday which was similar - if the point is to learn by reading/writing, it's probably worth doing the hard/long way. I find LLMs to be enormously useful in other spaces (it's actually pretty good, I think, about teaching Socratically) claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/
I'd rather read the prompt
I have literally never seen LLM writing that actually improved my life.
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Someone asked me why I don’t let AI summarize reading for me or write drafts and the answer is that either of those shortcuts would eliminate the process of thinking. And the thinking is the important part.
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
Check out my first post ‘Planning for Infant Classes: Why English Shouldn’t Be Sliced Into Separate Pieces’ open.substack.com/pub/readwrit...
Planning for Infant Classes
Why English Shouldn’t Be Sliced Into Separate Pieces
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Come along with me for day 2 of the @esai-irl.bsky.social conference and some dreadful tea in Athlone. (Hotels, please up your tea game. You could dance a donkey on this.) #EdChatIE
Looking forward to this! I recognise many names on the schedule… good luck all! #EdChatIE
ESAI@esai-irl.bsky.social · last yr.Preparations are in full swing as #esai25 approaches this week! We look forward to 3 fantastic days 🎉 Best of luck to all those involved in the 185+ papers, 7 symposia, 14 posters, 4 SIG presentations, 2 keynotes, 1 panel & our new ‘round table & performance’ formats! #edchatie
The Literacy Association of Ireland’s biannual publication ‘Literacy News’ is ready to read now! Lots of fabulous insights, ideas, and inspiration for sparking (/maintaining!) the joy of reading Please do share with anyone who might be interested ✨ #EdChatIe 💜 📖 👉🏻 heyzine.com/flip-book/74...
Excellent webinar this evening with @suchmo83.bsky.social with practical strategies for reading lessons that are grounded in up to date research. More of this please @clanavtra.bsky.social ! 👏🏻 #EdChatIE #PrimaryReadingSimplified
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
“Should we build a fence at the top of the cliff, or should we put an ambulance at the bottom?” Right now, we’re seeing far more ambulances than fences in our school districts…🚑 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s... @ehanford.bsky.social #ScienceOfReading #PupsAndPodcasts
🧵 Reading Recovery 🧵 You are probably aware that Reading Recovery has come into question a lot in recent years. This is because many teachers and parents are now aware of reading research, and how the Reading Recovery does not align with it very well. 1/n #EdChatIE #ReadingRecovery
Thank you for sharing, Trina! Sign up here: literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/z2z3M... #SoR #Ad
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Trina Golden@trinagolden.bsky.social · last yr.Their upcoming symposium with Jan Hasbrouck is well worth signing up for for anyone interested #Edchatie #EdShareie
I think a massive opportunity for children with additional needs would be to scrap the Friday spelling test. I cannot emphasise the amount of anticipatory anxiety and stress this can cause our children who (in a lot of cases) don’t benefit from it. Often they have memory difficulties. #EdChatIE
I think it’s so helpful to frame instruction in terms of Tiers. When we do this we realise that providing whole class instruction in the form of levelled groups is skipping Tier 1 entirely and moving everyone in the class straight to Tier 2. It places a ceiling on student’s achievement straight away
Absolutely. There are some schools working 10 teachers down in Dublin. Many schools SET departments have been decimated. The staffing crisis is one of the biggest barriers right now. #Edchatie
Tríona Cunnane@trionac.bsky.social · last yr.One of the biggest constraints in some areas is the retention and supply crisis. Anecdotally what would have been ‘learning support’ has been considerably squeezed by this. #edchatie
#EdChatIE 🧵 I have adjusted the Continuum of Support graphic to reflect the research into Mutli-Tiered Support Systems (MTSS). A very well known quote in this field is “You can’t intervene your way out of a Tier 1 problem.”
Delighted to see videos like this demonstrating the shortcomings of AI for academic writing. My times are full of ads for ‘undetectable AI’. It cannot replace human thought. youtu.be/Nkqf3Me1U8E?... #EdChatIE #AI #ChatGPT #AcademicWriting #PhDLife
How to write your PhD literature review WITHOUT using AI (Part 1)
YouTube video by James Hayton PhD
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🧵An important part of the primary experience is having a lovely time- adults ringfencing the unique state of childhood and ensuring that primary is a glorious place to be little. Playful and joyful are not the antonyms of high standards and aspiration.