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A conversation with Emily Hanford on reading instruction in the U.S.
apmreports.orgI just watched one of the best talks ever given on what smartphones, social media, and ed-tech are doing to childhood and education. From Sophie Winkleman.
If you question the wisdom of the screen-based school day, you must watch, just 20 minutes:
https://t.co/QBdpNhRyVR
Jonathan Haidtx.comIn a world in which any skill that can't be leveraged for the maximum benefit of capitalism is seen as a dubious enterprise, it can be difficult to make the case for languages that are not widely spoken. Yet their continued existence matters, for a variety of compelling reasons. "First of all, it's just the right thing to do," says Daniel Bögre... See more
Mary Elizabeth Williams • Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
Why K-12 Education is Broken for High Achieving Kids | Niels Hoven (Mentava)
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Virtually every endangered language is endangered because its community was systematically targeted by genocide, forced cultural assimilation, some kind of political marginalization. On a practical level, language diversity encodes the sum of human cultural, historical and ecological knowledge. As a species, we lose knowledge when we lose
... See moreMary Elizabeth Williams • Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
This woman teaches 10th grade high school in America
She’s leaving the profession. She says kids can no longer read proficiently, they won’t pay attention, won’t listen to authority, they don’t think the Declaration of Independence is important, they’re writing their papers with ai like ChatGPT, they don’t know math,... See more
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