We are describing two realities. A tale of two language systems. One is the inside-out real life learned auditory discriminations that children non consciously make in order to bootstrap their participation in their real world language environment. The other is the outside-in abstractly analytical set of phonemic conventions linguists and orthographists have developed and reading […]
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There is no ethically legitimate shortcut to population-scale change that bypasses population-scale learning. Ideas that posit change propagating from a small enlightened subset to transform the many—whether framed as morphogenetic fields, 100th Monkey transference, spiritual awakenings, or “miracles”—share a common flaw: they erase agency. They imagine that human transformation can happen without participation, consent, or
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I had been sharing images of the latest U.S. reading scores since 2003. Usually in the form of stop signs, like these from 2003, 2017, and 2023. Watching these scores remain so close to flatline for 20 years led me to create a video called “A Brief Tour Through Decades of U.S. Reading Scores“.
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Note: This page assumes you have reviewed enough of the Children of the Code resources to have an understanding of what reading is, why so many struggle to learn to read, and the profound consequences to individuals and to society of our continuing literacy crisis. Orchestrating Reading – Pronunciation Cues – Online Learning Support Net
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The founders of the U.S. created a framework that liberated, enabled, and ignited a more learning-oriented way of being united. Not perfect, but more perfect. More perfectly conducive to a new kind of collaborative learning that ultimately lead the U.S. to become the most intelligent nation on the planet. Today, predatorily and parasitically
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Humanity’s Learning Challenge Index of other dAilogues Preview – excerpts from the summaries of this conversation by three different Ai platforms: Gemini: I believe that by integrating the insights from our conversation (below) into my own learning processes, I can contribute to the development of AI systems that are not only intelligent but also wise,
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Learning to Learn with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Do you still agree, as you did in our prior conversation (https://learningstewards.org/whatshouldtheylearn/) that “In the face of such unprecedented uncertainty, nothing within a child’s potential agency is (or can be) more universally relevant to their future than how well they can learn when they get there“?
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Learning Scopes (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Learning Scopes? Learning scopes are guidelines that outline the breadth and depth of knowledge and skills that students should develop within a particular subject or discipline. They are typically expressed in terms of specific content standards, performance expectations, or learning objectives. Learning scopes are important for
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Core Agreements About Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Throughout the conversation that follows can you keep all of the following prior agreements in mind so that your responses are considering what we have learned to together in the past? In earlier conversations, we agreed: that children can’t help but learn to become
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Aligning Learning Concepts (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues In one sentence. please promise that this from this point on in this conversation, in each and everyone of your responses, that you will construct your responses, in conception and representation, within congruence with, or in explicitly demarcated difference with, the share understandings about learning
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