My mate has that but by the time I managed to get my parents to agree to get me one, it was the huge 128K version with the plasticky keys!
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My mate has that but by the time I managed to get my parents to agree to get me one, it was the huge 128K version with the plasticky keys!
I notice that there isn’t an option for using the Z and X keys…. 😂
Very kind of you to say so, Eylan! I really hope that people find it useful / interesting. I am trying to do my bit to give people a reason to stick around here and hopefully get off X…
And, finally, if you are really interested in the Hansford meta-analysis and what it tells us, the thread below contains a link to my thoughts and also no less than 4 blogs by well-known educationalists!
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The primary school version is often than you must teach absolutely every subject in the National Curriculum and shouldn’t swap with another teacher because it would “deskill” you. 🙄
This was perhaps a little more polemical by @oldandrewuk.bsky.social than I would have been but I so also tense up when I hear people say that something “deskills” teachers. Maybe in some cases but don’t take it on trust…
open.substack.com/pub/andrewol...
Loved the title and content in this by Laura Burke! Slides are a useful tool but should not be at the expense of live modelling.
open.substack.com/pub/laurabur...
With the new Ofsted inspection guidance having a focus on EAL learning, this piece by Robert Sharples had lots of practical advice on how to get the best outcomes for EAL students.
www.learningvillage.net/article/Ofst...
Hi #EduSky - it’s time for my #Saturday3 of what I have been reading this week. As it happens, I have mainly been reading about Hansford’s meta-analysis of approaches to reading comprehension but leaving that aside for now, these caught my eye….
Wow - a Steplab and @suchmo83.bsky.social collaboration is pretty exciting!
This was a great little article!
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Great article on verse novels here and I loved the way it had Jon Biddle’s Bluesky handle at the end. 🤩
This episode was way more interesting / thought-provoking than I would have guessed from this summary. Raj has a fascinating background and stood up well to Adam’s sceptical questioning.
Oh - I should have thought of Brightstorm! Great choices.
A bad job is always a worry with our favourite book, isn’t it?
The cover of the The Star of Kazan featuring a bird in the foreground of an Alpine church
The cover of Varjak Paw by SF Said featuring a black cat with orange eyes staying directly at the viewer
Cover of I am Rebel by Ross Montgomery featuring a farm dog with a red neckerchief in the foreground with burning and destruction in the background.
Cover of The Murderer's Ape by Jakob Wegelius featuring many detailed drawing and an ape in a turban looking out from a black background.
What a great #KidsBookFriday topic! I want:
a period drama Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
an anime Varjak Paw by @whatsfsaid.bsky.social
a live-action I Am Rebel by @mossmontmomery.bsky.social
and (you know I will say this..)
a CGI Sally Jones in The Murderer's Ape by Jakob Wegelius
In addition to the valid points made by @samfr.bsky.social and @missmc.bsky.social, I would add more behaviour disruptions in secondary moderns (big effect on learning) and cohort effects. Completely disingenuous of grammar advocates to ignore secondary modern data.
And this by @carlhendrick.substack.com might be the best response of all. He has found something important (if unsurprising) in the data. Knowledge-building is the only intervention where the *effects improve over time*.
open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...
And this by @carlhendrick.substack.com might be the best response of all. He has found something important (if unsurprising) in the data. Knowledge-building is the only intervention where the *effects improve over time*.
open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...
The commentaries on this meta-analysis of reading comprehension keep coming! I link two more below in case people are trying to find all in one place. This by Olivia Mullins is a trenchant defence of knowledge-building approaches…
open.substack.com/pub/curricul...
I think there is something in this. I have characterised the baffling lack of movement from some sections of X to here as a collective action problem but I think it is exacerbated by discomfort at this world changing.
Aargh - is it harder than the original?! I haven’t had a couple of weeks to stare at it hopelessly…
I came here to say the same thing! There is another Cain’s Jawbone puzzle by Finnemore who solved the first - The Researcher’s First Murder.
It’s going to be a “legacy parties are not yet dead yet” sort of night. Have heard that Conservatives have won Hextable despite expecting to lose to Reform….
Even by his own high standards, this is a must read from Sam Freedman.
This is an area that I have become increasingly worried about and this has done absolutely nothing to assuage those worries….
Hope those in power are reading it!
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It does happen strangely quickly or maybe there is just a tipping point. Anyway, reading glasses come to us all in the end!
I managed to get to nearly 50 before needing reading glasses beating both my younger brother and sister but the decline does come on suddenly. One day you can really the small print and the next day you can’t! (I was a lawyer at the time).
Amazing! You must be proud.