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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · Jan 24

ChatGPT-ed myself, out of curiosity. Here's what I got:

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 2d

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ELT methodology is chronically under-defined: When we teach without definition, we teach in the dark

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 2d

Of course, the main takeaway is that decoding skills benefit greatly from rich, varied, & challenging texts if they're sufficiently scaffolded. Levelled readers alone are insufficient to really push & develop students' decoding skills & prosody plays an important (central?) role.

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 2d

An interesting paper on a protocol for developing reading (decoding) fluency: ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #OpenAccess

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 2d

I guess this underlines just how specific learning tends to be; "Memory is the residue of thought." - Daniel Willingham

i.e. We remember what we think about.

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 2d

The lack of focus on meaning may account for the relatively weak vocabulary learning vs. strong reading (decoding) fluency.

In other words, the gains were "mechanical."

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 2d

Processing for deeper meaning contributes strongly to more durable learning.

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 2d

As the authors mention, they need to integrate comprehension into the "sounding out" routine... easier said than done!

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 2d

Essentially, practice at decoding & sounding out words, phrases, & patterns but no comprehension requirement. A “surface feature only” strategy. Incidental interpretation for meaning will more than likely tend towards discreet facts & ideas rather than deeper, more connected & complex meaning.

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 4d

When fourth graders practised fluency with challenging texts rather than levelled readers, their reading rate and accuracy improved more substantially. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 6d

NEW BLOG POST
ELT methodology is chronically under-defined: When we teach without definition, we teach in the dark

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 7d

Ask them if they'd be OK with that kind of thinking from the judge, jury, & lawyers if they were on trial for murder.

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 7d

Thoughts about current #ELT #InstructionalDesign practices.

How far would you agree or disagree?

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely! Back in the late 1990s, John Truscott kicked off a debate on low efficacy of explicit form focused corrective feedback on students' writing & speaking. Even though the lit reviews & evidence he presented were incontrovertible, the debate still continues to this day. Nothing has changed!

Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 9d

New meta-analysis finds AI feedback performs about as well as human feedback, but I think this is more to do with how poor human feedback has been is rather than how good AI feedback is. In other words, the bar is quite low here. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 10d

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Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · 11d

There is a lot of talk about LLMs revolutionizing education. But once you get into it, things are not that trivial.

Here, we summarize the questions that emerge when trying to implement AI Tutors nationwide.

Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

#edusky

authors.elsevier.com/a/1ltdo4sIRv...

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah, I can't spell Ofsted!

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 12d

A personal bane of mine is being required to attend ineffective & therefore pointless & time-wasting CPD sessions.

The UK's regulator, Ofstead, is now targeting such wasteful CPD: schoolsweek.co.uk/goodbye-cpd-...

Ofsted is helping to put a welcome end to ineffective CPD

The new framework ushers in a new era of professional learning - and that's so much more than a semantic shift

schoolsweek.co.uk

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 12d

As a highly experienced & well-informed teacher, I'm fully capable of directing my own professional development & seeking help with that. Some degree of support from employers would, of course, be of great benefit.

Ofsted is helping to put a welcome end to ineffective CPD

The new framework ushers in a new era of professional learning - and that's so much more than a semantic shift

schoolsweek.co.uk

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 13d

My message to you in case I've been kidnapped & am messaging under coercion:

"I get all my most trustworthy scientific knowledge from Facebook, X, & LinkedIn."

Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 13d

RIP Jane Goodall 😭. Her contributions to our knowledge & what it means to be human or ape have made the world a better place. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Go...

Jane Goodall - Wikipedia

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 17d

Is a Noisy Classroom a Thinking Classroom? open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 17d

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What’s happening in your mind when you write an essay? A look inside the writer’s thought processes

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 18d

A convincing article on why precision & specificity in formative (diagnostic) assessment matters by David Didau: daviddidau.substack.com/p/when-the-b...

When the bridge is down: how poor assessment creates needless struggle

Why mistaking noise for rigour and silence for low ability leaves the most vulnerable students stranded

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 20d

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Transfer appropriate processing in language learning: A fundamental principle

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Matt Bury, MA Online & Distance Ed & AppLing 🇪🇸 @matbury.bsky.social · 21d

Great way to put personalisation & relevance:

"A curriculum should be a public inheritance, not a private playlist. Its test is not whether a child sees their reflection in every unit. It is whether, by the end, they can see further than they could before."

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Tony Giles on X: "A curriculum should be a public inheritance, not a private playlist. Its test is not whether a child sees their reflection in every unit. It is whether, by the end, they can see further than they could before." / X

A curriculum should be a public inheritance, not a private playlist. Its test is not whether a child sees their reflection in every unit. It is whether, by the end, they can see further than they could before.

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