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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Schwinn’s biggest claim to fame was an all-hands-on-deck initiative designed to shift reading instruction from the terrible 3-cueing system that teaches kids to guess words, to one that is science-based.

    I listened to the Educate podcast from APM Reports. They did tons of stories on learning to read, the bad teaching, the good teaching, it was heartbreaking because of shit like this. The cueing system didn’t teach kids to sound out words. It taught them to guess at words based on context. The specific example they gave was that the illustration and the words around the one you didn’t know might make you guess “horse” when really it was “donkey.”

    I’m an avid reader and fan of education. This lady sounds like she knows her stuff. I’m pretty shocked, given all the other appointments. I’m full of dread about what might come next, but tepidly appreciate her appointment.











  • Their users wanted to defederate right away when they saw the rest of Lemmy. The people in charge (able to pull the switch) kept telling them to hold on and it’d get better. A small number of people made the decision for all of them. It’s all the rest for whom I genuinely feel bad. Their community was highjacked and, I think to them, attacked. I can have empathy for the average users.