Dee
@playfulclassroom.bsky.social
🇮🇪 PhD candidate - Literacy Education
🍎 Playful Classroom
🎶 Lover of play, music, picturebooks, tea and all things creative.
#SOR #EdChatIE
🍎 Playful Classroom
🎶 Lover of play, music, picturebooks, tea and all things creative.
#SOR #EdChatIE
@suchmo83.bsky.social Look what I spotted in the library at University of Central Florida!
September 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
@suchmo83.bsky.social Look what I spotted in the library at University of Central Florida!
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We are ready and waiting to welcome you to the 60th UKLA International Conference! You'll find us in the Tithebarn building, just behind the superlambanana! #thisismyukla #uklaliverpool25
June 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
We are ready and waiting to welcome you to the 60th UKLA International Conference! You'll find us in the Tithebarn building, just behind the superlambanana! #thisismyukla #uklaliverpool25
Rosenshine’s Principles Revisited - a real deep dive into effective instruction with Tom Sherrington today. I love learning about all of this because it is relevant to all subjects. #EdChatIE #ScienceOfLearning #InAction @teacherhead.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Rosenshine’s Principles Revisited - a real deep dive into effective instruction with Tom Sherrington today. I love learning about all of this because it is relevant to all subjects. #EdChatIE #ScienceOfLearning #InAction @teacherhead.bsky.social
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To watch the recording of the outstanding webinar from edWeb, Orthographic Mapping: Making Words Stick, w/ Molly Ness & Dr. Katie Pace Miles click on the link below & be sure not to miss their related book from Scholastic! I pre-ordered mine & can't wait!
Watch here:
media.edweb.net/edWebinar/?v...
Watch here:
media.edweb.net/edWebinar/?v...
May 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
To watch the recording of the outstanding webinar from edWeb, Orthographic Mapping: Making Words Stick, w/ Molly Ness & Dr. Katie Pace Miles click on the link below & be sure not to miss their related book from Scholastic! I pre-ordered mine & can't wait!
Watch here:
media.edweb.net/edWebinar/?v...
Watch here:
media.edweb.net/edWebinar/?v...
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Coming up this Wednesday! Join @clarafiorentini.bsky.social and myself for a special webinar on lighthouses and literacy. Packed with creative, end-of-year ideas. Lots of inspiration to carry you through the last few weeks! literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/nG9rC...
May 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Coming up this Wednesday! Join @clarafiorentini.bsky.social and myself for a special webinar on lighthouses and literacy. Packed with creative, end-of-year ideas. Lots of inspiration to carry you through the last few weeks! literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/nG9rC...
Check out the latest edition of InTouch magazine for an article that I wrote about Ireland’s achievements in literacy. As the title suggests, we are doing very well internationally, but that’s not the whole story. Read the article to find out more…
(pg.45)
intouch.into.ie/html5/reader...
(pg.45)
intouch.into.ie/html5/reader...
May 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Check out the latest edition of InTouch magazine for an article that I wrote about Ireland’s achievements in literacy. As the title suggests, we are doing very well internationally, but that’s not the whole story. Read the article to find out more…
(pg.45)
intouch.into.ie/html5/reader...
(pg.45)
intouch.into.ie/html5/reader...
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Read this yesterday which was similar - if the point is to learn by reading/writing, it's probably worth doing the hard/long way. I find LLMs to be enormously useful in other spaces (it's actually pretty good, I think, about teaching Socratically)
claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/
claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/
I'd rather read the prompt
I have literally never seen LLM writing that actually improved my life.
claytonwramsey.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Read this yesterday which was similar - if the point is to learn by reading/writing, it's probably worth doing the hard/long way. I find LLMs to be enormously useful in other spaces (it's actually pretty good, I think, about teaching Socratically)
claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/
claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/
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Someone asked me why I don’t let AI summarize reading for me or write drafts and the answer is that either of those shortcuts would eliminate the process of thinking. And the thinking is the important part.
May 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Someone asked me why I don’t let AI summarize reading for me or write drafts and the answer is that either of those shortcuts would eliminate the process of thinking. And the thinking is the important part.
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Check out my first post ‘Planning for Infant Classes: Why English Shouldn’t Be Sliced Into Separate Pieces’ open.substack.com/pub/readwrit...
Planning for Infant Classes
Why English Shouldn’t Be Sliced Into Separate Pieces
open.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Check out my first post ‘Planning for Infant Classes: Why English Shouldn’t Be Sliced Into Separate Pieces’ open.substack.com/pub/readwrit...
Come along with me for day 2 of the @esai-irl.bsky.social conference and some dreadful tea in Athlone. (Hotels, please up your tea game. You could dance a donkey on this.) #EdChatIE
April 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Come along with me for day 2 of the @esai-irl.bsky.social conference and some dreadful tea in Athlone. (Hotels, please up your tea game. You could dance a donkey on this.) #EdChatIE
Looking forward to this! I recognise many names on the schedule… good luck all! #EdChatIE
April 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Looking forward to this! I recognise many names on the schedule… good luck all! #EdChatIE
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I am ✨sat✨ and so excited @playfulclassroom.bsky.social @treasabowe.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 👏
April 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I am ✨sat✨ and so excited @playfulclassroom.bsky.social @treasabowe.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 👏
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The Literacy Association of Ireland’s biannual publication ‘Literacy News’ is ready to read now! Lots of fabulous insights, ideas, and inspiration for sparking (/maintaining!) the joy of reading Please do share with anyone who might be interested ✨ #EdChatIe 💜
📖 👉🏻 heyzine.com/flip-book/74...
📖 👉🏻 heyzine.com/flip-book/74...
April 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The Literacy Association of Ireland’s biannual publication ‘Literacy News’ is ready to read now! Lots of fabulous insights, ideas, and inspiration for sparking (/maintaining!) the joy of reading Please do share with anyone who might be interested ✨ #EdChatIe 💜
📖 👉🏻 heyzine.com/flip-book/74...
📖 👉🏻 heyzine.com/flip-book/74...
Excellent webinar this evening with @suchmo83.bsky.social with practical strategies for reading lessons that are grounded in up to date research. More of this please @clanavtra.bsky.social ! 👏🏻
#EdChatIE #PrimaryReadingSimplified
#EdChatIE #PrimaryReadingSimplified
March 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Excellent webinar this evening with @suchmo83.bsky.social with practical strategies for reading lessons that are grounded in up to date research. More of this please @clanavtra.bsky.social ! 👏🏻
#EdChatIE #PrimaryReadingSimplified
#EdChatIE #PrimaryReadingSimplified
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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
February 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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“Should we build a fence at the top of the cliff, or should we put an ambulance at the bottom?” Right now, we’re seeing far more ambulances than fences in our school districts…🚑
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
@ehanford.bsky.social
#ScienceOfReading #PupsAndPodcasts
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
@ehanford.bsky.social
#ScienceOfReading #PupsAndPodcasts
February 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“Should we build a fence at the top of the cliff, or should we put an ambulance at the bottom?” Right now, we’re seeing far more ambulances than fences in our school districts…🚑
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
@ehanford.bsky.social
#ScienceOfReading #PupsAndPodcasts
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
@ehanford.bsky.social
#ScienceOfReading #PupsAndPodcasts
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🧵 Reading Recovery 🧵
You are probably aware that Reading Recovery has come into question a lot in recent years. This is because many teachers and parents are now aware of reading research, and how the Reading Recovery does not align with it very well. 1/n
#EdChatIE #ReadingRecovery
You are probably aware that Reading Recovery has come into question a lot in recent years. This is because many teachers and parents are now aware of reading research, and how the Reading Recovery does not align with it very well. 1/n
#EdChatIE #ReadingRecovery
February 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
🧵 Reading Recovery 🧵
You are probably aware that Reading Recovery has come into question a lot in recent years. This is because many teachers and parents are now aware of reading research, and how the Reading Recovery does not align with it very well. 1/n
#EdChatIE #ReadingRecovery
You are probably aware that Reading Recovery has come into question a lot in recent years. This is because many teachers and parents are now aware of reading research, and how the Reading Recovery does not align with it very well. 1/n
#EdChatIE #ReadingRecovery
February 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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I think a massive opportunity for children with additional needs would be to scrap the Friday spelling test. I cannot emphasise the amount of anticipatory anxiety and stress this can cause our children who (in a lot of cases) don’t benefit from it. Often they have memory difficulties. #EdChatIE
February 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I think a massive opportunity for children with additional needs would be to scrap the Friday spelling test. I cannot emphasise the amount of anticipatory anxiety and stress this can cause our children who (in a lot of cases) don’t benefit from it. Often they have memory difficulties. #EdChatIE
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I think it’s so helpful to frame instruction in terms of Tiers. When we do this we realise that providing whole class instruction in the form of levelled groups is skipping Tier 1 entirely and moving everyone in the class straight to Tier 2. It places a ceiling on student’s achievement straight away
February 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I think it’s so helpful to frame instruction in terms of Tiers. When we do this we realise that providing whole class instruction in the form of levelled groups is skipping Tier 1 entirely and moving everyone in the class straight to Tier 2. It places a ceiling on student’s achievement straight away