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After a year of digital learning and virtual teaching, let’s hear it for the joy of a real book
We know COVID-19 and its associated changes to our work and learning habits caused a marked increase in the use of technology. More...
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Jun 24, 20214 min read


Sugata Mitra and the Hole in the Research
In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne escapes from the titular jail by finally crawling through the sewage pipe, clawing his way,...
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Jun 24, 20216 min read


Independent research and the Arrowsmith Program
The Arrowsmith Program has promised ‘brain training’ and increased ‘neuroplasticity’ since the 1970s. How has it responded to a wave of...
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Jun 24, 202117 min read


Mentioning the WARs: Let’s do the timed WARP again
The assessment of reading ability has a long history in educational psychology and special education. Burt, Schonell, Vernon, Neale, to...
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Jun 24, 20218 min read
Remote learning didn’t affect most NSW primary students in our study academically – but wellbeing
There have been some reports students fell behind during the remote learning period in 2020. By Jenny Gore, Andrew Miller, Jess Harris...
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Jun 24, 20214 min read


Does the Year 1 Phonics Check lead to improved reading outcomes?
The recent announcement that all NSW public schools will administer the Year 1 Phonics Check in 2021 has been widely welcomed. The...
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Jun 24, 20216 min read


Are we there yet? The long, steep and winding road towards improved reading instruction
All parents will be familiar with the pleading question from the back seat on long (or sometimes not so long) car journeys, normally...
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Jun 24, 20219 min read


But what if there was a screening test for COVID-19?
While COVID-19 plays havoc with our minds, our healthcare workers and our economy, let’s just imagine that a COVID-19 Screening Check was...
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Jun 24, 20215 min read


Issue 11, June 2021
In this edition, we tackle a critical question: are we there yet, on the long winding road towards improving reading instruction? Pamela...
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Jun 23, 20212 min read


On sequences of instruction
I received an interesting question from a third-grade teacher in Frankfort, Kentucky (US). She writes, “In my district we do not have a...
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Jun 23, 20213 min read
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