Haudenosaunee/ Oneida Nation / Dad / Teacher/ views own / I'm w @learn_thru_it / header Fre Sonneveld / he, him, his

Hamilton, Ontario
Joined February 2014
You know that factoid about 65% of kids working in jobs not yet invented? Here's the sixty year history. longviewoneducation.org/fiel…
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Anyone else seeing a trend of dyslexia associations suggesting that accommodations on testing are somehow getting in the way of measuring what kids can really do? The Ontario IDA, for example, suggests that we only have good reading scores because of accommodations,
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Anyone else seeing a trend of dyslexia associations suggesting that accommodations on testing are somehow getting in the way of measuring what kids can really do? The Ontario IDA, for example, suggests that we only have good reading scores because of accommodations,
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as if they think the true picture would be revealed if we take them away from kids. I can’t see how that fits with how we would usually see disability and accommodations outside of reading / school. I’m trying to wrap my head around this.
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“Their education must consist not merely of training of the mind, but of a weaning from the habits and feelings of their ancestors, and the acquirements of the language, art and customs of civilized life.” -Egerton Ryerson
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“Their education must consist not merely of training of the mind, but of a weaning from the habits and feelings of their ancestors, and the acquirements of the language, art and customs of civilized life.” -Egerton Ryerson #OntEd
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I haven’t written much in a long time. Here’s my take on the study that found astonishing effect sizes for UFLI. It’s not a criticism of UFLI, but a critique of the research paper. I think research in education owes something to teachers. longviewoneducation.org/what…
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Tonight at 7 PM ET! Teacher Panel: The Impact of SoR Mandates Join this open panel discussion webinar with four teachers addressing the impact that SoR mandates have had on their teaching and students’ learning. Register: minnstate.zoom.us/webinar/re…
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NEW: My piece for the Observer on how I was so deep into my investigation into Cambridge Analytica that I failed to realise that Hannah - my ex's daughter - was facing a human version of it: a stalker who was harvesting her data and weaponising it against her. 1/ theguardian.com/world/2025/m…
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Elbows up! But, as a historian, I need to point out that the new "I Am Canadian" video getting a lot of buzz this week quickly glosses over Canada's own history of aggressive colonialism - the kind of antagonism the video challenges - and we should talk about it 🧵
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Definitely worth a read and sharing with parents!!!
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i think some people need reminding of this
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A question @haemesmer : on a podcast, I heard you talk about orthographic mapping as if having a word read to you would be more like memorizing and sounding it out would be orthographic mapping. Is the difference that sharp (assuming child has alphabetic principle)?
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Perhaps if the child was attending closely while an adult read it? Thank you.
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