Signe Edison
@SigneEdison
2nd grade teacher ∙ Building confident readers and fearless thinkers
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"A new study reveals that young children learn letters and word structures more effectively through handwriting than typing. Researchers taught 5- to 6-year-olds unfamiliar letters and pseudowords using either manual writing or keyboards. Those who practiced by hand performed…
A school district is ditching screens for good, old-fashioned paper and pencil This is the way
Reminder: Kids can’t love reading when they don’t know how to freaking read.
This bodes ill. Readers used to outnumber non-readers 2 to 1. Now non-readers outnumber readers 3 to 1. It's hard to imagine a change of that magnitude not having significant effects.
Some of the coldest life advice you’ll ever hear
It’s hard to call what’s happening now “progress” when a century ago ordinary people spent their scant free time reading Sophocles, Xenophon, the Brontës and now more than half the population can’t read above a sixth-grade level.
Parents: the kindest thing you can do for your kids might feel like the hardest. Dr. Daniel Amen says we’re accidentally raising mentally fragile children by rescuing them too often. When we rush forgotten homework or jackets to school, we quietly steal their chance to grow…
We love to say we’re building a ‘love of reading’. The evidence suggests we’re doing no such thing. Pleasure doesn’t lead to fluent reading; fluency makes pleasure possible. Reading for pleasure should be an outcome, not a curricular aim. Trying to teach enjoyment is missing the…
Unpopular opinion: Schools should extremely reduce the use of chrome books and return to paper and pencil being the main use. There is a connection between writing and how the brain learns.
The more time students spend on screens, the less they learn. Ed tech does not belong in schools (until it is thoroughly tested & proven to help). Excerpt from Jared Cooney Horvath's excellent new book, The Digital Delusion, in @TheFP thefp.com/p/we-gave-stud…
The most dangerous addiction today isn't a substance. Research on 100,000 people confirms that heavy short-form video use is just voluntary cognitive decline. We are actively training our brains to fail at hard tasks. If you can simply sit with a problem for 10 minutes without…
When therapy language replaces the language of virtue, you end up with people who care more about feeling good than being good. They stop asking, “Is this right?” and replace it with, “Does this feel good?”
May be the #1 parenting mistake of the past 20 years: parents treating iPads/tablets like mini-televisions. iPads/Tablets significantly damage a child’s brain. How can we stop parents from giving their child tablets? What can be done to get schools to stop using tablets?
“You’re not learning this for one future moment. You’re learning it because it strengthens your mind and because it helps you participate in the world with everyone else.”
A student asked, “When am I ever going to use this?” I gave my real answer, rooted in cognitive science and cultural literacy, not the fake “real-world examples” they see through. They won’t use it directly. That’s not the point. Here’s why you need to tell them the truth.👇🔗
“Contrary to popular belief, handwriting is not merely a motor skill; it is also a written language skill.…handwriting leads to better perception of letters in reading than does keyboarding. Forming letters by hand might help create the letter form in the mind’s eye better than…
“Academic accommodations for anxiety convey two harmful messages. First, they imply that the feared situation is truly dangerous. Public speaking, testing, or lunch with classmates are too risky for a student. Second, they suggest that the student can’t withstand the distress.…
It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
Schools should be low tech, high text. Not because tech is bad, but because literacy is the multiplier. Screens split attention; deep reading builds knowledge and comprehension. Books should do the heavy lifting.
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