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Here’s a useful tip to help students improve their writing: Ask them to read their work aloud. While it may not feel as natural—or as modest—as reading silently, it can help them catch often-overlooked errors, new research shows. 🧵 1/4 https://t.co/SjxPETODcv

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I finalized the student's grades with a zero for the plagiarized essay he never redid, and my principal changed it to an 85 overnight. https://t.co/qTOkyIugoy

A teacher who has been in roles ranging from long-term sub to assistant principal has noticed four common strategies used by supportive school leaders. https://t.co/xNzJMENf1J

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Compared to their silent counterparts, the read-aloud students had sharper eyes, spotting 5 percentage points more errors. When it came to the more dastardly blunders—such as muddling they’re/their/there—the gap in accuracy increased to 12 percentage points. 3/4

In a 2022 study, college-age students were separated into two groups and asked to read mistake-riddled texts either silently or aloud. Textual errors ranged from simple spelling and grammatical gaffes to accidental word transpositions (such as swapping “stone” for “store”). 2/4

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It can make your life as a teacher a little easier. https://t.co/kP6Kklz8ZY

Three years ago today, Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police in her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky. Spurred by grief over Taylor's killing, this Louisville educator created a series of virtual “Safe Saturday” conversations about race. https://t.co/K4WB8W7Cgk

Students are beginning to program in @MyWebAR_com - here is a first try. Very cool! Thanks @JaimeDonally https://t.co/I4O0QIWxSG

Al O’Bannon on Community Supports for Young People https://t.co/bcAxKLwAsh via @Getting_Smart

20 Questions To Clarify Your Teaching For 2023 - TeachThought PD https://t.co/4Rk39QiZlG https://t.co/zH6gznFbhc

From the AI Getting Smarter Faster Than Expected Desk: Google's PaLM-E mushes together a language model and vision model and gets pretty good transfer learning...including capabilities more complex than the input data https://t.co/eydVkNDlp7 https://t.co/d1FcqoThIO