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@DellaCCS @counterpane @toughloveforx I would have to disagree, my sone (3 now) has grown up digital and the resources have been great
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@toughLoveforx @DrTimony @DellaCCS It is dated but are you familiar with the Carr and Claxton work on assessing dispositions in PreK?
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@Counterpane @DellaCCS @toughLoveforx Very much agree on the sound games. Gonna look at materials for the PreK educator classe I teach
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@DellaCCS @toughloveforx @Counterpane Clicked on website I do like the letter and sound connection.
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@Counterpane @DellaCCS @toughLoveforx And I don't think there is any benefit to not exposing kids to the digital texts that shape our world
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@Counterpane @DellaCCS @toughLoveforx @drtimony I see no problem though in using common onsets and rimes, and looking a first sounds
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@shareski Sounds like an album title
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@toughLoveforx Can you give more info on Souns?
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@DellaCCS @toughloveforx @drtimony I totally agree, assessments in PreK can in no way be scripted more check list and field obsverations
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@toughLoveforx For parents there is also a cost benefit ratio involved, distance for commute etc. quality is just one variable
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@toughLoveforx My rule of thumb when I had to send my school: if the sales pitch opened up with talk of formal curriculum I left
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@toughLoveforx @DrTimony @DellaCCS If you can figure that out you would be one very rich man.
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@toughLoveforx @DrTimony @DellaCCS I would say 2 nurture excellence of tchrs we need to start building video case studies of better practice
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@toughLoveforx @DrTimony @DellaCCS 4 example ilooking at concepts of print it has 2 b done as observation in class. contxt Formalizing= bad
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@toughLoveforx @DrTimony @DellaCCS I am knew to the teacher prep in PreK-3 but for me it centers around high quality talk & play
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@DrTimony Was recent was it not? Or just rehashed for editorial? looked for study couldnt find it. idea that tchr obsv just as good in PreK
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@toughLoveforx @DrTimony @DellaCCS I support competitive grants 2 improve PreK but fallacy of reliable testing in PreK is silly
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@toughLoveforx @DrTimony @DellaCCS Need to find the Berliner editorial on correlations of PreK tchrs (way cheaper) and test scores so high
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@jonbecker Yes running Windows XP is always bad.
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@finleyt Thanks I have been working on it for awhile. I am piloting with a few folks and an iPad initiative with Boston Public Schools.
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