Mark Anderson on language, literacy, and schools as ecosystems — research, practice, and the conditions for learning.
Every now and then, I'll highlight an interesting research item I've happened across in greater depth. I will keep a running list of them posted here.
In this series, we expand on our previous exploration of language by considering what computational neural networks may be able to tell us about language and what language may be able to tell us about LLMs – and, ultimately…
After germinating the seed of the idea, I blogged for nearly a decade, some in collaboration with a fellow NYC Teaching Fellow, Will Johnson, riffing on the metaphor of a school as an ecosystem.
We have spent some time picking away at the tension between the generalizations and assumptions made around whether reading and writing development is natural or unnatural.
Is learning language natural? Is learning to read unnatural?
In this collection of posts, we examine two 2003 papers from Keith Stanovich, including one co-authored with Paula Stanovich, that remain highly relevant to conversations today about the science of reading. Through this review…