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Read These Laws Aloud to Anyone Who Cannot Decode Them For Any Reason—Political, Syntactic, Semantic, Phonetics, Dyslexia, Aliteracy, Illiteracy, Apathy, Fatigue, Cynicism, Madness, Don’t Give a Rat’s

Out with the Old Techne, In with the New

Pedagogical Autonomy: Misinterpreted, Misconstrued, and Mismanaged in Public Schools?

Assessing Civic Engagement: Writing A Writing Prompt

Santa the Independent Clause

Happy Holidays!

Leveling the Playing Fields

AI Literacy Act of 2023: Facing the Music

Literacy Instruction and the 21st Century Epistemological Crisis

Our National Literacy Instructional Nightmare

The Will of Leaf-Cutter Ants: Nature as Codex

How to Teach Wisdom Literacy with AI: Poems, Prayers, Promises

Being Out and Stepping In: Finding a Foothold in the Odyssey

Predictability: From Parmenides to OpenAi CEO Sam Altman and Beyond

A New Kind of Plagiarism: Simulated Literacy

Building a Perspective: How to Teach Vocabulary in the Age of AI

COG3 Literacy Teacher Professional Development Discussion Starters: Sample AI-Produced Inquiry Unit Designs

COG3: Designed to be Implemented in Distributed Space to Advance Knowledge Sharing Beyond the Four Corners of the Textbook

Conservative Restoration of Literacy Education

Distributing Cognition in Collaborative Academic Group Work with AI Support

Chasing Silly Bulls in the Stream of Speech

Starting an Assignment Off on the Red Foot

Deep Learning: Collaborative AI-Assisted Assessment of Constitutional Knowledge in High School History and Civics Classes

Making the Strange Familiar

Passing Democracy’s Test

Part 2: Passing the Constitution Test

An Invitation: RSVP ltRRtl

Civic Literacy in a Junior Year High School History Classroom: Fact Checking a Debate

Thinking About You and Thanking You for the Gift of Your Readership

Put Your Own Mask on First: The Art of Saving Lives

The Paradox of World Knowledge

With Wisdom Comes Fissures and Cysts

Even the Bot Knows Something About SoR

Knowledge Planting, Watering, and Harvesting

On Guard: Beware of Straw Men Riding Wooden Horses

Suspicious Minds Want to Know

Reviewing the “Knowledge Matters Review Tool”

Storage of Knowledge and Other Materials

Fearful Symmetry and Trembling

Reading the Human Heart

Determinism and Literacy: False Coordination

Humanizing Pedagogy in the Age of War and the Science of Reading

Here’s Justin!

Reading the Science of the Dead

Storying and ReStorying in Literacy, in Life, and in the Classroom

Reading the Headlines of American Culture: “If Not Jim Jordan for Speaker, Then Whom?”

ChatGPT as an Extension of a Classroom Dictionary

MorphoSyntax and GraphoPhonics: A House of Mirrors and Echoes

Reading the Evidence from Brain Scans

Reading: Part Chess, Part Guess

Systematic and Explicit Syntactic Instruction in Beginning Reading: The Syntactic Cueing Systems

Quacking Like A Duck

Systematic, Explicit, Ideological Science—A Mushrooming Cloud of Confused Legislation

On Interludes and Electric Twelves

Trust but Verify: Credibility on the Line

Command-Based vs Exchange-Based Interactions with Language Bots

An Open Book Test

Command Performance: Applying AI as a Tool for Teacher Reflection

Update #2 on Jeffrey: Assessing the Teaching and Reading of Ancient and Medieval Literature

Hybrid Literacy and Oracy: Conversations Between Humans and Natural Language Bots

Topic Maintenance Revisited

Update on Jeff’s Seminar

Sentiment Analysis: Emily Dickinson and the Bot

Commonsense Reasoning with Plain Vanilla Knowledge

Merge: Language as a Freeway

Common Sense: Knowledge Etched in Words

Knowing Nothing, Knowing Everything: Complete Thoughts with Subjects and Predicates

Talking Writing with Dr. Sandra Murphy: A Podcast

A Simulated Collaboration: Writing a Short Story with the Bot

Collaborative Intelligence: Distributed Metacognition and Simulated Conversations in Academic Literacy Events

Irony In Action

Leonardo and the Tyger in the Looking Glass

Reading Instruction in General Education: Transformation through Self-Authorship and Strategic Literacy

Acting Like a Reader, Reading Like a Director

The Value of an Apology

Writing an Essay of Personal Philosophy

Using Open AI GPT4 to Revise a Catalogue Description of a Course

Asking ChatGPT for Assistance with a Reading Assignment: Making Friends vs No Nonsense

Heroic Virtues in Literature and Life

Writing between the Shadows: Leonardo’s Sfumato

Reflections on the Calming Effect

The Through Line: 1880, 1965, 2013

A Conversation with GPT4: Stories of Divine Sovereignty and Free Will

Comprehensible Input, Comprehensible Information, Comprehensible Expertise

Information about the authors of Florida’s new whitewashed standards for Social Studies education…

Justin’s Coda

A Podcast with Justin Moore, Future Teacher, on the New Florida U.S. History Standards for Public Schools

California Dreaming

A Look at the Florida Social Study Standards from the Perspective of a History Professor

Systematic, Explicit Instruction in Racism: Florida’s 21st Century History Curriculum

Henry Ford, Franklin Bobbitt, and Writers on Strike: (Dis)assembling the Assembly Line

Creativity and Risk-Taking: Frisking the Bot

Federal Trade Commission Investigation of Open AI and its Large Language Model Commences

A Quick FYI Re AI

Hollywood Writers and Existential Insight Into Meaning

AI Can Do This… Wait! No It Can’t!!

Please Please Me

Large Language Models: The Sixth Resource

Subscribers Only

Making Cheating Unthinkable

Algorithms, AI Training, and Literacy Pedagogy

Independence Day 2023

Mosaic Plagiarism

Simulated Writing with Integrity: Engaging Creative Intelligence through Empathy

Swimming in the Pacific Ocean

Let’s Chat aBot Critical Assistance with Critical Thinking

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Chit Chatter with GPT4: Privacy, Neutrality, Claims and Evidence, Emotions

Risks and Rewards of Unsupervised Digital Readers and Writers inside Self-Regulated Human Learning through Literacy

I’m Still on the Job…

Disciplined Reading in an Undisciplined 21st Century Meltdown

Disarming the Force of Ignorance: Legalizing Reading to Know

Where Truth Goes to Die

Board of Education v. Pico, 1982

California Dreaming: Reimagined Early Childhood Education

Tacit and Bounded Knowledge

Leveled Readers in Aligned Schools

The Great Equalizer

Assessment of Clinical Competence in Family Medicine

Measuring Up in K-12 Classrooms: Solutions to Failures of NCLB, Race to the Top, and CCSS to Center Public Schools for Children

Riding to Freedom on a Raft Made of Words

Deep Reading in Close Quarters

You Have to Press the Unmute Button: Jassi Kaur—First Year Honors Student at California State University, Sacramento

On Flipping the Script: An Open Conversation with Jayne Marlink about David “Close Reading” Coleman

Portfolios Anyone?

Learning in Action

Justin Moore, Undergraduate, California State University, Sacramento: Learning to Read and Write During the Time of NCLB and Common Core State Standards

Dr. Jeffrey Brodd, Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies: Beyond the Four Corners of Ancient, Classic, and Sacred Texts

Increasing Test Scores on Expository Writing Exams through Art Education

Using the Core as the Core Was Meant to Be Used: A Talk with Karen Smith, Area 3 Writing Project Director (Recently Retired)

Addendum

Teaching Close Reading Strategies

A video to help teachers teach close readers to get the correct answers…

Good-Enough Reading: How Close is Enough?

The California Writing Project:

Captives of Amnesia

Up or down?

School Reform in Arkansas

Artificial Intelligence and Reading Comprehension: The Coming Storm

In Retrospect (So Far): Three Positives and Two Serious Flaws in the Common Core State Standards

Arkansas, not Alabama

What is a Child to a Deregulated Capitalist?

P. David Pearson: An Analysis of the Historic Failure of the Common Core State Standards in the United States

On Not Starting from Scratch: Making a More Perfect Public School System

Termination

Teaching Writing as Thinking: A Tale of Two Cities

Pauline Holmes Part 2: Writing Instruction at the Secondary Level in the Age of the Core

Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking and Writing

Dr. Chao Danny Vang, Director of Equity and Access at California State University, Sacramento: Hmong Son, American Scholar

Pauline Holmes Discusses Secondary Writing Instruction in Northern California

Two Questions from David’s Reflections: A Penny for Your Thoughts

Part 2: P David Pearson Reflects on the Meaning of the Whole Language Movement for Today

Bubbles Makes a Home Visit

A Talk with P David Pearson on Whole Language and the Science of Reading: Part 1

Sharing Epistemic Authority Among Experts and Learners

External Accountability and Schools: An Odd Coupling in America

A View of Writing through the Wrong End of a Telescope

For Whom Do Public Schools Exist?

Phonics in College?

On the Tip of My Tongue

A Problem at the Core

Words as Maps for Meanings

Inner Speech: A Coda

Inner Speech

A Matter of Semantics

Vocabulary and Comprehension

EDTE 384: Secondary School Reading Methods Course

Zoo Phonics

Uh Oh…

SSR on the Hot Seat

Alphabet Soup

P David Pearson on Cognitive Clarity, Organization of Memory, and the Future of Reading Research

The Short End of the Stick

Double Checking

Running on Metacognition

P David Pearson on the Complex View of Reading

A Sticky Note for Matt’s Computer

Leveled Readers?

Decodable Books vs. Leveled Readers: The View from the Reading League

FYI

Where Science Ends and Pragmatics Begins

A Favor

Bubbles and Barney Talk LETRS

A Modest Proposal

More Abstract Words

Abstract Words

The Distance Between Scientific Theory and Reflective Practice

Embedded Pictographs