On January 30, Natalie will be presenting at the #LiteracyMatters Conference sponsored by the Aldine, TX, school district. Other speakers include Superintendent LaTonya Goffney, Susan Lambert, Robin McClellan, Karen Vaites and Janise Lane. Registration is free! Click
here for more information.
Natalie will be presenting on
The Knowledge Gap at this year's Plain Talk About Literacy conference, sponsored by the Center for Development & Learning, on February 9 and 10. Click
here to see a list of all sessions, and click
here to register.
Technology has been touted as the way to revolutionize education, but those predictions haven't panned out. One big reason: education technology, like the education system itself, is premised on assumptions that conflict with what scientists have discovered about how learning works. Read more in Natalie's latest post for Forbes by clicking
here.
What's wrong with the concept of meritocracy? Critics argue that it unfairly rewards academic achievement, because intelligence is largely genetic and distributed unequally. But that overlooks what schools COULD do--but haven't yet--to unleash the "merit" that many students possess. Click
here to read more in Natalie's latest post for Forbes.
Two new podcasts! Click
here to listen to Natalie's conversation with Greg Ashman, an Australian educator and researcher, on his podcast Filling the Pail. And click
here to watch Natalie's conversation with Emily Freitag and Christina Gonzales of Instruction Partners, on their podcast Rethinking Intervention (there's also a transcript available).
Check The Knowledge Gap page of this website for a complete list of interviews, articles, etc.
