reading Archives - Laura Maniglia

Human or Artificial Intelligence?

by Laura Maniglia | Dec 21, 2022 | academic standing, active learning, attention & focus, cognitive skills, instruction, language, learning, reading, student engagement, writing

As discussed in previous blogs, writing is an active learning strategy that strongly supports cognitive skills. Kill the robot! In June 2020, OpenAI released its neural network, or chatbot, called GPT3. This machine learning model is capable of developing summaries...

Mind those Mistakes!

by Laura Maniglia | Nov 28, 2022 | active learning, attention & focus, cognitive skills, instruction, learning, mindset, reading, study skills

Making mistakes is inherently human, but people can take the opportunity to grow and learn from their errors. Studies have shown that when someone makes a mistake, the brain responds with two signals: “An initial response that indicates something has gone awry. . ....

The RIGHT tutoring

by Laura Maniglia | Nov 14, 2022 | academic standing, active learning, attention & focus, cognitive skills, instruction, interpersonal relations, learning, NAEP, reading, student engagement, students, teacher training

In an effort to remediate the learning loss that occurred over the last couple of years, public schools are implementing supplemental instruction, including individual or small group tutoring. Yet, educators need to be aware that all tutoring programs are not...

The Right Stuff (Questions)

by Laura Maniglia | Oct 14, 2022 | active learning, attention & focus, cognitive skills, instruction, learning, NAEP, public schools, reading, retrieval practice, study skills, teacher training, teachers, testing

The disappointing reports from NAEP and more recently, the ACT, point to a frightening learning loss that occurred during the pandemic. The NAEP reading scores are the lowest in thirty years, and the math scores showed a first-ever decrease. The ACT scores have also...

Sign here?

by Laura Maniglia | Oct 6, 2022 | academic standing, active learning, attention & focus, cognitive skills, instruction, learning, note-taking, reading, writing

In 2010, the Common Core included keyboarding skills as part of the new standards. With the proliferation of computers, instruction shifted from handwriting to keyboard skills. Consequently, a generation of Americans can neither read nor write cursive. I...

Decrease Digital!

by Laura Maniglia | Aug 1, 2022 | active learning, attention & focus, instruction, learning, reading, student engagement

A previous blog compared paper-based books with digital books for reading comprehension and concluded that the former had advantages over the latter. Evidence from the past 20 years shows the advantage of paper based comprehension. (The exception: narrative-only...

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