{"id":31976,"date":"2023-03-21T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T01:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=31976"},"modified":"2023-03-21T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T01:34:07","slug":"welcome-wisdom-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/welcome-wisdom-instruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Wisdom & Instruction!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe fear of the <\/span>Lord<\/span> is the beginning of knowledge, but fools<\/span> despise wisdom and instruction.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Proverbs 1:7<\/span><\/p>\n

The more I read, the more confused I think I am becoming.\u00a0 I was asking my husband all sorts of questions and sharing quandaries in my thinking; not sure that any of it was connecting.\u00a0 My system 2 is on overload, I think. [1] But then again, maybe things are not as bad as I think and my thinking is getting better through this process.\u00a0 I am afraid to say, because according to what I am reading, either way, I am most likely to be wrong. [2] Do I sound confused and ready for spring break?<\/span><\/p>\n

Author Bobby Duffy states, \u201cT<\/span>here are all sorts of reasons why we\u2019re fooled into believing things that aren\u2019t true.\u00a0 We get some things wrong because others have fooled us – the media, our peers, politicians.\u00a0 But just as often, we\u2019re fooling ourselves, leaning on wrongful or wishful thinking rather than on facts when considering the world around us.\u00a0 We are motivated to use those facts in a particular way, and it\u2019s harder to resist that urge, it may seem.\u201d [3]\u00a0 I am not a regular news watcher.\u00a0 I catch bits and pieces here and there.\u00a0 I find that the news is distracting and often misleading.\u00a0 I get caught up in the emotion of the injustices, hatred displayed, language toward other humans, and start to look at the world from a negative perspective.\u00a0 While I desire to know and care about the happenings around the world because it affects people, I also find that it can fool us into thinking that things are worse than they seem, and as Duffy shares that some things are actually getting better. [4] <\/span>\u00a0From <\/span>How to Read Numbers<\/span><\/i> by Chivers, \u201cOften though, numbers in the news are presented without the context that you need to work out whether it\u2019s a big number or not.\u00a0 The most important piece of context is the denominator.\u201d [5] Knowing that not all of the perspectives or context are shared in the news, presented in an emotionally charged fashion towards one bias or another, makes it really difficult for observers to decipher what is true and believable.\u00a0 When presented, <\/span>facts are complex and are contingent on a selective view of the underlying reality, especially the underlying view of the one relaying the facts. [6]<\/span><\/p>\n

So what makes a fact true?\u00a0 Is only something determined by data, a fact?\u00a0 What differentiates a fact from a bias?\u00a0 Or a truth from a bias?\u00a0 Some biases are formed by truth, so if some believe that truth is relative, then. . .?\u00a0 If a bias were formed from truth, then wouldn\u2019t that be a truth?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The author pointed out that when people are asked to estimate a statistic, it is either grossly overestimated or underestimated.\u00a0 We overestimate what we worry about as much as worry about what we overestimate. Why so? It appears to be caused by a phenomenon called \u2018emotional innumeracy\u2019. This is when we are subconsciously influenced by personal and societal fears and prejudices.\u00a0 I see this happen so often in education when data is released and the pendulum swings to another framework, strategy or model.\u00a0 While this is not all bad, I see how some throw out new ideas because the pendulum has swung again, sometimes to a way of instruction that was common early in their career.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Right now, there is much debate about how students learn to read.\u00a0 You may have heard of the Science of Reading. [7] The way reading is being taught in schools has shifted as new data is released on how students learn to read.\u00a0 In many educational environments, the way reading was taught looked more like a Reader\u2019s Workshop model of instruction with learning to read through text immersion, repetition, relying on picture clues to decode unknown words and teaching reading strategies for decoding.\u00a0 However in recent years, this balanced literacy framework has been challenged as lead literacy researchers go after big names like Lucy Calkins (Columbia University) and Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas.\u00a0 If you are interested, listen to the podcast \u201cSold a Story\u201d about the current controversy. [8] The Science of Reading is redirecting educators to think critically about how students learn to read, focusing instruction more on the mechanics of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, phonological awareness, comprehension, vocabulary acquisition).<\/span><\/p>\n

In the state of Michigan, we have the Read by Grade Three Law. <\/span>In 2016, the Michigan Legislature passed a law that requires schools to identify learners who are struggling with reading and writing. The law states that <\/span>third graders may repeat third grade if they are more than one grade level behind beginning with the 2019-2020 school year<\/span>. [9]\u00a0 <\/span>More than three full school years into Michigan’s controversial Read by Grade Three law, 52% of Michigan’s third-grade students had a “reading deficiency” between first and third grade and the rates were higher among historically marginalized student groups, researchers reported. [10] <\/span>The Read by Grade Three Law, caused a lot of panic for administrators, educators, school leaders, parents, and students.\u00a0 <\/span>New developments to the law, post-Covid, are in the works as we <\/span>speak<\/span>, read.<\/span> \u00a0There are so many layers to how a child develops the identity of a reader that we must look at the bigger picture.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our view of reality is as much shaped by our concerns as the other way round. <\/span>In the book, <\/span>How to Read Numbers,<\/span><\/i> authors Tom and David Chivers reminded us that the most important piece of context is the denominator.\u00a0 Is 52% a big number?\u00a0 What\u2019s the denominator?\u00a0 Or as Duffy challenges, maybe<\/span> not everything in our version of reality is actually real and that we need to be open to consider that we might in fact be wrong.\u00a0 We can learn a lot from our wrongness.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe fear of the <\/span>Lord<\/span> is the beginning of knowledge, but fools<\/span> despise wisdom and instruction.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Proverbs 1:7<\/span><\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0 <\/span>Daniel Kahneman, <\/span>Thinking, Fast and Slow <\/span><\/i>(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013).<\/span>[2]\u00a0 Bobby Duffy, <\/span>Why We\u2019re Wrong About Nearly Everything:\u00a0 A Theory of Human Misunderstanding<\/span><\/i> (New York:\u00a0 Hachette Book\u00a0<\/span>Group, Inc.,\u00a0 2018),\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[3] Ibid, 153.<\/span><\/p>\n

[4] <\/span>Ibid, 230.<\/span><\/p>\n

[5] Tom and David Chivers, <\/span>How to Read Numbers<\/span><\/i> (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021), 63.<\/span><\/p>\n

[5] Ibid, 66.<\/span><\/p>\n

[6] Ibid, 115.<\/span><\/p>\n

[7] Amplify,<\/span> What is the Science of Reading<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>https:\/\/scienceofreading.amplify.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

[8] APM Reports,<\/span> Sold a Story Podcast<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>https:\/\/features.apmreports.org\/sold-a-story\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

[9] Michigan.gov,\u00a0 <\/span>What is the Read by Grade Three Law? <\/span><\/i>https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=read+by+grade+three+law&rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS1015US1015&oq=Read+by+Grade+Three+Law&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j0i22i30j0i390l3.6932j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

[10] Jennifer Chambers, \u201c<\/span>Study finds more than half of Michigan students between first, third grades had reading deficiency\u201d<\/span><\/i>, The Detroit News, February 14, 2022, accessed March 20, 2023.\u00a0 <\/span>https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/2022\/02\/14\/michigan-third-grade-reading-literacy-deficiency-study\/6757938001\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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