Technolandy

Day 12 (of 2025/26) all the ‘crises of faith’ in education

Okay… maybe just ‘many of them’…

There’s a reading crisis… https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/18/singapore-paid-reading-scheme

A math crisis… https://lnkd.in/p/dKH_STWv

No writing crisis if we realize that LLMs create more readable paragraphs than 80% of humanity…  but I am arguing with people across social media who love cursive – though they’re not using it… 

The worry of AI – sorry – SI (Super Intelligence 🙄) hmmm Si short for Sye short for Seymour short for See More because AI will see all of our keystrokes and then determine whether or not my bank card will work if I order an extra Frappuccino when I should be eating more broccoli… or charging me either more or less for my ferry crossing depending on whether or not I picked up litter around my school on my morning site check… “Si” sees all…. Bwah ha ha… but I digress…

What can our collaborations enable us to do better by taking some tasks off our ‘to do list’?

Is there a way to turn the power of doomscrolling into ‘learn-scrolling’ where alorithms positively influence behaviours.  That could help with the rigor crisis.

Though I suspect rigor will be practiced by many on November 19 (GTA 6 release day – expecting a high absentee rate in schools that day)

Solutions?
Follow the neurological differences and show learners how and why their brain reads, writes, and maths different (uniquely) than their peers. 

Normalize that some translate word into pictures; for some letters are in different colours depending on placement (so more than 26 ‘letters’ to know), etc.

Normalize that for some, numbers will vibrate and run off the page.

And for many, cursive causes more brain frustration than ‘connections’ than their peers..

Or some specific ideas:

Reading: embrace more whole language approaches (aka Science of Reading along with Joy of reading)

More graphic novels

More school based comic cons.

Full time school librarians (not providing prep time)

Mathing: embrace that the toolbox needs to have multiple ways to approach solving equations

More Recreational Mathematics

More playing with math

More explicit instruction showing the different ways to approach math problems

Identify where reading and math confuse each other.

Writing: more pencils. And more keyboards. 

Printing ✔️

Cursive for those for whom it is not frustrating (and always optional)

Typing as the means of easier editing and cleaner communication (at least until I see more people hand write their thoughts and post pictures of that in the social medias…

More time thinking about our thinking and unpacking neurologies. Not as easy as finding ‘the right textbook/set of instructions’, but much more meaningful.

Maybe the crisis isn’t that learners are different. Maybe the crisis is that we keep designing learning as though they aren’t.

Less ‘crises’ and more ‘opportunities’ for the 22nd Century Learner!