When I was young, we were taught that to improve your writing, you needed to be reading books. And to improve your spelling, you needed to be writing. Many students these days are typing homework/assignments rather than handwriting them. Computers have spell checkers - so kids aren't pushed to stop and think about their spelling, they have no need to memorise spelling because the computer can correct it for them. Distributed cognition means their brain isn't required to perform sophisticated tasks as kids of the past used to. When I read older literature, such as that from Edwardian or Victorian times, I'm impressed by the quality of the writing, the variety of vocabulary. Today, even news organisations have sacked subeditors and kids are exposed to articles littered with spelling mistakes. Standards have been declining for generations, and I hope we can halt this. But when a kid has a choice between reading a book or using social media to interact with their peers, sadly, most kids are going to choose social media... or even video games.
Spell check is good up to a point. When I rite a letter it does not pick that up. I went to the end of the street and turned rite is fine with spell check. I do not know whether the weather will be hot today. Which witch is which.
I wouldn't hold my breath on this problem getting fixed anytime soon. There's currently not much incentive to raise people to be smart, critical thinkers (for which literacy is the key). Right now it's, in fact, the opposite where governments, banks, and media prefer if you can't properly scrutinize what they get up to. The current 'factory-floor' style education system was created because those in power saw it as a way to secure even more power back when Western nations were industrializing. They needed workers with basic arithmetic, basic language (grammar, logic, and maybe rhetoric) in order to accomplish the tasks required by an early industrial economy. In other words, things only change when power demands it to change and right now there isn't any real demand for improved literacy. As evidenced by this very video, for example, the powers in Australia are very happy to simply import foreigners to fill various demands. We'll have to see how long this will all last though, I suppose.
It's mostly due to parents although the demands on them with today's expectations can be a problem for them too. Learning to read was no problem back in the day one of the reasons for which I think was they saw their parents reading , often bedtime stories to the children. But what example are parents giving their children today with their own mobile obsession?
When you have illiterate people having babies, you are going to have illiterate children. They can't help their children learn when they don't know the material themselves.
My niece is 5 and once my bro bought her an iPad she hasn't touched a book since and sees me reading to her as punishment. It's really comparison, which gives the higher dopamine?
I love reading and for some time it's been getting harder to focus because of stress mostly caused by school. Also the teachers try to get kids to read by saying " you should read Shakespeare and nonfiction " and that's pretty damn boring when showing me fantasy books was what made me spend the last 9 years reading regularly (since age 4)
1. It all starts at home. You need to be reading to your kids and it needs to be a reward not a chore. I am a single mother and used to go to the Salvos or thrift shop and get a handfull of kids books or if they had a sale at the book shops I would buy $20 worth of books. That way we always had many books on hand to read at bed time or just in general. 2. Teach your children the basics i.e. the alphabet and numbers by the time they get to prep. This way you are not relying on the school to do this for you. 3. Do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT buy technology for babies. A baby is any child under the age of 10. There is no need for it. Have a communal computer so that if assignments need to be done, you can have it out in the lounge room where you can see what is happening and very limited access to it. Little ones don't need to be touching technology just yet. 4. Spend quality time with your children. Take them to the park, talk to them, just enjoy the time you have with them. Even if you are in a shared care arrangement, just enjoy every second you have with them. Do some crafty things with them, messy things, fun things like making mud pies - kid stuff. 5. Get involved with the school, get to know their teachers, see them as often as you can to see how they are travelling. I was lucky enough to be able to volunteer at school for both my children and saw what a great job the teachers did with them. They had individual levels for their reading so they didn't have to wait for others or anything. Once a week they kids were all checked to see how they were travelling for their readers, I was testing their reading and they were mostly all travelling along nicely. My children were quite ahead with their reading, again, this is because of the efforts I made.
6:35 because all teenagers get is exams, assessments and teachers that don’t give a shit. most of us hate school, and that’s clearly not because we’re ‘just teens’. primary school is engaging, stimulating and more commonly, containing people that care about students development. furthermore, for the point about kids not reading books anymore, i would, but i’ve got no time because of the pressure of school!!
when she said reading skills become stagnant around secondary school(which is middle school and high school for us) its probably because thats when they become teens and seem to lose interest in reading. even before all this tech in the late 90s and early 2000s! it went from reading books being one of a kids favorite past times to the whole "reading is sooooo uncool and boring!!!" when comparing 4th grade to just 6th or 7th grade! seems tweens/teens lose their curiosity about stuff in general....
We do have the knowledge to enable children to become good readers and writers but we have a way to go to in making sure teachers get access to this in their training and schools are adequately resourced for those children that require more intensive, individualised support.
I love that one teachers passion for the english language, no doubt the children she teaches feel excited about learning and using new words in their writing!
Apple products in school= indoctrination+ lifetime brand loyalty! Because android and apple have completely different operating systems and once you get used to 1 you will stick to it (humans dont like change, for eg do you catch the same bus to work+home? Do you drive the same way to a set location? Do you order pizza from a specific brand?). So basically all apple has to do is get the kids to become familiar with their system, especially since people buy multiple devices like tablets and phones and computers etc, and given the life span of each device is terrible or short term; apple has essentially created long term consumers of their various products! Congratulations to the school for selling your kids future consumption of products to 1 brand...how about using both android and apple, especially android because its open source and has a huge market with multiple brands dedicated to its system which enlarges the employment pool or opportunities for their future. Imagine walking into an office and saying i cant use your stock standard computer with Microsoft and its affiliated programs because im used to apple, yet most workplaces have stock standard computers and few have apple. What a joke!
This is perfect, isn't it? The digital age is producing a generation of unskilled laborers, perfect for the new mindset of megacorporations like Amazon or other warehouse employment where pay is low and working conditions are poor and the rights of workers are non-existant. We are a generation of robots, glued and addicted to our screens, unable to tear ourselves away to even look away even while having coffee with a friend. It is so sad to see a gang of teens together at a restaurant not talking, not engaging and just staring at the phones beside their plates. So sad. We will become a fuedal society again. The haves will be literate; the have nots will be stupid, and therefore will becomes subjects of the megacorporations., poor and powerless.
I am confident that the teachers of today and those of tomorrow will learn from the things that do and don't work, they are teachers after all, its not the teachers themselves but the was the study is expected to be organized by government-approved regulations, so its the government and the education ministers in charge of teaching to ensure what is being taught and the way it being taught in the best interests of the students it impacts?
I suffered from ADHD as a child and upto grade 4-5 I could not read or spell. I had a disability teacher use phonics on me and by grade 6 I ended up having a reading and writing comprehension of a grade 8-9
It's a faux system designed for hardship of 2/3 of children and can be so stressful especially as they get older. Kids are conditioned to shun and be shunned if they do not fit in. Those that do not fit in are usually active need lots of play and are sensitive to too many strict rules which is what our schools now consist of. If your child has dyslexia, dysgraphia good luck! Because the system doesn't recognise it they blame the child bc they are all different and can't put them in a box. We are not teaching leaders of tomorrow we are teaching leaders for a slave system.
I was considered a high achiever in school and my parents were instructed to stop me reading at home as I was too far ahead of the rest of the class. This was in primary school. During year 7 they assessed me as too far ahead of the rest of the year and I was bumped up to year 9. There are in general little to no facilities for anyone functioning too far above or below the curve, we encourage people to be the best they can be but limit them when they succeed.
Dont like to much digi devices in school. It really does not help . The school my boy will be going to will have minimal device use and that's so good. We dont have a TV at home and my boy does not us mutch computer . He plays lots of learning games and he is in a in home child care and there are only 4 kids in the home . He is doing a lot better then what he was doing in the larger daycare that he went to when he first started.iam so happy with in home child care
I think it has more to do with lack of funding for literature, particularly children's literature. These days most children's books are adaptations of movies and TV shows, not original work.
I feel that you lose your child by the second year of school. As a parent who raised my child on books, so that when she started school she was a confident reader. Unfortunately, it was at the beginning of the nineties when they first bought in the whole language system. For my child this meant that being an independent reader was not encouraged in the classroom. The buddy system meant that for my child, she had to wait until someone could read at her level. It just irritated me. I could see that within a very short period of time she was losing interest in learning. Reading in particular became boring which I could understand from her perspective. Having to relearn basic reading or having to wait for others to catch up so that she could feel a part of her class was both sad & annoying for me as a parent. More sad for my child. Phonetics has always been the best way to learn to read & write. I don't know why they always have to change something that works well. Now look at the statistics. We have almost two generations that are practically illiterate. Males faring the worst from whole language learning. Damn the authoritarians, just because most of their kids could or did go to private schools, or Kip McGrath was an easy alternative for them. Perhaps if both teachers & parents had been given more time to understand & learn how to implement it into our children's cognitive development then maybe whole language learning may have been beneficial in my children's education. This didn't happen did it? I do believe that this is where the education system failed our kids & lost my confidence in state education. It's a bit of a worry for all the kids still in that system including my grandchildren. Yikes!
@@aimee-hyjI'm guessing OP had subtitles on, which I find often get words wrong. Even the best enunciators among us get mis-transcribed by whatever is used for subtitles.
You know, you can change the settings. Mine's set for Australian. And incorrect is subjective. Americans think British is incorrect. Was even more choices back in the day in one country.
The school was modelled after the factory and we're still treating children like machines designed for nothing but the output of high scores in standardised tests.
I’m just going to say this, KIDS REALIZE AROUND YEAR 5 TO YEAR 7 THAT THEY DON’T NEED TO TRY IN NATPLAN. KIDS REALIZE THEY DON’T NEED TO TRY BECAUSE IT DOESN’T EFFECT THEM.
Shouldn't that boost the reading rate? Learning other languages, particularly Spanish, German, French or Italian, will boost the vocabularies of the learner because they are related to English in one way or another.
I'm so old I was taught grammar in Primary School, but was my French teacher in secondary school that made those grammar lessons stick. Learning a second language INCREASES your writing skills in your first language.
Dan thanks for whatever ,you. CAn do for these children,more than writing, Teaching, them about , the evils of drugs,, the children born today , could easily be, the inhabitants of the public places tomorrow, parks ,streets, parking lots , and so on, no one , is doing, anything , about ,this terrible experience, THINK, 30 % of Aussie’s are involved on drugs, either one or the other. I feel extremely sorry about it, ain’t Aussie , but I love this beautiful land PLEASE LEST CARE MORE ABOUT OUR NEW GUYS,,
Reading and writing is less important these days. Our productivity per person is far higher than Japan, and a bit higher than the "amazing" Singapore. Rebellious disruption creates modern economies.
You lost that battle a long time ago, just like the word 'terrific' changing from a synonym of horrific, to now being the opposite of it's original meaning.
The problem is not due to a lack of good teachers. Sure we can improve our ways in which we share reading and writing skills, but this nether is the problem. The problem is so big, that it should be quite obvious. But sometimes a quite gigantic issue is hard to notice just because it is surrounding us. And that is the situation... we have to remove all negative and not natural sources that are creating havoc within the water. That is the large percentage of water that an individual human consists of is being distributed to the degree that learning has become difficult across the board.
Some kids are thriving and they're drinking the same water as their peers at school. I just can't understand the logic behind your comment. No government in their right mind would consciously allow the cognitive stunting of their upcoming population. A lot of work is done to ensure the water is safe for human consumption. And if you're someone that doesn't like fluoride in their water, you have the freedom to drink bottled water.
@@alphabet_soup123 yeah ok ABC person! What appears to be thriving is merely conforming the dues are paid most times later. What an ignorant sod with yr comment if you don't like fluoride drink bottled water look up bottled water and go back under ya rock
Fix the English spelling system. Currently it can barely be described as a system. English is a global language with one of the most inconsistent spelling systems of any language. Inconsistent English spelling costs the world on the order of 100 billion wasted hours a year. Children today need to have excellent skills in a broader range of media than in previous ages when literacy was simply English words on paper. Today people need literacy in other areas like video, images, programming and natural languages among other pursuits. Archaic spelling is also a barrier to entry and prevents millions of children and non native speakers from contributing at their potential in the English speaking world. Some people may be very clever but simply don't have a mind for memorizing the inconsistent details in English spelling.
There is a place, the opposite of here (very similar spelling, as is the related question where). Their is a possession or something else to do with "they" or "them", similar to other English words that change a Y to an I when we add on other letters eg: fly changes to flies and flier).
A child can pass through the first three years of school without coming into contact with a teacher actually trained as an early childhood educator. Someone who knows how to teach literacy and numeracy. Most teachers train to teach in the upper grades. When they are assigned a grade in the K/1/2 range, they often think that these kids just play, no real learning happens here. You can see where I’m going with this.....
Phonics is not suitable for all children. Some children are better visual learners and are only confused by having to sound out words. How do you sound out ocean, rough, cough, bough etc? These 'experts' need to read Britain's 1975 Royal Commission, The Bullock Report, on the teaching of literacy through out The UK. Its closing chapter stated that every method works and every method fails. Kids can learn despite the method. The secret ingredient is the enthusiasm of the teacher and the relationship they have with the children. BTW which phonics method do these experts propose to use? THRASS, a popular explicit phonics approach, for example is totally at odds with more traditional approaches like Jolly Phonics, Spalding, LEM Phonics etc. Just remember that these programs are owned by businesses who peddle their wares like any other business. There's a whole lot of skullduggery going on with some of these programs, using fear to scare teachers and parents into embracing their cure all brand of phonics. At the end of the day, they are successful and unsuccessful.
There is actually a very small percentage of words that cannot be sounded out. While you mention irregularities, it gets down to an understanding the construction of the English language.
I recently deleted TH-cam from the device my 6yo uses. The content kids view is absolute rubbish. Objects being melted in microwaves. People recording themselves playing computer games. Kids opening packaged toys. It must be the worst period in children's programming since the screen was invented. Will try the ABC Me app but he finds those shows boring, as I would have at his age. I liked Astroboy and Starblazers, kids shows are too afraid to challenge these days, lest we give the little cherubs PTSD.
Maybe the fact that Australian teachers are by far the greediest in the world, commanding the most outrageous salaries has something to do with the lack of funding for research into better syllabi and curriculum.
This is an Australian news segment. In Australian schools, hats are compulsory for at least some of the year, particularly when it is recess/lunchtime and kids are going outdoors. We have the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, and the more UV damage we can prevent, the better.
And if you're referring to the scene with the three boys wearing caps, those kids are part of a school that is ultimately trying to help them stay in the educational system and keep them out of a life on welfare or away from a life in jail. Sometimes kids at these schools come from families where parents can't afford, or refuse to pay for uniforms. You tend to find these types of kids engage better with the system when they are granted some freedom/some sense of independance. Most other schools in Australia have uniform policies. Not like the US.
@@alphabet_soup123 There is a big difference between wearing a hat outdoors versus indoors. Please keep in mind that I am a child of 911 who lived less than 50 miles of WTC!, NYC USA!! The first airplane to hit WTC flew over my county.
@@alphabet_soup123 Please read my reply to Alpha/Beta!!! Further more "WE LIVE IN A GLOBAL ECO-SYSTEM" and I will comment on international videos as I see fit!!!
@@alphabet_soup123 You missed the whole point of my comment, if everyone takes their hat off (Boys and Girls) than they will get an equal and correct education!!!!!
When I was young, we were taught that to improve your writing, you needed to be reading books. And to improve your spelling, you needed to be writing. Many students these days are typing homework/assignments rather than handwriting them. Computers have spell checkers - so kids aren't pushed to stop and think about their spelling, they have no need to memorise spelling because the computer can correct it for them. Distributed cognition means their brain isn't required to perform sophisticated tasks as kids of the past used to. When I read older literature, such as that from Edwardian or Victorian times, I'm impressed by the quality of the writing, the variety of vocabulary. Today, even news organisations have sacked subeditors and kids are exposed to articles littered with spelling mistakes. Standards have been declining for generations, and I hope we can halt this. But when a kid has a choice between reading a book or using social media to interact with their peers, sadly, most kids are going to choose social media... or even video games.
None of the Edwardians did their own laundry
@alphabet soup, your grammar is shit.
@@jaydentownsend5402 Was about to say that myself. Besides, Victorian writing is peppered with words like Negro and some of it is pure colonialism.
@@Oridux what is wrong with the word Negro?
Spell check is good up to a point. When I rite a letter it does not pick that up. I went to the end of the street and turned rite is fine with spell check. I do not know whether the weather will be hot today. Which witch is which.
I wouldn't hold my breath on this problem getting fixed anytime soon. There's currently not much incentive to raise people to be smart, critical thinkers (for which literacy is the key). Right now it's, in fact, the opposite where governments, banks, and media prefer if you can't properly scrutinize what they get up to.
The current 'factory-floor' style education system was created because those in power saw it as a way to secure even more power back when Western nations were industrializing. They needed workers with basic arithmetic, basic language (grammar, logic, and maybe rhetoric) in order to accomplish the tasks required by an early industrial economy.
In other words, things only change when power demands it to change and right now there isn't any real demand for improved literacy. As evidenced by this very video, for example, the powers in Australia are very happy to simply import foreigners to fill various demands. We'll have to see how long this will all last though, I suppose.
It's mostly due to parents although the demands on them with today's expectations can be a problem for them too. Learning to read was no problem back in the day one of the reasons for which I think was they saw their parents reading , often bedtime stories to the children. But what example are parents giving their children today with their own mobile obsession?
When you have illiterate people having babies, you are going to have illiterate children. They can't help their children learn when they don't know the material themselves.
My niece is 5 and once my bro bought her an iPad she hasn't touched a book since and sees me reading to her as punishment. It's really comparison, which gives the higher dopamine?
I love reading and for some time it's been getting harder to focus because of stress mostly caused by school. Also the teachers try to get kids to read by saying " you should read Shakespeare and nonfiction " and that's pretty damn boring when showing me fantasy books was what made me spend the last 9 years reading regularly (since age 4)
1. It all starts at home. You need to be reading to your kids and it needs to be a reward not a chore. I am a single mother and used to go to the Salvos or thrift shop and get a handfull of kids books or if they had a sale at the book shops I would buy $20 worth of books. That way we always had many books on hand to read at bed time or just in general.
2. Teach your children the basics i.e. the alphabet and numbers by the time they get to prep. This way you are not relying on the school to do this for you.
3. Do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT buy technology for babies. A baby is any child under the age of 10. There is no need for it. Have a communal computer so that if assignments need to be done, you can have it out in the lounge room where you can see what is happening and very limited access to it. Little ones don't need to be touching technology just yet.
4. Spend quality time with your children. Take them to the park, talk to them, just enjoy the time you have with them. Even if you are in a shared care arrangement, just enjoy every second you have with them. Do some crafty things with them, messy things, fun things like making mud pies - kid stuff.
5. Get involved with the school, get to know their teachers, see them as often as you can to see how they are travelling. I was lucky enough to be able to volunteer at school for both my children and saw what a great job the teachers did with them. They had individual levels for their reading so they didn't have to wait for others or anything. Once a week they kids were all checked to see how they were travelling for their readers, I was testing their reading and they were mostly all travelling along nicely. My children were quite ahead with their reading, again, this is because of the efforts I made.
A baby up to 10? That's like saying a foetus is up to age 3. 😁
6:35 because all teenagers get is exams, assessments and teachers that don’t give a shit. most of us hate school, and that’s clearly not because we’re ‘just teens’. primary school is engaging, stimulating and more commonly, containing people that care about students development. furthermore, for the point about kids not reading books anymore, i would, but i’ve got no time because of the pressure of school!!
Because of uselesss drug addict teenage like u the west needs immigration
@@aalhadbapat3489 Where you from?
when she said reading skills become stagnant around secondary school(which is middle school and high school for us) its probably because thats when they become teens and seem to lose interest in reading. even before all this tech in the late 90s and early 2000s! it went from reading books being one of a kids favorite past times to the whole "reading is sooooo uncool and boring!!!" when comparing 4th grade to just 6th or 7th grade! seems tweens/teens lose their curiosity about stuff in general....
We do have the knowledge to enable children to become good readers and writers but we have a way to go to in making sure teachers get access to this in their training and schools are adequately resourced for those children that require more intensive, individualised support.
You're doing important work; don't ever stop.
I love that one teachers passion for the english language, no doubt the children she teaches feel excited about learning and using new words in their writing!
Apple products in school= indoctrination+ lifetime brand loyalty! Because android and apple have completely different operating systems and once you get used to 1 you will stick to it (humans dont like change, for eg do you catch the same bus to work+home? Do you drive the same way to a set location? Do you order pizza from a specific brand?). So basically all apple has to do is get the kids to become familiar with their system, especially since people buy multiple devices like tablets and phones and computers etc, and given the life span of each device is terrible or short term; apple has essentially created long term consumers of their various products! Congratulations to the school for selling your kids future consumption of products to 1 brand...how about using both android and apple, especially android because its open source and has a huge market with multiple brands dedicated to its system which enlarges the employment pool or opportunities for their future. Imagine walking into an office and saying i cant use your stock standard computer with Microsoft and its affiliated programs because im used to apple, yet most workplaces have stock standard computers and few have apple. What a joke!
This is perfect, isn't it? The digital age is producing a generation of unskilled laborers, perfect for the new mindset of megacorporations like Amazon or other warehouse employment where pay is low and working conditions are poor and the rights of workers are non-existant. We are a generation of robots, glued and addicted to our screens, unable to tear ourselves away to even look away even while having coffee with a friend. It is so sad to see a gang of teens together at a restaurant not talking, not engaging and just staring at the phones beside their plates. So sad. We will become a fuedal society again. The haves will be literate; the have nots will be stupid, and therefore will becomes subjects of the megacorporations., poor and powerless.
I am confident that the teachers of today and those of tomorrow will learn from the things that do and don't work, they are teachers after all, its not the teachers themselves but the was the study is expected to be organized by government-approved regulations, so its the government and the education ministers in charge of teaching to ensure what is being taught and the way it being taught in the best interests of the students it impacts?
I suffered from ADHD as a child and upto grade 4-5 I could not read or spell. I had a disability teacher use phonics on me and by grade 6 I ended up having a reading and writing comprehension of a grade 8-9
9:12 "Prof." has an American English period, whereas all preceding abbreviated titles have used the British/Australian non-period style.
It's a faux system designed for hardship of 2/3 of children and can be so stressful especially as they get older. Kids are conditioned to shun and be shunned if they do not fit in. Those that do not fit in are usually active need lots of play and are sensitive to too many strict rules which is what our schools now consist of. If your child has dyslexia, dysgraphia good luck! Because the system doesn't recognise it they blame the child bc they are all different and can't put them in a box. We are not teaching leaders of tomorrow we are teaching leaders for a slave system.
I was considered a high achiever in school and my parents were instructed to stop me reading at home as I was too far ahead of the rest of the class. This was in primary school. During year 7 they assessed me as too far ahead of the rest of the year and I was bumped up to year 9.
There are in general little to no facilities for anyone functioning too far above or below the curve, we encourage people to be the best they can be but limit them when they succeed.
Where are the punctuation marks?/??
@@ericfb100 Same place yr heads at! Nice forward slash b/t question marks. Check yrself!
My school has always stopped us from using our phone. We can’t use them from 8.15 to the end of school.
Dont like to much digi devices in school. It really does not help . The school my boy will be going to will have minimal device use and that's so good. We dont have a TV at home and my boy does not us mutch computer . He plays lots of learning games and he is in a in home child care and there are only 4 kids in the home . He is doing a lot better then what he was doing in the larger daycare that he went to when he first started.iam so happy with in home child care
Ironically, that was hard to read
many teachers don't have a base to work with... starts in the home, parents.
I think it has more to do with lack of funding for literature, particularly children's literature. These days most children's books are adaptations of movies and TV shows, not original work.
Why does it matter so much that a student makes up their own words? Every word is made up.
5:01 Why don't the sentences describing the adverbs start with a capital letter?
I feel that you lose your child by the second year of school. As a parent who raised my child on books, so that when she started school she was a confident reader. Unfortunately, it was at the beginning of the nineties when they first bought in the whole language system. For my child this meant that being an independent reader was not encouraged in the classroom. The buddy system meant that for my child, she had to wait until someone could read at her level. It just irritated me. I could see that within a very short period of time she was losing interest in learning. Reading in particular became boring which I could understand from her perspective. Having to relearn basic reading or having to wait for others to catch up so that she could feel a part of her class was both sad & annoying for me as a parent. More sad for my child. Phonetics has always been the best way to learn to read & write. I don't know why they always have to change something that works well. Now look at the statistics. We have almost two generations that are practically illiterate. Males faring the worst from whole language learning. Damn the authoritarians, just because most of their kids could or did go to private schools, or Kip McGrath was an easy alternative for them. Perhaps if both teachers & parents had been given more time to understand & learn how to implement it into our children's cognitive development then maybe whole language learning may have been beneficial in my children's education. This didn't happen did it? I do believe that this is where the education system failed our kids & lost my confidence in state education. It's a bit of a worry for all the kids still in that system including my grandchildren. Yikes!
3:00 "We should be doing 'bedder' " 3:05 "We 'wanna' see Australia at the top of the literacy table" - Good luck!
he said ‘better’ and ‘want to’, people can have an accent. chill out.
@@aimee-hyjI'm guessing OP had subtitles on, which I find often get words wrong. Even the best enunciators among us get mis-transcribed by whatever is used for subtitles.
I believe LANTITE is a failure as well. Good on you Simon.
Yes. Far too many are adopting the incorrect American spelling because of the predictive text on electronic decices.
Disgusting.
Daniel Bunton lol “predictive text on electronic decices.” Case in point.
@@Shmyrk the language is English.
@Der Gorghast zeds*
@Der Gorghast no
You know, you can change the settings. Mine's set for Australian. And incorrect is subjective. Americans think British is incorrect. Was even more choices back in the day in one country.
When phonics was discussed, they should have shown us THRASS at work in schools, used by students with diverse abilities.
The school was modelled after the factory and we're still treating children like machines designed for nothing but the output of high scores in standardised tests.
Facts
I’m just going to say this, KIDS REALIZE AROUND YEAR 5 TO YEAR 7 THAT THEY DON’T NEED TO TRY IN NATPLAN. KIDS REALIZE THEY DON’T NEED TO TRY BECAUSE IT DOESN’T EFFECT THEM.
Australian has also had an influx of Second Language Learners.
Shouldn't that boost the reading rate? Learning other languages, particularly Spanish, German, French or Italian, will boost the vocabularies of the learner because they are related to English in one way or another.
Eventually, yes, but it takes 5-7 years to develop second language literacy skills.
... the influx of immigrants Australia has seen isn’t coming from Europeans who speak Germanic languages.
I'm so old I was taught grammar in Primary School, but was my French teacher in secondary school that made those grammar lessons stick. Learning a second language INCREASES your writing skills in your first language.
Technology is everywhere. We must not try to discard it because that's objectively not going to work!
Sort of ironic that the producers can't spell 'programme'!
Can be either way in Australia Its not wrong. even in Britain they use both.
@@tubester4567 I always thought programme was the noun and (to) program was the verb.
Sort of ironic that you don't know there's a difference between British Standard English, American Standard English and Australian Standard English.
@@리주민 No... it's a difference between versions of English.
@@shammydammy2610 your use of the word, standard, implies a standards authority for which ther is none, for English
Dan thanks for whatever ,you. CAn do for these children,more than writing,
Teaching, them about , the evils of drugs,, the children born today , could easily be, the inhabitants of the public places tomorrow, parks ,streets, parking lots , and so on, no one , is doing, anything , about ,this terrible experience,
THINK, 30 % of Aussie’s are involved on drugs, either one or the other.
I feel extremely sorry about it, ain’t Aussie , but I love this beautiful land
PLEASE LEST CARE MORE ABOUT OUR NEW GUYS,,
4:35 Why are the first letters of the words capitalised in the signs?
'Capitalised'
Edutechment is that really the most relevant comment you gained from this video
@@aimee-hyj Maybe the reason young Australians are struggling with literacy is because of their teacher's lackluster literary skills.
Edutechment they’re just signs dude, chill out because there are far bigger issues to worry about than that.
Reading and writing is less important these days. Our productivity per person is far higher than Japan, and a bit higher than the "amazing" Singapore. Rebellious disruption creates modern economies.
How does that make reading and writing less important?
Perplexing how this fantastic programme about literacy still refers to children as baby goats.
You lost that battle a long time ago, just like the word 'terrific' changing from a synonym of horrific, to now being the opposite of it's original meaning.
hi the progression of language???
age education is the problem saying all people are equal
The problem is not due to a lack of good teachers. Sure we can improve our ways in which we share reading and writing skills, but this nether is the problem. The problem is so big, that it should be quite obvious. But sometimes a quite gigantic issue is hard to notice just because it is surrounding us. And that is the situation... we have to remove all negative and not natural sources that are creating havoc within the water. That is the large percentage of water that an individual human consists of is being distributed to the degree that learning has become difficult across the board.
Some kids are thriving and they're drinking the same water as their peers at school. I just can't understand the logic behind your comment. No government in their right mind would consciously allow the cognitive stunting of their upcoming population. A lot of work is done to ensure the water is safe for human consumption. And if you're someone that doesn't like fluoride in their water, you have the freedom to drink bottled water.
@@alphabet_soup123 yeah ok ABC person! What appears to be thriving is merely conforming the dues are paid most times later. What an ignorant sod with yr comment if you don't like fluoride drink bottled water look up bottled water and go back under ya rock
Fix the English spelling system. Currently it can barely be described as a system. English is a global language with one of the most inconsistent spelling systems of any language. Inconsistent English spelling costs the world on the order of 100 billion wasted hours a year. Children today need to have excellent skills in a broader range of media than in previous ages when literacy was simply English words on paper. Today people need literacy in other areas like video, images, programming and natural languages among other pursuits. Archaic spelling is also a barrier to entry and prevents millions of children and non native speakers from contributing at their potential in the English speaking world. Some people may be very clever but simply don't have a mind for memorizing the inconsistent details in English spelling.
actually it's not a system at all. a system would have an authority to control it. there is no authority that controls English.
Money opens up the world.
Interesting
Steve jobs and the government are the ones to blame👌🏻
yes because Steve Jobs made you buy the device for the children.
*buy
@@amberd7439 thanks I did the edit and fixed it.
And Mr Samsung 😁
The education system broke down started too cut paste into text books that were intended to be written in ,around 2012 from memory for my children .
5:28 I still don't know the difference between there and their (I have dyslexia) but at least I can pronouce the letter h, just saying 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
There is a place, the opposite of here (very similar spelling, as is the related question where). Their is a possession or something else to do with "they" or "them", similar to other English words that change a Y to an I when we add on other letters eg: fly changes to flies and flier).
A child can pass through the first three years of school without coming into contact with a teacher actually trained as an early childhood educator. Someone who knows how to teach literacy and numeracy. Most teachers train to teach in the upper grades. When they are assigned a grade in the K/1/2 range, they often think that these kids just play, no real learning happens here. You can see where I’m going with this.....
When was the last time you spelled a word when talking to some one?
Pretty much everyday...
😂😂😂
Yesterday.
Maybe it's because of all the soy and chemicals that's put in the foods.....
Phonics is not suitable for all children. Some children are better visual learners and are only confused by having to sound out words. How do you sound out ocean, rough, cough, bough etc? These 'experts' need to read Britain's 1975 Royal Commission, The Bullock Report, on the teaching of literacy through out The UK. Its closing chapter stated that every method works and every method fails. Kids can learn despite the method. The secret ingredient is the enthusiasm of the teacher and the relationship they have with the children. BTW which phonics method do these experts propose to use? THRASS, a popular explicit phonics approach, for example is totally at odds with more traditional approaches like Jolly Phonics, Spalding, LEM Phonics etc. Just remember that these programs are owned by businesses who peddle their wares like any other business. There's a whole lot of skullduggery going on with some of these programs, using fear to scare teachers and parents into embracing their cure all brand of phonics. At the end of the day, they are successful and unsuccessful.
Should read' 'programme'.
There is actually a very small percentage of words that cannot be sounded out. While you mention irregularities, it gets down to an understanding the construction of the English language.
Maybe it's the flouridated water!
*Fluoridated.
Ok Boomers
No worries dummy.
Good low IQ reply. Well thought out.
@@ausbare140 lol ok :pepejig:
🤓✍🏼😲🤪😂😂😂😂
ok boomer
Good low IQ reply. Well thought out.
what do you mean by that? did you just think you needed to say something?
Did you watch the show not very many boomers
Because nobody uses books or libraries just short textsing no spelling no reading to do assignments no brain work shame
I recently deleted TH-cam from the device my 6yo uses. The content kids view is absolute rubbish. Objects being melted in microwaves. People recording themselves playing computer games. Kids opening packaged toys. It must be the worst period in children's programming since the screen was invented. Will try the ABC Me app but he finds those shows boring, as I would have at his age. I liked Astroboy and Starblazers, kids shows are too afraid to challenge these days, lest we give the little cherubs PTSD.
i’m sure there’s heaps of shows online you can find that fit your tastes. you’re not trying very hard
Yet here you are.
Maybe the fact that Australian teachers are by far the greediest in the world, commanding the most outrageous salaries has something to do with the lack of funding for research into better syllabi and curriculum.
Damn primary school teachers always driving around in their Ferraris, sipping their Champaign..
Rubbish.
Provide proof
Adam Toepfer lol what teachers are you looking at?? i can’t think of a single one with an ‘outrageous salary’
???? I grew up old-school USA, NO hats for boys and girls! take the haji off and you all good!!!! BTW, I am French Canadian!!
This is an Australian news segment. In Australian schools, hats are compulsory for at least some of the year, particularly when it is recess/lunchtime and kids are going outdoors. We have the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, and the more UV damage we can prevent, the better.
And if you're referring to the scene with the three boys wearing caps, those kids are part of a school that is ultimately trying to help them stay in the educational system and keep them out of a life on welfare or away from a life in jail. Sometimes kids at these schools come from families where parents can't afford, or refuse to pay for uniforms. You tend to find these types of kids engage better with the system when they are granted some freedom/some sense of independance. Most other schools in Australia have uniform policies. Not like the US.
@@alphabet_soup123 There is a big difference between wearing a hat outdoors versus indoors. Please keep in mind that I am a child of 911 who lived less than 50 miles of WTC!, NYC USA!! The first airplane to hit WTC flew over my county.
@@alphabet_soup123 Please read my reply to Alpha/Beta!!! Further more "WE LIVE IN A GLOBAL ECO-SYSTEM" and I will comment on international videos as I see fit!!!
@@alphabet_soup123 You missed the whole point of my comment, if everyone takes their hat off (Boys and Girls) than they will get an equal and correct education!!!!!
Ok Boomer :3