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Foundational literacy and numeracy: formative first, tools second
If a child cannot read with understanding or hold basic number, every later competency is theatre. EdTech is useful when it helps a teacher see that floor early and change the group. It is not useful as a catalogue of games, VR and apps.
Essay first published 26 May 2023. The discussion connects classroom assessment with the teaching decisions that follow a learner’s attempt.
The essay discusses learning poverty using sources cited in 2023. Its practical focus is the classroom routine: observe the learner’s attempt, offer feedback and prepare another opportunity to practise.
The floor
Foundational literacy and numeracy are not a phase you skip because CBC has projects. They are the condition for the projects. Rote drill without understanding was the method many of us inherited. It does not hold.
Formative, not a gadget list
Identify who is struggling. Track whether the reteach landed. Tell the learner what to practise. That loop can live on paper. On Kurasa it lives as formative evidence against indicators, in time for Monday. M-learning matters where there is no lab. A gadget list — VR, generic game-based learning, a named overseas academy — is not this product’s proof.
Ledgers
World Bank learning-poverty numbers move as datasets are updated. Quote them with a year, or do not quote them. 60 Decibels academics and participation figures are teacher-reported, Kenya, March 2024, on their own posts. Do not flatten Africa into one gap and one app.
Topics Teacher resources
Tags CBC Kenya · Formative assessment · Foundational literacy
The floor
See it while you can still teach it.
Formative assessment is the product. The CBC guide is the week. The 60dB academics post is the study.
