November 25, 2016
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Comments Off on Reflection (Online Unit Two)
Within this post I will be describing reflection. Reflection is the act of looking over a past experience and then thinking about what you can learn for it. An example of when I recently used reflection was when looking back at the agency visit we completed, regarding the working together module, and considering what I […] Continue reading
November 23, 2016
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Comments Off on Bookies or Bust
One area the particularly interested me throughout my development within the module was the importance of math’s within gambling, something I myself occasionally partake in and something many of my friends do. Gambling consists of many forms including betting shops, casinos, and racing but for this I will focus on casinos in particular. A study by the […] Continue reading
November 22, 2016
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Comments Off on Can animals count?
Society has shown an interest in animals and their ability to count and understand numbers for centuries. However, clear documentation of this only emerges around the early 1900’s. The curiosity began with well-known stallion ‘Clever Hans’, this information is encapsulated form Alex Bellos’s ‘Alex’s adventures in numberland’. Hans’s owner ‘Wilhelm van Osten’, who was a […] Continue reading
November 16, 2016
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Comments Off on Managing and Engaging With My Learning
For this blog post it is based on my Online Units where I will identify and reflect on factors which will help me manage my learning. Reflection/Recognition […] Continue reading
November 12, 2016
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Comments Off on Myths of Mathematics
Using tools is cheating Fingers are there to help us! We have 10 fingers and a base system of 10. There must be some type of connection? Still to this day, I use my fingers to keep track of which number I am on. As a dancer and choreographer, I am constantly counting to 8. […] Continue reading
November 5, 2016
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Comments Off on Gardening in Tayport and relevant school science
I have been living in Scotland for four and a half years and before moving here I did quite a bit of gardening. When I lived in Newcastle I had a nice vegetable plot and even kept chickens but since moving north haven’t had the same space and the growing season is a little shorter. […]
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November 4, 2016
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Comments Off on Reflection- Online unit 2
Reflection can mean many things and can be used in a variety of different ways. Today I will be discussing the types of reflection I will be using during my academic study and professional practice. First of all, I’d like to clear something up… ..simply describing the situation/event IS NOT REFLECTION. Reflection involves looking at an […] Continue reading
November 2, 2016
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Comments Off on The Sound of Maths
Our most recent workshop with Anna was all about music. Music is a subject which I did not really enjoy in school but I would love in my free time. I have a burning passion for musical theatre and the art of performance is something that I love. The picture above shows me playing Velma […] Continue reading
November 2, 2016
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Comments Off on Take a Wonder into the Woods
As the old favourite goes – if you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise. After missing my placement lifestyle of being so relaxed and enjoying nature, that and after reading ‘Nearby Nature: A Buffer of Life Stress Among Rural Children’ (Wells and Evans, 2003) – I decided to drag …
October 31, 2016
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Comments Off on Maths in Art
Throughout the Discovering Mathematics module we have learned that there is a lot more to maths than just timetables and textbooks, maths is all around us! It’s in space, nature and even in art. Who would’ve thought? In our recent lecture about maths in art all I could think was wow, in a subject once […] Continue reading
October 28, 2016
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Comments Off on The Only One Who Wins at the Bookies is the Bookmaker
Our most recent workshop was about probability and chance. This is most definitely something which we see every single day and affects people in both positive and negative ways. So, what is probability? Probability is defined as “the study of chance” in one of our key texts: “Alex’s adventure in Numberland.” Gambling is strongly connected […] Continue reading
October 27, 2016
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Comments Off on Identifying my Skills and Abilities- Online unit 1
After completing Activity 1 and 2 I feel I have a better understanding of my strengths and the areas I need to work on. The completed activities can be found in my Personal audit and transferable skills page located along the top of the blog. The discussion task ‘What would you say are the most important skills/attributes/qualities […] Continue reading
October 26, 2016
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Comments Off on My second attempt of the OLA and NOMA assessments.
Today, I attempted both online assessments for the second time. My results were as follows: Literacy – 83% and Maths 81%. I improved 3% in literacy and achieved the same score in maths. I was really happy with this, however I believe that I could have achieved a higher score in both tests. This was […] Continue reading
October 21, 2016
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Comments Off on All is not well …
Perhaps I am in the midst of a mid life crisis but I cant help but feel that lately I have found myself questioning what it is that I am doing ! Firstly, if you are a follower of my … Continue reading → Continue reading
October 19, 2016
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Comments Off on Non-Fiction Writing Ideas
Today’s lecture was our second so far about non-fiction texts and delivering lessons around them in the classroom. After going through the different types of non-fiction texts we will be teaching about we were all given a book and asked to create our own lesson from this. The group I was working with was given […] Continue reading
October 18, 2016
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Comments Off on Edushare blogging and conformity
A bit of a ‘stooshie’ kicked off on Twitter a week or so back, and I wasn’t sure about blogging on this topic. After some contemplation, given the fact that transparency is something I value and all this is in the public domain, I’ve decided to publish this post. Also I invite, indeed welcome, comment […]
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October 17, 2016
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Comments Off on Chat Racism, Chat Sexism
In May of this year, a young African-American videogame streamer was subject to a barrage of racist abuse in the chat stream that runs alongside the video footage of his game. He was competing in a videogame festival in the USA, playing Hearthstone, an electronic card game for two opposing players. He made it all […] Continue reading
October 10, 2016
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Comments Off on Why Choose Maths?
When we were given the opportunity to pick our elective for MA2 I can easily say it was a tough decision for me. Throughout my time at high school I never really excelled in one particular subject, I feel as though this was mainly due to a general lack of enthusiasm, people are always saying […] Continue reading
October 6, 2016
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Comments Off on Twitter for teacher CPD and STEM teaching in primary
As a teacher educator I’m really interested in the potential of social media for CPD. The way colleagues and students have engaged with this especially this year has been amazing. Recently I have been reading a PhD thesis on this very topic by Tim Jefferis. I was made aware of Tim’s work through my own […]
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October 6, 2016
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Comments Off on Appreciate and Evaluate a Dance Piece or Show (Dance 3H)
Tchaikovsky’s story of The Nutcracker was the dance piece that I decided to evaluate as it is one that I personally enjoy.However, it would be very difficult to evaluate the whole performance, so the excerpt which I have chosen is from 8:28 to 23:22. My Evaluation Choreography Staging Lighting Sound Costume Continue reading
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