I’d guess one of the biggest changes in my lifetime is the increasing amount and complexity of infrastructure.
Everything we depend in turn depends on many other things and connection, and so on, leaving us even more powerless or ignorant.
When I was young the journey of milk from farm to jug was fairly simple: farm, local dairy, milk van to doorstep. The cream floated on the top. I think of this as a metaphor for almost everything.
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A Swansea University study has revealed how as little as an hour a week of outdoor learning has tremendous benefits for children and also boosts teachers' job satisfaction.
the pupils felt a sense of freedom when outside the restricting walls of the classroom. They felt more able to express themselves, and enjoyed being able to move about more too.
Toast #blogvember 23
I’ve eaten a fair bit of toast in my life. Until I was 21 and stopped eating meat I think I had toast and bacon for breakfast most days. After that I moved on to toast and marmalade, preferably Frank Cooper’s oxford.
My tooth has got a little less sweet and in the last 10 years I’ve moved on to muesli and yoghurt most mornings. I still like toast. At school the pupils can get toast at morning break time and I usually grab a slice. I often have some with peanut butter when I get home from work. Weekend mornings I’ll have toast and egg or french toast from breakfast.
Until I had a cholesterol test I had a strong preference for butter, now I seem habituated to margarine.
I like a few other things toasted too, scones for one.
Thinking of toast I remembered a lyric, ‘a little piece of toast’ which lead to a song from when I was 20 Streetband – Toast
On the way I found another toast song I heard last year Koffee – Toast
Toast, tasty and inspirational.
I have just noticed that you can slide down the micro.blog reply to reread what you are replying to in iOS. I now feel my copy reply close, reread, reopen paste technique is suboptimal.
Sport – #blogvember 22 I was hoping that some inspiration would strike for today’s challenge. No such luck.
Unrequited #blogvember 21
Blog posts are like love it is a mystery to me which ones will be requited.
#blogvember 20 – fight – One of the nicest fights I’ve been in was GIF FIGHT!! a small irregular jpg challenge posted to be turned into gifs that started about 2013.
#blogvember 19 – Love
At the theatre tonight to watch the Richard Alston company dance. Turns out the music to one piece, some Monteverdi madrigals, were a revelation. I would. Ever describe myself as a music lover but this…
Loch Oss not the Ben
On Sunday’s walk I stopped now and again to record some audio.
The usual walkmap
#blogvember 18 Game
I have problems with games, especially the computer kind. I’ve never really played any. I messed about with some sort of space invaders game on my first Mac, a Performa 475, but got bored. I played Myst for about 20 minutes because it was free with the Mac. I had more fun trying to ResEdit it to poke through its HyperCard roots than I ever did playing.
My problem comes from my work as a primary teacher. I’ve dipped my classes toes into making games with Scratch, used a Minecraft alternative, Minetest and various other games.
My difficulty is that I don’t really know enough about games. In Minecraft or minetest I wander around clumsily, in encouraging my class to improve their games I don’t know what a good game looks like. I am not going to invest the time in learning to play so I need to try and find ways to encourage the class from the sidelines. I also need to give up a fair bit of control of the learning and see if pupil leaders emerge.
We have just organised licences for Minecraft Education Edition. I hope to be able to leverage the enthusiasm for playing the game and the curricular resources without having to improve my own skills.