Rebecca's Learning Adventure

  Welcome back to Rebecca’s Learning Adventure! This week there was a lot of discussion of Science education, and how it has been transformed, and how it needs to be continuously improved.       Science is often looked at in such a light of simply knowing the theories, facts and laws that explain our universe. Science is much more than the knowing and applying of these facts. The world of science is so vast and endless.  When I was a student in elementary school, science was presented to me in the way that it was just facts that I needed to memorize. When I got to high school, my grade nine science teacher showed me that science is so much more than the facts. She showed me what these facts looked like in relation to the actual world. She showed me through many different experiments, videos and so many more resources. This Science teacher made me fall in love with science because I was taught that everything can be explained in some way. She taught me to ...

    Hello everyone welcome back to my learning adventure,   There was many different topics talked about today in class, and I was very interested in seeing the different insights people have. There are a variety of backgrounds with various different learners that I got to learn from. The various insights gave me an opportunity to see how different viewers see math.  I have come from a history of always having a somewhat natural ability in math, that I fostered through hard work and more learning. I have always been interested in math and found it like a puzzle when solving questions. I have always seen the beauty in math, and tried my best to understand the complexity of it as well. When we were discussing math, I noticed that many of my peers hear ‘math’, and automatically think of numbers or computations. One of the videos we watched in class, showed that even socially, people see math as symbols, number and computations. One google search of math, all images ...