Month: February 2024

Applied Math and Science

8 February 2024 / / 0 Comments

Math was never my favourite subject. It’s interesting now becoming an educator who will be teaching math. My numeracy class is getting me more and more interested in it. Exploring different ways of teaching it. I was only taught out of a textbook in school when it came to math. So participating in these activities is great.

Computer science was a class I took in college. I thought there would be no way I’d be able to pass with the highest grade I’ve ever got in math or science. My teacher was so good. She explained everything throughly and for some reason my brain just understood it. So I was able to actually somewhat follow this presentation. Wasn’t completely left field for me. Joseph Jefferies is a presenter who came into our numeracy class and blew a lot of minds with his knowledge on math and science. He shared mini lessons and helped through a lot of questions. It’s always interesting learning about different lessons that isn’t just a textbook or a worksheet.

https://www.csunplugged.org/en/

CSunplugged is a website that has many different resources for educators and students. It shows different topics and different grade levels. Many different lessons that can be formatted in many different ways and understandings. It shows computer science lessons without computers.

We did a pixel lesson by colouring different sheets of paper that turned into an image. Linked to talking about pixels and compressing them.

Also, sorting games with numbers and pictures. Which sounds easy but it was not. Linking it to memory, binary numbers, and processing. Probably much more that Joseph Jefferies could tell you.

Photos from UNBCED Instagram and Facebook

ARC BC: Accessible Resource Centre of BC

8 February 2024 / / 0 Comments

Home for alternative formatted digital books turning hardcopy to accessible formats.

Anything from digital textbooks and novels, they can even format any books you need that they don’t already have made. Digitally splicing and scanning every page needed for the student. ARC exists for students with learning disabilities both physical and visual. Perceptual disability holding seeing or understanding in its original physical books. The Accessible BC Act (ABC Act) is a BC law to identify and prevent barriers to Accessibility.

A accessible committee is (should be) appointed in every district, half of the people need to have a disability and at least 1 person with an Indigenous background. To work with the district to make it more accessible for all students. Not just adding in ramps and railings (which is of course important) but there is a lot more to be done. Especially with learning disabilities there are so many different ones both noticeable and not.

 I totally forgot about if parents had a disability providing alternative ways of reading or incorporating alternative text. There is so much that needs to be done for people with disabilities both mental and physical anything we can do that helps we should. Stuff to consider when writing emails, forms, powerpoints etc.. for students and even parents.

Font: calibri, arial, verdana, and Tahoma

-size higher than 11

Lettering: Watch colors and contrast

-Use alternative text and image

Hyperlinks: use full name not just the url text to speech readers will read the entire thing, which can be confusing and long. 

This is a great resource and I didn’t know this existed till the presentation. This is such a good idea and I will be using this if needed in my practice.

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