:)

Here’s a Scottish birthday cake for you.

Happy Birthday to You, sarah’s mum!

Happy birthday SM, 40th ?

Bubblecar said:

:)

Here’s a Scottish birthday cake for you.

:) and ta.

Many happy returns SM.

Peak Warming Man said:

Many happy returns SM.

:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many_happy_returns_

Many many happy returns.

HB, SM :)

Joyous birthday to you.

Bubblecar said:

:)

Here’s a Scottish birthday cake for you.

A Scottish Dalek

mollwollfumble said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many_happy_returns_

Many many happy returns.

thank you. I like the reference to Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore. the Coles delivery arrived and so there is better to be had than thistles. I used the last of my plain T bags yesterday. There is only so much earl grey that can be endured. So I am now sitting here with a strong cup of tea and a slice of Lemon loaf cake. Woohoo!

sibeen said:

HB, SM :)

Ta. :)

kii said:

apt. :)

Happy Birthday August person. ;)

roughbarked said:

Happy Birthday August person. ;)

:)
Its more than that. Born on 5/8/58..I am 58! Fancy.

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Birthday August person. ;)

:)
Its more than that. Born on 5/8/58..I am 58! Fancy.

That is impressive. I hope you’ll be observing this conjunction with 58 candles on the mud cake.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Birthday August person. ;)

:)
Its more than that. Born on 5/8/58..I am 58! Fancy.

That is impressive. I hope you’ll be observing this conjunction with 58 candles on the mud cake.

I just ate my $1 slice of Lemon loaf cake. It was like a cross between a good lemon madiera cake and aeroplane food.

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Birthday August person. ;)

:)
Its more than that. Born on 5/8/58..I am 58! Fancy.

:) and still a young lady too. :)

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Birthday August person. ;)

:)
Its more than that. Born on 5/8/58..I am 58! Fancy.

This does make me happy.

kii said:

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Birthday August person. ;)

:)
Its more than that. Born on 5/8/58..I am 58! Fancy.

This does make me happy.

it’s not that I believe in numerology but it is satisfying.

sarahs mum said:

kii said:

sarahs mum said:

:)
Its more than that. Born on 5/8/58..I am 58! Fancy.

This does make me happy.

it’s not that I believe in numerology but it is satisfying.

Same. It’s a pattern thing. Like when my birthday in 2002. 20/02/2002. I was quite excited about that.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/students-taught-pseudo-scientific-rubbish-experts-warn-20160804-gql9v1.html

A teaching style embraced by schools across Australia has been condemned as nothing more than a fad.

Leading education academics have warned that the strategy of tailoring teaching to students’ so-called “learning styles” was based on flawed theories that were not based on any evidence.

Yet this teaching style – which identifies learners as “visual, auditory or kinesthetic” – is still being promoted by state education departments as best practice teaching.

Professor Stephen Dinham, who has been teaching, researching and advising governments on education policy for 40 years, said schools were administering unreliable tests that categorised students as different types of learners.

Professor Dinham said the strategy was grounded in a pseudo-scientific notion that students were hard-wired to absorb information in certain ways, and teaching this way, he argued, is damaging to students’ learning.

“Would we tolerate doctors continuing to use a disproved, harmful treatment?” said Professor Dinham, who took aim at the strategy in his new book Leading Learning and Teaching, which will be launched by deputy premier James Merlino on Thursday evening.

“These things become almost like a superstition, people in schools are developing unquestioning beliefs. We need to focus on the things that we know work.

“Learning styles might seem intuitive, and sound reasonable … there is little hard research, and of the hard research that there is, the finding is that ‘learning styles’ don’t exist.”

dv said:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/students-taught-pseudo-scientific-rubbish-experts-warn-20160804-gql9v1.html

A teaching style embraced by schools across Australia has been condemned as nothing more than a fad.

Leading education academics have warned that the strategy of tailoring teaching to students’ so-called “learning styles” was based on flawed theories that were not based on any evidence.

Yet this teaching style – which identifies learners as “visual, auditory or kinesthetic” – is still being promoted by state education departments as best practice teaching.

Professor Stephen Dinham, who has been teaching, researching and advising governments on education policy for 40 years, said schools were administering unreliable tests that categorised students as different types of learners.

Professor Dinham said the strategy was grounded in a pseudo-scientific notion that students were hard-wired to absorb information in certain ways, and teaching this way, he argued, is damaging to students’ learning.

“Would we tolerate doctors continuing to use a disproved, harmful treatment?” said Professor Dinham, who took aim at the strategy in his new book Leading Learning and Teaching, which will be launched by deputy premier James Merlino on Thursday evening.

“These things become almost like a superstition, people in schools are developing unquestioning beliefs. We need to focus on the things that we know work.

“Learning styles might seem intuitive, and sound reasonable … there is little hard research, and of the hard research that there is, the finding is that ‘learning styles’ don’t exist.”

Gee. That’s news to me. I can’t learn by hearing & can easily learn by seeing.

dv said:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/students-taught-pseudo-scientific-rubbish-experts-warn-20160804-gql9v1.html

A teaching style embraced by schools across Australia has been condemned as nothing more than a fad.

Leading education academics have warned that the strategy of tailoring teaching to students’ so-called “learning styles” was based on flawed theories that were not based on any evidence.

Yet this teaching style – which identifies learners as “visual, auditory or kinesthetic” – is still being promoted by state education departments as best practice teaching.

Professor Stephen Dinham, who has been teaching, researching and advising governments on education policy for 40 years, said schools were administering unreliable tests that categorised students as different types of learners.

Professor Dinham said the strategy was grounded in a pseudo-scientific notion that students were hard-wired to absorb information in certain ways, and teaching this way, he argued, is damaging to students’ learning.

“Would we tolerate doctors continuing to use a disproved, harmful treatment?” said Professor Dinham, who took aim at the strategy in his new book Leading Learning and Teaching, which will be launched by deputy premier James Merlino on Thursday evening.

“These things become almost like a superstition, people in schools are developing unquestioning beliefs. We need to focus on the things that we know work.

“Learning styles might seem intuitive, and sound reasonable … there is little hard research, and of the hard research that there is, the finding is that ‘learning styles’ don’t exist.”

I had already read this. I didn’t know whether it was spin or conjecture or the real thing.

Tamb said:

dv said:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/students-taught-pseudo-scientific-rubbish-experts-warn-20160804-gql9v1.html

A teaching style embraced by schools across Australia has been condemned as nothing more than a fad.

Leading education academics have warned that the strategy of tailoring teaching to students’ so-called “learning styles” was based on flawed theories that were not based on any evidence.

Yet this teaching style – which identifies learners as “visual, auditory or kinesthetic” – is still being promoted by state education departments as best practice teaching.

Professor Stephen Dinham, who has been teaching, researching and advising governments on education policy for 40 years, said schools were administering unreliable tests that categorised students as different types of learners.

Professor Dinham said the strategy was grounded in a pseudo-scientific notion that students were hard-wired to absorb information in certain ways, and teaching this way, he argued, is damaging to students’ learning.

“Would we tolerate doctors continuing to use a disproved, harmful treatment?” said Professor Dinham, who took aim at the strategy in his new book Leading Learning and Teaching, which will be launched by deputy premier James Merlino on Thursday evening.

“These things become almost like a superstition, people in schools are developing unquestioning beliefs. We need to focus on the things that we know work.

“Learning styles might seem intuitive, and sound reasonable … there is little hard research, and of the hard research that there is, the finding is that ‘learning styles’ don’t exist.”

Gee. That’s news to me. I can’t learn by hearing & can easily learn by seeing.

I need to watch it being done and then doing it myself. If i can write it down and draw a picture I am much more likely to remember. So I need a picture to remember the words to remember the action.

Hippy Birdday to you

Arts said:

Hippy Birdday to you

ta muchly. waves