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Following the White Rabbit down the Hallowed Career Path

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The world has changed, and it continues to change.  As long as it revolves on its axis it will change and we, the human race, must change along with it.  So the fact that the career world has changed should be of no surprise.  We expect a 14-year-old to choose what they want to study as they progress through their education.  We narrow their field of vision assuming they have a chosen career in mind.  But how many of those 14-year-olds become what they aspired to?  How many became surgeons, or lawyers, its no different to asking a five-year-old what they want to be when they grow up.  When do they learn that being an astronaut or a postman actually isn't for them?  We impress on our youngsters, from an early age, that it is all about   what  you want to be and not   who  you want to become.  The ideal of a job for life is not the same anymore - the authors of the " Squiggly Career " (Tupper & Ellis) have shown us that....
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Ms Robertson Recommends Episode 2

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So you came back for more?! Good - I am glad you did.  Hopefully you let me know, in the comments of Episode 1 , what you thought of the podcast on pollen count? Today I am recommending another podcast - from the Stuff You Should Know guys - there will be a few of these (and by few I mean MANY). In Key Stage 3 (KS3) SCIENCE we start to separate out the sciences and we learn about colours and how they mix - which is very different to what we learn in art - in physics AND we learn about the eye in biology.  How we see in colour is one of those tricky subjects whereby you almost just have to believe in the magic - after all " science is like magic; but real ". Vision is amazing So click on the following link and have a listen to Josh & Chuck talk about how we (and animals) see colour.  If you need some more resources on this subject then please look no further.... I do love a Ted Ed video so here is one for you from  Colm Kelleher .  If you want to know a littl...
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Ms Robertson Recommends Episode 1

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It's a Ms Robertson Recommends Post There are so many things out there that we can read or listen to.  And that is without counting music, the radio, watching series on TV.  I am talking about things to do with science - things where you learn new things.  Those that know me (in a teaching sense) know that I love a video.  ****** once said that a picture paints a thousand words - well if that is the case what about an animated picture?! The phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" can be traced back further than the 1911 advertisement shown above.  Prior to Brisbane or Barnard it is said that Leonardo da Vinci wrote that a poet would be  "overcome by sleep and hunger before [being able to] describe with words what a painter is able to [depict] in an instant".   In fact even Napoleon Bonaparte got in on the act and can be quoted as saying  "A good sketch is better than a long speech".  These blog posts are going to be short ...
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