Astronomical dyslexia blog ;-)))

 

Planetary conjunction

Hi every one hope you are all well

My followers will know of my interest in astronomy. Right now we can see a fab planetary conjunction. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will line up in the sky this week and could stay visible to the naked eye for a number of weeks.

We will be treated to this visible to the eye sight from mid / late April all the way through to early May, and the four planets will be visible early in the mornings before sunrise.

Best time to observe this phenomenon early morning from around 5am over the coming days, just after the planets rise above the horizon, but just before the Sun follows after them.

The Moon will also join the line-up on April 23, with a fifth planet – Mercury – becoming visible from June 24.

Here is a challenge for everyone. Take a photo of the conjunction and send it to me at steve_mccue@hotmail.com or by messenger on 078 287 414 73. I will put them on my Facebook.

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all

Steve McCue

Solving a Facebook / social media conundrum LOL

 

The birds are called BOOBIES by the way lol

Hi all hope you are well and now for something a little but more humorous.

Been looking at the traffic to my Facebook based on Gender, unfortunately the choice is binary. GET THAT SORTED FACEBOOK. By that metric around 80% of people visiting my social media are women and 20% are men. This reflects what I see in dyslexia support. So I had a think about ways to get more guys getting involved. Then it came to me in a flash lol. What I need is more boobies. Nice couple boobies eh guys?

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all

Steve McCue

Self-reflective learning and a dyslexia learning tool box.

I am dyslexic and if you dont like it you can bite my ass, believe me my ass can bite back lol

Hi every one

I am a vocal proponent of self-reflective learning as a tool for enabling student self development, as a means for thinking about themselves in an open and honest way, as a way of problem solving and overcoming the barriers we face within ourselves as well as in society. At work or in a learning environment. 

I have successfully utilised self-reflective learning tool box in my career and with a great many dyslexic and disabled students in my professional career as a dyslexia and inclusive education specialist working in colleges, universities and in my own organisation Dyslexia Pathways CIC.

It enables dyslexic students to develop a dyslexia learning tool box full of strategies to enable them to learn more effectively, to gain a greater insight into their dyslexia and become more aware of how to utilise their dyslexia strengths. More importantly, students can start to unlearn strategies that do not work for them.  

A dyslexia learning tool box is unique to each dyslexic and it is not a static never changing tool box. As new learning challenges arise a new tool may be needed to meet the challenge.

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all from me Steve McCue

How would non dyslexics cope in a dyslexic dominated world?

Hi everybody, another Friday is upon us so I thought I would publish a blog I wrote some time but didnt publish. In Scotland we say, I swithered about publishing it.

Children are all born with an innate desire and need to learn. When we send our dyslexic kids to school, they, like non - dyslexic kids want to learn, to read, to write and do all the other learning activities kids at school. But because our education system is dyslexia unfriendly that innate desire gets lost in anxiety and trauma.

However, because so many of our dyslexic kids either go un-assessed as being dyslexic or are known to be dyslexic but get little to no support they fail. Our education system traumatises and fails dyslexic kids, rather than educate and nurture them . Dyslexic kids fail, not because they are dyslexic, but because they are not taught in ways they can access to learning effectively or with learning materials that are dyslexia unfriendly.

 Kids never fail and when you have only 19% of dyslexic adults being assessed while at school. We have to look at teachers and society that fail our dyslexic kids. Not blame kids them selves or their parents.

It is this that disables not being dyslexic. Many dyslexics struggle in a non dyslexic, dyslexia unfriendly world and it makes me wonder how non dyslexics would fare in a dyslexic dominated world? 

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all from me Steve Mccue

Dyslexia, social enterprise and social model of dyslexia

Hi, just a quick video

This is an old video I made about dyslexia, social enterprise and social model of dyslexia and about our alternative vision for dyslexia. Your comments and thoughts on the video are, as always welcomed, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EUu1Rp3Mito

#PeaceLoveGrooveyness from me

Steve McCue