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• Marina Milner-Bolotin wrote a new blog post: New Year Thoughts on Science Teaching, Learning and Research   6 minutes ago · View

  My blog has been dormant for a while. However, the lack of my activity has nothing to do with the lack of exciting developments in science education in Vancouver, in Canada and int he world. Vice versa, there have been so many interesting science education things in my life, that I could barely keep up. [...]

• taylor loren wrote a new blog post: The Dreamhorse   25 minutes ago · View

  So, we’ve already drooled over and endorsed Tagg Jefferson , but in the bar the other day he showed us this photo that his “roommate” made to describe him. Since Issues That Matter deemed him a “Dark Horse” and we deemed him a “Dreamboat” this is the, uh…well, The Dreamhorse. This post was written by Taylor, who, unlike Hans said, [...]

• mcs1 wrote a new blog post: Knowledge Transfer Using Social Software in Developing Countries   48 minutes ago · View

  Some really intersting information in here , including a rubric-like chart (see Table 1: Benefits and barriers of the use of specific social software), reagrding using social software in developing countries. There are some interesting points that relate directly to class discussion regarding Pro-D, I think. Thought folks may be inetrested. Also a fantastic bibliography with [...]

• E Wayne Ross wrote a new blog post: Chan v UBC (BC Human Rights Tribunal)   53 minutes ago · View

  Chan v. University of British Columbia and Haverkamp and Farrar and Shapiro and Tierney (No. 2), 2012 BCHRT 12 INTRODUCTION Jennifer Chan filed a complaint alleging that Beth Haverkamp, David Farrar, Jon Shapiro, Robert Tierney and the University of British Columbia (collectively the “Respondents”) discriminated against her with respect to the appointment of the David Lam Chair in Multicultural [...]

• Roger Cutting wrote a new blog post: Love in the Ruins or My Romantic Dalliance With Holistic Science   8 hours, 10 minutes ago · View

  We were childhood sweethearts. I grew up the late 1960’s in south Essex, Britain’s Motown – a land of car plants, oil refineries and scrap metal. The great Essex marshes had long since been buried under concrete and steel, but as a kid the lights on the oil refineries at night spoke their own magic [...]