Today I participated in BC Association of Physics Teachers Professional Development event. It was a very successful event and I wrote about it on the BCAPT web site. However, what made it especially memorable and special for me is that I had an opportunity to meet my former students who are now physics teachers in […]
As I am writing my last blog post this summer, I have noticed a number of new posts online on the “stop-homework-before-it-stops-us” movement. The movement, or at least the way I understood it, aims to abolish homework in our schools as it has very low value (if not a negative value) in the eyes of […]
Last week I had a very special opportunity that I almost missed… UBC Faculty of Applied Science invited Sheila Tobias to present a special lecture . I have learned about Sheila Tobias many years ago. When I was working on my Ph.D. at the University of TX at Austin, my supervisor advised me to read Sheila’s […]
I am very happy to report that 39th UBC Physics Olympics was a huge success. We had a record number of teams (69!) from all over BC (more than 500 British Columbia students came to participate!) and more than 60 amazing volunteers – faculty, students and staff from the Faculty of Science (Department of Physics […]
I am very fortunate to participate in a very special conference organized by the Beijing Advanced Innovation Centre for Future Education under the auspieces of the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. The goal of the project to facilitate a collaboration between researchers at BNU and other countries (Finland, Canada, etc.) in the field […]
USING TECHNOLOGY TO PROMOTE HIGH QUALITY SCIENCE EDUCATION ONLINE AND FACE-TO-FACE For the last five years I have been teaching an online graduate course in the Master of Educational Technology online graduate program at UBC (http://met.ubc.ca/). Since it is an online course, educators from all over the world can enrol in it and they do. […]
I am getting ready to attend a Euro Science Fun Conference in Iceland. I have been actively involved in math and science outreach for almost two decades now. I am very familiar with the outreach efforts (in math, physics and chemistry) that are going on in North America. I have helped to establish a number […]
To find more about it click here: http://news.ubc.ca/2015/10/21/math-phobias-fighting-the-fear/
I wanted to draw your attention to the recent radio series on Canadian CBC Radio with Paul Kennedy – The Ideas. The Ideas in my view is one of the best radio shows out there. I love how they chose topics and how they explore them always making you to want more. This special 3-part series […]