I have received a number of requests and questions asking me how I use electronic response system (clickers) in my science courses. I have been using clickers for almost 9 years now. I have written a few papers about it and have given seminars on clicker use to teachers and university faculty. This summer I […]
After reading many of the posts of my students in the ETEC 533 course I can attest that many of them are as overwhelmed as I am. So while setting into a new office, I thought of the lecture by Randy Pausch I heard a year and a half ago. Many of you have heard […]
I am thinking why online courses are more often referred to as “Online Learning” and not “Online Teaching”. May be because in those courses both the teacher and the students are undergoing a truly online learning experience as they are at the same time to a small degree teachers and to a larger degree learners… […]
I mentioned TPACK in my previous post. Here is a useful link: http://www.tpack.org/tpck/index.php?title=Main_Page
As the first day of classes is coming to an end and I keep reading the e-mails from my online students (who are mathematics, general science, biology, chemistry and health science teachers, as well as other professionals), I keep thinking of how technology can help us bridge the gap between these fields. In other words, […]
I guess, the title of this post speaks for itself. It is always exciting to think of the first day of classes. However, for me, this time around it is going to be a very special first day. I will not be entering a real classroom and meeting my students face-to-face. Tomorrow, I will officially […]
Today I was thinking how technology changed what we read and how we read. I always loved reading and in any place I lived I always owned a large library which kept moving from town to town and from country to country. OK, large might be an exaggeration or at least a relative term, but […]
Today is the first day of 2010. I keep wondering what new technological twists and applications to math and science teaching will it bring us? As I woke up today and realized that it is raining once again here (in Vancouver), so I decided to indulge myself in reading… Luckily I have my Sony reader […]