I would like to share this video. I think it is a very inspirational video, but I also think it is a troubling one. It shows that our society (luckily we are much better in Canada than in the US) does not value teaching enough, as we are not ready not only to pay teachers […]

  If you were to ask me why I like to teach my online ETEC 533 course – “Exploring  Technology in Mathematics and Science classroom” so much, I will give you at least three reasons: a) The graduate students (we have 24 students in this class) who take this course are self-motivated, knowledgeable and very creative people […]

In three weeks (on January 21st)  I will be speaking at Nerd Nite Vancouver event:  http://vancouver.nerdnite.com/. In 15 minutes I will have an opportunity to share with the audience ( I think these are people who might not be scientists but who are interested in t) how I see the future of education and how […]

I  had a very special opportunity to take part in an Educational Technology Conference organized at Technion by Professor Orit Hazzan and her colleagues this December. The conference focused on various uses of technology in STEM and engaging students in STEM learning both Face to Face and onlne. It also discussed STEM teacher education at Technion: […]

December is often the time when we think of our New Year resolutions. For some of us they stick, while for others, they fade away during the first few weeks of January. In this post, I would like to write about the New Year resolution I made in 2010 – to improve my public speaking […]

A new Canadian book on online education has been published recently. It is an edited book and I have a chapter in it. My chapter deals with online graduate education. I hope it will be of interest to colleague who teach online or who are considering to do so. Chapter: M. Milner-Bolotin, In Teaching Online: […]

As our Winter I team is winding down, I have an opportunity to pause and reflect on what I have learned last term. It was a great term with interesting courses, research, publications and conferences. I am also getting ready for teaching my ETEC 533 course – Technology in the Mathematics and Science Classroom. It […]

I am so excited about this opportunity to attend this conference. I feel a little intimidated here (a lot) as the people here know so much about technology, but I feel I can learn it. It is exciting to see people who are doing these amazing things.  Having an opportunity to interact with people who […]

I am very excited and honoured to be a plenary speaker at the 5th North American Geogebra Conference that is taking place on November 20-21 in Toronto, ON: https://sites.google.com/site/geogebranorthamerica2014/schedule  Preparing my presentation made me think once again about how we use technology in STEM Education and how we prepare teachers to use technology effectively. I am looking […]

I would like to share a PowerPoint I created for my graduate course on Science Education (EDCP 559). We are going to discuss the issues related to the nature of science and I decided to take a topic of evolution as an example. I chose this topic for today (even though biology is not my […]