I am honoured to be invited to present an invited talk at Korean Association of Science Education National Conference that will take place at Daegu University in February of this year. As I am preparing and practicing my talk Using… Read moreUsing Educational Technology to Promote Inquiry in Science Teacher Education
Today I happened to attend a presentation by Garry Hoban – a professor of science education from the University of Wollongong in Australia. In his presentation organized by the Centre of Teaching and Learning and Technology at UBC (CTLT) Garry discussed… Read moreGary Hoban: Slowmation and much more
I just came back from the AAPT Winter 2014 National Meeting. My team presented 4 presentations there: two posters and two contributed talks. Our presentations focused on the use of technology in physics teacher education. One piece of technology we… Read moreAAPT 2014 Presentations: Spotlight on PeerWise
I am very proud to say that I am a member of the Organizing Committee of the STEM 2014 Conference that will be hosted by our Department this Summer. While you can read the information about the conference from its… Read moreSTEM 2014 at UBC: STEM Education and Our Planet: Making Connections Across Contexts
I would like to wish all teachers, students and parents a wonderful new year. As I am thinking of a year ahead, one of my favourite stories comes to mind “Fish is Fish” by Leo Leoni. I think it is… Read moreFish is Fish: Happy New School Year!!!
This summer I had an amazing opportunity to teach an online graduate course in the Master of Educational Technology Program at UBC. I was a little bit apprehensive of it at first – a new graduate course (I taught four… Read moreEducational Tutorials from ETEC533 Course
This summer I have been very busy. I have been teaching two graduate courses. Both focused on the implementation of educational technologies in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields. One of these courses was an intensive three week course where… Read moreReflections on Teaching an Online Course about Educational Technologies in STEM
From July 11-13, Faculty of Education at UBC is hosting an international conference on technology in education: http://ocs.educ.ubc.ca/index.php/IPTEL/IPTEL2013 – International Perspective on Technology-Enhanced Learning. I am looking forward to it as it will be a great opportunity to see how educators… Read moreIPTEL 2013 at UBC
On May 6th, I was very fortunate to attend a public lecture hosted by the UBC Centre of Teaching Learning and Technology. This public lecture “The Tyranny of the Lecture” featured a Harvard Professor Eric Mazur who for the last… Read moreEric Mazur’s Lecture: The Tyranny of the Lecture
I am currently teaching a graduate online course that explores how students learn mathematics and science with technology and how we can design more effective learning environments to support students. I do not want to tell much about this course,… Read moreAn Online Course about Technology-Enabled Math and Science Learning
