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Archive for the 'Interactivity in the classroom' Category

Gary Hoban: Slowmation and much more

Thursday, January 9th, 2014

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 how he uses Slowmation with his pre-service primary teachers. I discussed this project to some […]

AAPT 2014 Presentations: Spotlight on PeerWise

Thursday, January 9th, 2014

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 have been focussing on lately is PeerWise. This is a very powerful collaborative tool that […]

STEM 2014 at UBC: STEM Education and Our Planet: Making Connections Across Contexts

Friday, October 18th, 2013

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 web site, I want to share that we, as organizers, are working very hard to […]

Fish is Fish: Happy New School Year!!!

Wednesday, September 4th, 2013

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 worth watching, as it remind us how important it is for teachers to remember that […]

Educational Tutorials from ETEC533 Course

Sunday, August 4th, 2013

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 new courses this year, three of them I designed), teaching all summer long, teaching online… […]

Reflections on Teaching an Online Course about Educational Technologies in STEM

Friday, August 2nd, 2013

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 we met daily with students for 2.5 hours on campus. This was a great course […]

IPTEL 2013 at UBC

Friday, July 12th, 2013

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 around the world are using technology. As I am teaching two courses now on technology […]

Eric Mazur’s Lecture: The Tyranny of the Lecture

Friday, June 28th, 2013

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 thirty years pioneers various interactive engagement pedagogies and developed the technologies that can enable them. […]

An Online Course about Technology-Enabled Math and Science Learning

Wednesday, June 5th, 2013

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, but here are a few projects designed by the students. I found them very powerful. […]

Technology in Math & Science: An Active Table…

Monday, May 13th, 2013

I have been thinking about SMART Boards for a while now. One of the concerns I have had, is that this technology is very much teacher-centered… You can do many exciting things with SMART Boards, but one person at a time… This is a concern for me.  Luckily, I am teaching an online course now […]

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