Archive for the 'Mathematics education' Category
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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Monday, May 13th, 2013
Today I began teaching an online course on the use of technology in mathematics and science classroom. It is an online course in the MET (Master’s in Educational Technology) Program at the UBC Faculty of Education. While the students introduced themselves, I decided to map their locations on a google map. I only have heard […]
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Saturday, March 30th, 2013
Today I happened to stumble upon a quote by Elbert Hubbard (1854-1915), who more than 100 years ago commented on the industrialization of the American society. Hubbard said: “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary Man.” This resonated with what I saw in […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
For the past three weeks I have been engaged in exploring different issues of mathematics and science teaching and learning with my teacher-candidates (pre-service mathematics and science teachers). Our group has 21 student-teachers. They chose a topic they wanted to research individually and then had to explore it in more depth and consequently present it […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Today is my blog day… I haven’t been posting much for the past three weeks as I have been very busy with teaching my daily Inquiry course for mathematics and physics teachers… and have been extremely busy with it. As the course is coming to an end, I have a little bit more time to […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
I have been teaching future mathematics and science secondary teachers for the past four months. This has been a very special opportunity for me. I had a privilege to spend time with people who all had graduated with science and mathematics B.Sc. degrees from our universities and who are motivated and inspired to teach the […]
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