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Archive for the 'Overcoming technology barriers' Category

OnlineUniversities.com Summarizes Teachers’ Use of Technology

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

This graphics is produced by OnlineUniversities.com and is posted here with their permission.

PhysClips – Mechanics Animations and Much-Much More

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

While attending a STEM 2012 Conference in Beijing China I happened to attend a workshop about a Physclips project – it is a great resource for teaching physics created by our colleagues from the University of South Wales in Australia. I found it to be a great resources and I recommended it to my teacher-candidates… I […]

BCAPT Fall 2012 Meeting at TRIUMF

Sunday, October 21st, 2012

I had a great opportunity to attend the BCAPT Fall 2012 Meeting together with more than 60 other physics teachers from all over BC. I just wanted to tell you how much impressed I was by the presentation of Dr. Bernd Stelzer from Simon Fraser University who spoke about the recent discoveries in the field […]

World Teachers’ Day – October 5, 2012

Friday, October 5th, 2012

I just found out that October 5th has been designated by UNESCO as World Teachers’ Day. I was glad that it is an official day and many great teachers all over the world will be recognized today. Teachers play such an important role in our lives… I also hope that Teachers who inspire their students […]

Science Education Review

Monday, September 10th, 2012

As a science education researcher and a science teacher who teaches future teachers and often visits schools,  I often feel that there is a large gap between what we know about how students learn science and how we teach it. Part of it is due to the gap between the innovations in science education described […]

Stephen Wolfram Talks about Computing as a Theory of Everything…

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

For me as a science and mathematics teacher “Wolfram Alpha” is something that will help us and our students to build intuition. I use it all the time and I hope my students will do the same. I am amazed at how modern powerful tools are changing how we learn or hopefully how we teach… […]

Salman Khan Talks about Flipping the Classroom

Sunday, July 8th, 2012

A Day Made of Glass

Friday, July 6th, 2012

I love museums of glass and Corning Museum of Glass is one of my favourite ones. I was fortunate to visit it three times. However, this video just made me wonder how technologies, like the ones mentioned in the video will change our lives. We talk about technology affecting science and math learning in my […]

Arthur Benjamin does “Mathemagic”

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles” – an important TED talk to Educators

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

A few days ago I inadvertently allowed Google to install GooglePlus on my Galaxy tablet. As the installation has been completed, I realized that Google started forcing me to see the news and the links that it believed were important for me. This became an annoyance, as I didn’t noticing any of it before. However, […]

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