This is an amazing TED’s talk. I strongly recommend it to all people who care about education. Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, Mrs. Sheryl Sandberg talks about why women are underachieving despite all the efforts that had been done in… Read moreWhy do we have too few women leaders?
As I am thinking how technology changes our lives and affects our teaching, I cannot help thinking of one of the best Teachers’ resources (in my view) on the web that became available thanks to modern technology: Teachers TV from… Read moreTeachers TV: Free educational videos from UK
I haven’t had a chance to post messages in a while, as I have been very busy. However, today I feel there is a good reason for a post. This term I teach a science methods course to future elementary… Read moreVirtual Owl Pellet Dissection: World’s most famous barfologist…
As we are going back to school, many of us keep thinking how technology will change the coming school year. Will it help us make our classes more meaningful and exciting for the students? Will it help us reach each… Read moreTechnology: Will it change how our classrooms look or how our students learn?
A few days ago my sister pointed to me the quote above and it made me think how beautiful this quote reflects what is happening often with educational technology. Many of us (sometimes myself included) feel that if we get… Read more“To a Man with a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail” (Mark Twain)
This is a link to the video clips produced by the Carl Weiman Science Education Initiatives at the University of British Columbia and at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I like how these videos illustrate different aspects of clicker use…. Read moreClickers: Students and Teachers Speak
MERLOT is a resource in the form of a database of educational multimedia materials for learning and online teaching in many disciplines (including sciences, teacher prep, humanities, etc.). However, MERLOT is more than that – it is a content building… Read moreGreat Online Educational Resource: MERLOT
This is a very interesting link to the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/resource/a-class-without-walls . The paper describes the use of mobile technologies in British Schools. You will also find related links on the site. Although it is not a research paper, it is… Read moreA Class Without Walls: Can Technology Make a Difference
