As our Winter I team is winding down, I have an opportunity to pause and reflect on what I have learned last term. It was a great term with interesting courses, research, publications and conferences. I am also getting ready for teaching my ETEC 533 course – Technology in the Mathematics and Science Classroom. It […]

I am so excited about this opportunity to attend this conference. I feel a little intimidated here (a lot) as the people here know so much about technology, but I feel I can learn it. It is exciting to see people who are doing these amazing things.  Having an opportunity to interact with people who […]

As this busy summer is coming to an end, I keep thinking of what I have learned during the last three  months and what I would like to achieve in the new year. This summer was exceptionally busy for me: I helped to organize two international conferences (STEM 2014 conference at UBC) and 5th International […]

For the last four years I have been a member of the Toastmasters International Group (TMI) – Club 59 in Vancouver: http://www.tmclub59.com/ . I joined this organization because as a teacher and a teacher educator I wanted to be a role model to others and to convey my ideas clearly and succinctly. I have heard about TMI […]

I do not often post these kind of posts in my blog, as I deliberately decided to focus on mathematics and science education. However, the article I am referring to here deals with the issues that are relevant to many mathematics and science educators who are women, so it does fit. It is also relevant […]

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 […]

I am very fortunate to attend the winter 2014 Conference of the American Association of Physics Teachers. It gives me an opportunity to stay up with physics education, to learn from my colleagues and to share what we are doing here at UBC with others. I presented today at the session on physics teaching in […]

Early January is always the perfect time for New Year’s resolutions: we all want to be better in a new year – to eat better, to have better health, to exercise more consistently, to have more time for friends and family. I think the New Year resolution fever is not going to avoid science educators […]

These are very interesting and important results. I especially like the interactivity of the charts. I would recommend you to start with listening to their 3 min YouTube and then go and see their results of play with the data. I especially liked how they analyzed country’s performance by age… What does it mean that […]

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 […]