I just got this information today about a European video that aims to attract girl to science. They apparently invested considerable money into their campaign: Science, It’s a girl thing! When I watched this video, I couldn’t believe what I saw. I wonder what was the motivation behind this video? Did they want to make […]

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… […]

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 […]

I am very fortunate to teach a very exciting graduate course this summer: A course on the use of educational technologies in mathematics and science teaching. This course makes me think about a lot of things, including how technology changes us as people, as learners, as parents… This talk was mentioned by one of the […]

I am re-posting my own post from the www.bcapt.ca web site: It is not that often that science news makes the front page of our newspapers and the headlines of news reports. Today is the day. Today, on July 4th, 2012, scientists at CERN (CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research ) announced that […]

I think it is worth watching for any teacher… I enjoyed this TED talk very much.

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, […]

 British Columbia Public Education scene has been in turmoil in the past few years. Last year, a job action of BC teachers has shaken it even more. However, the actions by the BC Government towards public education make many of us even more puzzled than the actions of BC Teachers’ Union. Just yesterday, our Premier, […]

  I just came back from the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Physicists that took place in Calgary, Alberta. It was a very intensive meeting for me as I am a member of the Division of Physics Education that has 9 sessions and of the Committee on Women in Physics. We were lucky […]