Archive for the 'Personal' Category
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
I just finished teaching my summer course “Teaching Mathematics and Science Through Technologies”. It was one of the best course I have ever taught – thanks to an amazing group of students who decided to enroll in the course. It was three weeks of daily 3 hour long meetings that gave us an opportunity to […]
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Friday, July 20th, 2012
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 […]
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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… […]
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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 […]
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Friday, July 6th, 2012
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 […]
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
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 […]
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
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Monday, July 2nd, 2012
I think it is worth watching for any teacher… I enjoyed this TED talk very much.
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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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Friday, June 29th, 2012
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, […]
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