I think Olivia’s thoughts on the panel are worth looking at: http://transmediavancouver.com/2012/02/25/james-hansens-dilemma-science-is-not-enough/ I hope you will enjoy reading her post the same way I did.

As science educators we know that science teaching is much more than lesson plans or science labs. It is also much more than technology we use in the classroom to teach science. Science teaching is also about WHO IS A SCIENTIST and CAN I BE ONE? I really liked how Allie Willinson decided to challenge […]

I have had an amazing opportunity to attend two very exciting conference this February – the American Association of Physics Teachers’ Conference in Ontario, California and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference in Vancouver. I put many of my comments about the events on my www.bcapt.ca blog and I do not want […]

My blog has been dormant for a while. However, the lack of my activity has nothing to do with the lack of exciting developments in science education in Vancouver, in Canada and int he world. Vice versa, there have been so many interesting science education things in my life, that I could barely keep up. […]

A friend of mine, Olivia Fermi, will be giving a talk about the Neutron Trail project she has been working on for a number of years now. Olivia is a great public speaker and I would strongly recommend you attend this very special event. It will take place on January 19th at Instituto Italiano di […]

As the term is coming to an end, I have some time to reflect on different things that I have been thinking about recently. One of them is the use of electronic response systems (clickers) in elementary classrooms. I have been teaching a science methods course this term and I used clickers and I kept […]

I haven’t been contributing consistently to my blog this term, as I have been very busy. However, today I have to report that I think I have a good excuse for being silent. On Saturday November 5, 2011 we (our Education Student-Teachers, graduate students, faculty and staff) at the Faculty of Education held our second […]

A few days ago I happened to lay my hands on a very special book by a Canadian educator, an elementary teacher with years of experience, Mr. Marjan  Glavac “Teaching Is…: Moments that inspire and motivate teachers to make a difference”. This is a very inspirational book about the moments in and outside of the […]

Today I happened to stumble on a very interesting blog by Vi Hart. Actually it was shown to me by a student who is a mathematics teacher and who loves it. I enjoyed it very much as well. It is very interesting how art and science and mathematics come together in this blog. Vi Hart […]

It would be interesting to know what the creators (the major brains behind it: Fermi, Oppenheimer, Einstein, Bethe, …)  of the atomic bomb would have thought about the consequences of their brain child. Unfortunately none of them is alive and recent developments in Japan and not so recent (25 years ago) in Chernobyl, continue to […]