Archive for the 'Personal' Category
Friday, July 15th, 2011
A student of mine today draw my attention to the following statistics: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/u-s-teen-mobile-report-calling-yesterday-texting-today-using-apps-tomorrow/ American teens (ages 13-17) on average send or receive a whooping number of 3339 messages a month. I am not sure if this stats is relevant to Canadian teens, but I would presume, there must be similarities. However, in Canada, the use […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2011
I have a very interesting opportunity to teach a summer graduate course on the use of educational technologies in science and mathematics teaching and learning. First of all it is a graduate course. It means that all of the students have been teaching science, mathematics or other disciplines in the past and they have knowledge […]
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
During the past week, a group of us, from the Faculty of Education at UBC had an opportunity to visit one of the largest refugee camps in the world – Dadaab Refugee Camp in North-East Kenya. The goal of our visit was to help establish a teacher education program in the camp, such as the […]
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
During the CAP 2011 Congress in St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador we had a chance to reconnect with our women physicists colleagues from all over Canada and from UK. Ann Marks from UK – a physics teacher who initiated Physics in Primary School Project in the UK came to present to our community (see my […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Many years ago I was teaching an introductory physics course using Paul Hewett’s Conceptual Physics textbook. There I read about the Eratosthenes’s experiment that allowed him to measure the radius of the Earth. This happened more than 2000 years ago (see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes) … Eratosthenes’s ingenuity drew my attention – to measure something so big […]
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011
I feel very fortunate to get to know Olivia Fermi who is a very interesting person in her own right (Olivia is an artist), but in addition to that she is also a granddaughter of a famous physicist America-Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. Enrico Fermi took an active part in the Manhattan Project and has been […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2011
My blog has been dormant for almost a month. There are a few reasons for it, but it certainly doesn’t mean I didn’t have anything interesting to write about. One of the most interesting things that happened last month was the presentation on sustainability by Prof. Albert Allen Bartlett. The presentation was excellent and you […]
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
Once all scientists die and go to heaven. They decide to play “Hide-n-seek”. Unfortunately Einstein is the one who has the den… He is supposed to count up to 100 and then start searching… Everyone starts hiding except for Newton. Newton just draws a square of 1 meter and stands inside this square. Einstein is […]
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
This video was shared with me by a friend. Although I have seen this demo before, I still love it. I think you can just build it yourself – a fun project for a high school physics class. Notice, the pendula are uncoupled.
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
I would like to share with you a report by Rachel Ivie (Assistant Director of AIP Statistical Research Center). It is an important read for any science or mathematics educator.I am fortunate to know Rachel personally and I know how much effort has been put into collecting and analyzing this data. Rachel’s team has done […]
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