Today I was listening to a special podcast by Linda E. Allen on the Toastmasters web site. She was talking about the importance of doing things that push us outside of our comfort zone. Although she was referring to public speaking and leadership, I was thinking of how it applies to teaching. When being a […]

I just read an excellent paper about the validity of what we know about the Learning Styles Hypothesis and I strongly recommend it to others (Pashler, H., McDaniel, M., Rohrer, D., & Bjork, R. (2009). Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 9(3), 105-119.) The reason I think the paper is […]

Today I was thinking how technology changed what we read and how we read. I always loved reading and in any place I lived I always owned a large library which kept moving from town to town and from country to country. OK, large might be an exaggeration or at least a relative term, but […]

Today is the first day of 2010. I keep wondering what new technological twists and applications to math and science teaching will it bring us? As I woke up today and realized that it is raining once again here (in Vancouver), so I decided to indulge myself in reading… Luckily I have my Sony reader […]

As New Year is approaching and many of us are trying to make new year resolutions that will change our lives, I thought of coming up with New Year resolutions related to how I use technology in my classes.  So here it goes… In 2010 I will try to use New Technologies in a slightly […]