Archive for the 'Physics Education' Category
Friday, June 29th, 2012
I recently became aware of a new Canadian resource for science educators that merges technology, science education and active learning: http://www.saltise.ca/The site comes from Quebec and I personally know the people involved in its development. I hope to have an opportunity to collaborate with them. The site addresses a lot of the issues I am […]
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
As I am getting ready to teach my summer course, I keep looking for resources. It is a fabulous website. I love the idea of scale and how technology can help us visualize it more interactively. As soon as I think of it, the famous movie by Charles and Ray Eams (a husband and a […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
It is hard to find a person who has made a more significant contribution to education than Prof. Emeritus from Stanford – Dr. Lee S. Shulman. I have never had a chance to meet Prof. Shulman in person, yet his name popped up so often in discussions on teaching, that I felt as if I […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
As I am preparing for teaching my summer course EDCP 585A_2012 Milner-Bolotin_June 28_2012 – Science and Mathematics Teaching and Learning through Technologies, I have a chance to rethink how technology has changed (or has not changed) how we learn mathematics and science. To help me rethink it, I decided to look at the history of […]
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Saturday, February 25th, 2012
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 […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
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. […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
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 […]
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
I am very excited to announce that this year once again we will be holding a very special mathematics and science event at the Faculty of Education during the Celebrate Learning Week. And the event is: Mathematics and Science Fair 2011. It will take place on November 5th and is open to evertybody, but you […]
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
A very interesting conference on Physics Education took place on August 3-4, 2011 in Omaha, NE. A few personal highlights: Prof. Andy Rundquist from Hemlin University spoke about assessment in upper level undergraduate physics courses. I was especially interested how he uses tablets and other technology to evaluate students’ thinking about problems. His focus is […]
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