I was so excited to participate in the 3rd Women in Science Conference held at Simon Fraser University. I posted more about it on www.bcapt.ca It was a great event and the women at Simon Fraser University who organized it did an amazing job. The quality of talks and panels was just outstanding. I […]

This summer I have been very busy. I have been teaching two graduate courses. Both focused on the implementation of educational technologies in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields. One of these courses was an intensive three week course where we met daily with students for 2.5 hours on campus. This was a great course […]

A few days ago I had a chance to attend a talk by Dwayne Huebner. He is a philosopher, an educator, a theologian. It was a very interesting talk. However, what I remembered the most is his mentioning of how we, educators, are trying to COVER the material… I love language and I immediately started […]

I have had two days of the most interesting and stimulating conversations about the use of technology in education. IPTEL conference this year was the first conference organized by UBC Faculty of Education that tried to bring people interested in the use of technology in education (in the very broad sense of the world) together […]

Canadian Society for the Studies of Education (CSSE) met in Victoria at the beginning of June 2013. This is THE Canadian organization that  brings together all of us who are involved in research on education. I belong to a number of subgroups of CSSE, such as Technology in Teacher Education, Science Education Research Group and […]

A few days ago I happened to attend a conference at UBC, titled Creating Connections 2013. The conference lasted for two days and was organized  by Prof. Elizabeth Croft and her team. Elizabeth is an NSERC Research Chair on Women in Science Engineering and Technology for BC and Yukon region and she is certainly one of […]

Today I began teaching an online course on the use of technology in mathematics and science classroom. It is an online course in the MET (Master’s in Educational Technology) Program at the UBC Faculty of Education. While the students introduced themselves, I decided to map their locations on a google map. I only have heard […]

A few weeks ago a colleague of mine shared a NY Times article with me that reported the results of PISA (International Science Assessment) broken down by gender. The paper was very interesting and if you click on the image, you will be able to access it. The authors focused on the fact that in […]

Today I had an opportunity to visit a local elementary school. This was a regular yet a very special school visit for me, as this was the school that  my own kids attended when we came to Canada. For more than 8 years I have been a member of the Scientists and Innovators in the […]

Today I happened to stumble upon a quote by Elbert Hubbard (1854-1915), who more than 100 years ago commented on the industrialization of the American society. Hubbard said: “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary Man.” This resonated with what I  saw in […]