Seminar Series: Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy

STEM Outcomes of Second-Generation Israeli Immigrant Students with High-Skilled Parental Backgrounds: A discussion with educators Svetlana’s presentation: Chachashvili-Bolotin_FULLSeminarCAN20190920 Dr. Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin Israel is a multicultural society that has experienced waves of Jewish immigration since its foundation in 1948. Most of… Read moreSeminar Series: Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy

New Year, New Challenges, New Beginnings

As we are enjoying the last weeks of summer, many of us start thinking about the new academic year. This is always an exciting time for teachers, students, university professors, and families. This is also a perfect time to ask… Read moreNew Year, New Challenges, New Beginnings

GIREP 2019 Congress in Budapest

I am very fortunate to be invited to participate in a Symposium at the GIREP 2019 Congress in Budapest. I was invited by my esteemed Hungarian colleagues from Eotvos Lorand University , whom I met in 2017. I met Prof…. Read moreGIREP 2019 Congress in Budapest

AR and VR in STEM Education

My student Ryan Lin and I are working on introducing Google Tours to future STEM teachers. We think this technology has a lot of potential in a STEM classroom as it allows to connect Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality… Read moreAR and VR in STEM Education

UBC Celebrate Learning Week

My team and I are very excited to participate in the 11th Annual UBC Celebrate Learning Week. We are presenting a poster on the 3D Learning project we have been involved in. We have been working on the OmniGlobe project… Read moreUBC Celebrate Learning Week

Cross-Canada forum: STEM in teacher education – A Canadian perspective

On April 9, 2019 I was invited to participate in a very interesting panel organized by the OISE’s (Ontario Institute for the Studies in Education) Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT) Centre and the Canadian Science Education Research Group (SERG). These… Read moreCross-Canada forum: STEM in teacher education – A Canadian perspective

41st UBC Physics Olympics – Reflections

This Saturday, on March 9, 2019 we held our 41st UBC Physics Olympics. More than 730 BC secondary students participated in the events. They represented 72 teams from all over British Columbia who worked tirelessly for months to create their… Read more41st UBC Physics Olympics – Reflections