Archive for the 'Science in everyday life' Category
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
We have had a very successful Fifth Math and Science Family Day on October 18, 2015. We had 300+ guests and more than 80 volunteers including faculty members, staff, many teacher-candidates, as well as graduate and undergraduate students from the Faculties of Education, Science, Applied Science, Let Us Talk Science, as well as volunteers outside […]
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Monday, June 1st, 2015
As I am reflecting on my experience of working with Chinese mathematics and science teachers, my students (in a graduate course on mathematics and science education I am currently teaching) pointed out to me that I missed a CBC radio discussion on the Cross Country Check up that focuses exactly on this problem. I am […]
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Thursday, May 28th, 2015
This is a very special certificate for me. I am so glad I decided to take on this challenge. I have learned so much from these teachers and I am looking forward to more interactions with our Chinese colleagues.
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
I started teaching the second week of my course today. I have enjoyed the day very much as I had a very good interpretor, and I knew much better how to engage students. Today we discussed how to use clickers in the classroom and solved some interesting problems. It is amazing that Chinese teachers […]
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
I have finished teaching Week 1 of the course. What an exciting experience. I am very inspired by what I saw here. Most importantly, I realized that good teaching has no borders. Here is what Chinese teachers found most useful:] 1) PhET simulations 2) Clickers 3) Logger Pro – sensors 4) Games and Group work […]
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
I just came back from attending the NARST Conference in Chicago. It was a great opportunity for me to see what is going on in the world of research on science education. Out of all the talks, I found the plenaries the most interesting. The first one was by Linda Rosen from the organization […]
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Friday, March 13th, 2015
As graduate students participating in my online MET course “Mathematics and science teaching and learning with technology” finishing their projects, I would like to post the links to their projects, so other educators can benefit from them. I am always amazed and positively surprised by the outcomes of this international collaboration between inspiring and knowledgeable […]
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Sunday, February 8th, 2015
Yesterday I had an opportunity to watch a movie “The Imitation Game”. On first glance, the movie is about Alan Turing and how he and a team of brilliant young people were able to crack the Enigma code during WWII. However, it is only an overall impression. While it is obviously a Hollywood movie and […]
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Friday, January 2nd, 2015
I am attending AAPT Winter Meeting this week. I am presenting two talks. One is an invited talk: AAPT_W2015_ReimaginngBestPractices_Milner-Bolotin In my talk I will be discussing the idea of Technology-Enhance Deliberate Pedagogical Thinking in Physics Teacher education. My goal is to help physics teacher-candidates learn to use technology as a tool to achieve a bigger pedagogical purpose […]
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Sunday, December 28th, 2014
In three weeks (on January 21st) I will be speaking at Nerd Nite Vancouver event: http://vancouver.nerdnite.com/. In 15 minutes I will have an opportunity to share with the audience ( I think these are people who might not be scientists but who are interested in t) how I see the future of education and how […]
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