A number of years ago I read a book by one of my favourite authors – Mitch Albom, “The Five People You Meet in Heaven”. One of the themes of this book is that some people we encounter in our… Read moreMentorship matters: In memory of Dr. Gordon Gore
This Friday, I was invited to take part in the BC Science Teachers’ Association Annual Conference, called Catalyst. This is an annual gathering of science teachers from all across British Columbia. Usually, most of the teachers come from the Lower… Read moreCATALYST 2020 BC Science Teachers Conference
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. (Ulysses, Lord Tennyson) Every year at the end of August many K-12 and post-secondary teachers like me feel excited and a little bit nervous. What will the next academic year… Read moreA New Challenge or a New Opportunity
To support our community during the pandemic, I was asked to give a free interactive lecture on online learning and homeschooling. I will be doing it on April 23, 2020. It will be an interactive seminar where I will show… Read moreOne Hour @ UBC
When I started teaching at UBC more than 10 years ago, I was asked to teach an online course to graduate students in our Masters in Education course. The course was focused on mathematics and science teaching. It was a… Read moreEducational Technologies in the Era of Pandemics: 10 easy lessons from an online educator
I am very excited to see our edited book coming out this fall! Two years ago we organized a collaborative workshop at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. We came together to discuss the changing field of STEM education… Read moreSTEM Teachers and Teaching in the Digital Era
I just returned from the STEM in Education 2019 Symposium that was held in Chongqing, China: http://stem2019.swu.edu.cn/English/ . Southwest University organized the symposium. It was a very interesting conference as we had a few opportunities to visit local schools, to… Read moreSTEM in Education 2019 Symposium Chongqing, China
In 2016-2017, we received a Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund grant that allowed us to explore how we can use educational videos to promote experimentation in physics teacher education and in physics education in general. This grant promoted us to… Read moreSlow-Motion Videos in Physics Teaching
While we naturally focus on the science and physics education communities in North America, there is a log going on in the field in Europe, Australia, Asia and South America. Last summer I was lucky to participate in GIREP 2019… Read moreGIREP Newsletter (European Physics Education Group)
My colleagues and I are proud to launch the second year of our M.Ed. in Science Education and the first year in the Mathematics Education Programs: [youtube]https://youtu.be/WdkUJkuTeXQ[/youtube]
