Archive for the 'Teacher Education' Category
Thursday, February 21st, 2019
I am very fortunate to be teaching an online course that explores modern educational technologies and their influence on learning. The most exciting thing about the course for me is not that I am teaching it, but I am learning with my students. They are experienced mathematics and science educators who know so much and […]
Filed under: General, General teaching, Personal, Science and society, Science Education, Science in everyday life, Teacher Education | | Comments Off on Juvenoia
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
I am currently teaching an online graduate course on creative use of technology in mathematics and science education. However, as we discussing technology use and mathematics and science teaching and learning and in teacher education, we inevitably come back to these questions: What does it mean to KNOW? What SHOULD our students know? WHY should […]
Filed under: General, General teaching, Outreach, Personal, Science and society, Teacher Education | | Comments Off on Five Minute University
Monday, January 21st, 2019
Last week while preparing myself for writing a research paper, I was reading about the invention of logarithms by John Napier of Merchiston (1550-1617). The story of logarithms is a fascinating story connecting mathematics, science, and our everyday life. You can find a lot of information about it online, including many excellent videos, books, and […]
Filed under: General, General teaching, Personal, Physics Education, Science and society, Science Education, Science in everyday life, Teacher Education, Technology and learning | | Comments Off on Logarithms, lunar eclipses, and learning
Saturday, December 8th, 2018
As I am saying good-bye to my students, who will soon be going on a physics teaching practicum in local schools, I keep recalling how I started physics teaching almost 30 years ago. It was not easy, considering I also had to do it in a foreign language (Hebrew) and in a school that had […]
Filed under: General, General teaching, Teacher Education | | Comments Off on Final Thoughts: Winter I 2018
Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
I am very fortunate to be able to attend the STEM in Education 2018 conference organized by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. I am a Co-Chair of the 2020 STEM in Education Conference that will take place at UBC in 2020. This conference was one of the best I have attended […]
Filed under: Conferences, General, General teaching, Interactivity in the classroom, Mathematics education, Outreach, Personal, Science and society, Science Education, Science in everyday life, Teacher Education | | Comments Off on 2018 STEM in Education Conference in Brisbane
Sunday, November 4th, 2018
For more photos click here. On Saturday, November 3rd, 2018, we had an amazing 8th Family Math and Science Day. My Mathematics Education colleague Dr. Cynthia Nicol and founded the event in 2010 and it is going strong!Despite the weather, we had almost 400 guests, more than 130 volunteers and lots and lots of fun. This […]
Filed under: General, General teaching, Outreach, Personal, Physics Education, Science and society, Science Education, Teacher Education, Technology and learning | | Comments Off on 8th Family Mathematics and Science Day
Friday, September 21st, 2018
As we are celebrating the first day of the fall and are wondering what the winter has in store for us, I cannot think of a better science connection to the inevitable change of seasons than a very famous study by Philip Sadler – A Private Universe. I use it in my undergraduate and graduate […]
Filed under: General, General teaching, Science Education, Science in everyday life, Teacher Education | | Comments Off on Fall Welcome
Friday, August 31st, 2018
As I am writing my last blog post this summer, I have noticed a number of new posts online on the “stop-homework-before-it-stops-us” movement. The movement, or at least the way I understood it, aims to abolish homework in our schools as it has very low value (if not a negative value) in the eyes of […]
Filed under: General, General teaching, Science in everyday life, Teacher Education, Uncategorized | | Comments Off on New Year and the Homework Battles
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018
When I watched this video (in Hebrew), I knew that I had to make sure that my students – future physics teachers can watch it as well. This motivated me to contact an Israeli physics teacher – Dr. Ilya Mazin and ask him if it would be OK for me to translate it into English. […]
Filed under: General, General teaching, Physics Education, Science and society, Science Education, Science in everyday life, Teacher Education | | Comments Off on On Physics Teaching, Learning and Making a Difference
Tuesday, August 21st, 2018
For most of us, new year resolutions are associated with the “unrealistically” high expectations and activities we will fail to keep up with by the third week of January. Lose 20 lbs by the end of the first week of January, cook from scratch each and every meal and only eat healthy, wake up at […]
Filed under: General, General teaching, Personal, Science Education, Teacher Education | | Comments Off on On New Academic Year Resolutions