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Archive for the 'Teacher Education' Category

Teaching in BJ: Week 1 Impressions

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 […]

Getting ready for Beijing

Tuesday, May 5th, 2015

I am honoured to be invited to teach a special two-week professional development course for mathematics and science educators in China (Chaoyang School District in Beijing). I am looking forward to it as I am sure I will learn a lot from our Chinese colleagues. It is going to be my second visit to Beijing […]

Research study on STEM Educators’ attitudes about technology

Wednesday, April 29th, 2015

My colleague, Dr. Jungsook Oh and I are collaborating on a research study investigating the mathematics and science educators’ attitudes about technology. In order to collect the date we had to learn about some new (for us) technology as well: a new UBC survey tool – a modern version of SurveyMonkey called SurveyFluid. It is […]

Research Presentation at Aarhus University

Monday, March 30th, 2015

I had been very fortunate to present my work at Aarhus University in Denmark. I spoke about the use of technology in physics teacher education. However the most interesting and inspiring part of my visit was meeting local physics teacher-candidates and seeing how much we (physics teacher educators) have in common. For example, it was […]

Student Work in an Online MET STEM Course

Friday, March 13th, 2015

As I discussed earlier, this year I am teaching (for the second time,a s the previous time was in 2013) an online course on Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning with Technology. I say the second time, because the first time I taught the course I was teaching the old version, designed by another person. […]

The Imitation Game and Reflection on Teaching…

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 […]

AAPT Winter Meeting San Diego, CA

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 […]

Nerd Nite Vancouver

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 […]

Educational Technology Conference in Technion, Israel

Sunday, December 28th, 2014

I  had a very special opportunity to take part in an Educational Technology Conference organized at Technion by Professor Orit Hazzan and her colleagues this December. The conference focused on various uses of technology in STEM and engaging students in STEM learning both Face to Face and onlne. It also discussed STEM teacher education at Technion: […]

Teaching Online: Stories from Within

Friday, November 28th, 2014

A new Canadian book on online education has been published recently. It is an edited book and I have a chapter in it. My chapter deals with online graduate education. I hope it will be of interest to colleague who teach online or who are considering to do so. Chapter: M. Milner-Bolotin, In Teaching Online: […]

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