Archive for the 'Technology and learning' Category
Monday, November 11th, 2024
FREE Online Workshop for Parents Title: AI and Your Child’s Future: Smart Strategies for Academic Success Presenter: Prof. Marina Milner-Bolotin marina.milner-bolotin@ubc.ca Discover how AI can support your child’s education! This interactive workshop is designed for parents of middle and high school students to explore how AI tools can enhance learning, provide personalized support, and simplify […]
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Sunday, March 10th, 2024
Every year, early March I have an opportunity to write about the the event that is very near and dear to my heart – the UBC Physics Olympics . This allows me to share how much pride I feel for BC physics teachers who inspire their teams to participate in the event and who spend […]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
As the winter 2022-2023 term is coming to an end, it gives me an opportunity to think about how we have been using smartphones in my physics classrooms in the last few years. While the original goal was to engage students, especially when we had to teach fully online, as our experience grew, we were […]
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Thursday, May 5th, 2022
This year I was invited to be one of the judges of the International LUMA StarT competition. This is a large international competition organized by my colleagues at the University of Helsinki in Finland. StarT competition invites educators and students from all around the world to present and share exciting ideas about teaching and learning […]
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
As another year amidst this pandemic is coming to an end, it is an opportunity to reflect of what has happened and most importantly what we have learned from it. While not surprisingly we hear lots of voices on the negative effects of the pandemic on learning, I would like to ask myself the following […]
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Sunday, March 7th, 2021
On Saturday, March 6th, we held 41 1/2 UBC Physics Olympics. This was a completely virtual event and since we have never done it before, we were not sure how it will go. I am so glad to share that the event was a huge success. It was a collaboration of the UBC Department of […]
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
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 lives make a profound impact on us independently if we realized that at the time […]
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Sunday, October 25th, 2020
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 Mainland as the conference often happens here. However, this year it was an online conference […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
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 bring us? Who will come to our classrooms? What interesting novel activities and experiments will […]
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Friday, April 10th, 2020
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 the community how they can use existing online resources to support their children. Please notice, […]
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