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Saturday, August 18th, 2012
Recently I attended the Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers. I love summer meetings and I always come back inspired by what I saw. However, this time there were so many amazing things that I was almost overwhelmed. One of the highlights for me was a Millikan Lecture by Harvard Professor – […]
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Monday, August 6th, 2012
I just happened to stumble upon a web site that made me think about many of the questions we ask our students in our science courses. Doesn’t it remind you of some of the science questions you have been asked… I hope our Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning Through Technology project is going to […]
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Monday, August 6th, 2012
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Friday, August 3rd, 2012
Prof. Janis McKenna and a number of wonderful graduate students in physics have organized the Second Canadian Women in Physics Conference here at UBC. More than 100 women (and a few guys) attended it. What a fabulous event. I was especially happy that many young undergrad and grad students in physics could attend. I have […]
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
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Friday, July 20th, 2012
I just got this information today about a European video that aims to attract girl to science. They apparently invested considerable money into their campaign: Science, It’s a girl thing! When I watched this video, I couldn’t believe what I saw. I wonder what was the motivation behind this video? Did they want to make […]
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Monday, July 2nd, 2012
A few days ago I inadvertently allowed Google to install GooglePlus on my Galaxy tablet. As the installation has been completed, I realized that Google started forcing me to see the news and the links that it believed were important for me. This became an annoyance, as I didn’t noticing any of it before. However, […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
As I am preparing for teaching my summer course EDCP 585A_2012 Milner-Bolotin_June 28_2012 – Science and Mathematics Teaching and Learning through Technologies, I have a chance to rethink how technology has changed (or has not changed) how we learn mathematics and science. To help me rethink it, I decided to look at the history of […]
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
I have been extremely busy in the last few months. It felt as if we had conference after conference, teaching, workshops and presentations, as well as trying to do research and write grant applications… I hope I will have time to reflect, slow down a little bit now and pulling my life back together. Recently, […]
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Saturday, March 24th, 2012
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain_explanation.html[/ As a science educator, I am always concerned about how to convey to my students (most of whom have very little training in science and very large fear of science), what science is all about and what scientific method is. This is something that I believe will drive how they teach science… and how […]
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