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Electric Vocabulary
By Harish Appana Satya on July 31, 2012
As we continue discussing the idea of a flipped classroom, we keep thinking of useful resources that the students can use outside of the classroom. As vocabulary is often a very important part of a science lesson, I thought that this TED Ed lesson about electric vocabulary might be of interest to science teachers.
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ClassAction: Amazing resource for astronomy teaching
By Harish Appana Satya on July 30, 2012
During the past few days I have been attending the Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers. The conference is taking place at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Today, Kevin Lee from the University of Nebraska Lincoln received a very prestigious AAPT award for Undergraduate teaching: Holiday Resnick award for excellence in […]
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Monty Hall Problem in a Clicker Classroom
By Harish Appana Satya on July 24, 2012
When I introduce electronic response systems (clickers) to teachers I often use my favourite problem: The Monty Hall Problem. This is a famous problem on probability that is easy to explain, yet its solution appears to be counter-intuitive (at a first glance). If you have never heard of this problem, watch the beginning of the […]
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Have you flipped your classroom?
By Harish Appana Satya on July 24, 2012
I have been in school for… forever. At first I was a student, then a teacher, then a teacher of teachers… I cannot even count how many hours I have spent in the classroom as a student listening to a teacher retelling me the information from the textbook, instead of answering our questions or challenging […]
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TEDED: Lessons Worh Sharing
By Harish Appana Satya on July 21, 2012
As I am thinking of how to use modern technology in order to change how mathematics and science are taught and learned by our students, I realize that sometimes, we just need to take a quick look to see how collaboration of educators all around the world opens new opportunities. As we are working on […]
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MSTLTT Site Presentation
By Harish Appana Satya on July 19, 2012
Today Harish, Jeremy and Kevin presented our project to graduate students (mathematics and science teachers) in one of the graduate courses at the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education.
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Welcome to Mathematics & Science Teaching & Learning through Technology Database
By Harish Appana Satya on July 16, 2012
If you are a K-12 mathematics or science teacher, a student or a parent, a teacher educator or a future teacher, this web site is designed for you! We are a an international team of mathematics and science educators (K-12 teachers and faculty members), graduate and undergraduate students from the University of British Columbia in […]
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