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ED-MEDIA 2010: Digital Technology & Educational Reform

30/06/2010 - 09:00

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On Wednesday, June 30 2010, I presented a paper titled The Challenge of Digital Technologies to Educational Reform. The abstract to the paper follows:
Although educational reform efforts have failed repeatedly over the last 40 years, this paper posits that the cultural revolution currently underway as a result of the widespread use of digital technologies will [...]

Canadian Association of Physicists’ Congress 2010

08/06/2010 - 21:03

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I was pleased to attend the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Physicsits.
The title of my talk was “Constructing Knowledge about Teaching and Learning Physics.”
Click here to download the PowerPoint presentation.
My thanks to all who attended.

Problem Solving in the Physics Classroom (OAPT 2010)

30/04/2010 - 10:45

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On Friday, April 30 2010, I presented an invited workshop entitled Problem Solving in the Physics Classroom at the annual meeting of the Ontario Association of Physics Teachers. The abstract to the session follows:
As physics teachers, we can readily agree that our students should be able to solve challenging and meaningful physics problems. At [...]

National Association for Research in Science Teaching 2010

01/04/2010 - 17:15

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On Monday, March 22, 2010, I presented a paper titled Beyond “repeating the textbook” and “problem-solving”: Teacher candidates talk about learning to teach physics. The abstract to the paper follows:
The way that science teachers learn to teach is profoundly influenced by the effects of what Lortie (1975) called the “apprenticeship of observation.” Teacher candidates’ long [...]

EILab Chairs Symposium at Ed-Media 2010 in Toronto

11/12/2009 - 17:02

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The Educational Informatics (EI) Lab at UOIT, of which I am a member, would like to invite you to a pre-conference symposium at Ed-Media 2010.
Program description:
“The increasingly symbiotic relationship between society and digital technology suggests that studying one is impossible without studying the other. Technological innovations are fueled by a seemingly [...]

Third Working Conference on Teacher Education in Canada

08/11/2009 - 16:34

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I was pleased to attend the Third Annual Working Conference on Teacher Education in Canada. The theme for this year’s conference was Field Experiences in the Context of Reform of Canadian Teacher Education Programs. Tom Russell (Queen’s University) and I developed a paper entitled Does teacher education expect too much from field experience? in which [...]

Making Connections: Self-Study and Social Action

01/11/2009 - 10:55

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I am pleased to announce the publication of Making Connections: Self-Study and Social Action, edited by Kathleen Pithouse, Claudia Mitchell, and Relebohile Moletsane. My chapter is entitled “Becoming a Teacher Educator: The Self as a Basis-For-Knowing.”
The synopsis of the book from the publisher’s page reads as follows:
How might study of the self illuminate and inspire [...]

EDGE Conference 2009

16/10/2009 - 16:17

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The EDGE Conference 2009: Inspiration and Innovation in Teaching and Teacher Education was held in St. John’s, Newfoundland from October 14-16, 2009. I presented a selection of findings from my doctoral dissertation in a paper called Challenging the cultural routines of teaching and learning: Lessons from a physics methods course.
The abstract for the paper:
Teacher [...]

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