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RE: women in science

2012-02-25T15:34:36Z

Peter Zwaveg:

And I forgot to say yesterday that a Pathway workshop has been planned in my country.

I encourage teachers in this community to check whether there is any Pathway workshop to which they may participate. They look very promising

Good to knwo! I shall try to find out and participate in those seminars or workshops, I'm quite interested in IBSME

RE: Role models

2012-02-25T15:33:18Z

Elizabeth Prune:

Beata Jarosievitz Dr:

Teachers are also models
Beata

Sure! In my area we are trying to convince retired teachers (rather, selected retired teachers) to come and visit the school and talk to the students about that issue

I have started this project. I t turns out that retired high school teachers are quite willing to participate in out of school activites, and even in coaching younger colleagues, I'll let you know about the future developments of my plans!

RE: school collaboration projects

2012-02-25T15:31:43Z

Carlos Cunha:

Hello Valeria

Very interesting link.

Let me suggest:

http://www.etwinning.net/pt/pub/index.htm

You can chose the language. A lot of interesting european projects.

Carlos Cunha

Quite interesting, Carlos, I was not aware of that project

RE: Inquiry Based Science and Mathematics Education

2012-02-15T19:21:25Z

Peter Zwaveg:

Hello, Ivan
I have used Geogebra only a bit. But I have more experience with Modellus, it can be useful for IBSME both the Maths and in Physics. One can model physical processes inmaqthematical terms.

Best regards!
Peter

I agree with Peter, I have used Modellus a bit and find it quite amazing. I even found many examples n internet which i could use directly.

RE: Communities of Practice

2012-02-15T19:19:26Z

valeria manna:

Oh thanks Albert

It's really useful.
I found this definition in the ppt and I like very much the word passion. I think it is the most important word in the field of education and teaching

CoP definition
“Groups… who share a concern, or a passion about a topic…who deepen their knowledge and expertise by interacting on an ongoing basis (Wenger et al, 2002 )

I agree, Valeria, that definition fits perfectly to our teachers' community

RE: Role models

2012-02-15T19:16:37Z

Beata Jarosievitz Dr:

Teachers are also models
Beata

Sure! In my area we are trying to convince retired teachers (rather, selected retired teachers) to come and visit the school and talk to the students about that issue

RE: Assessment

2012-02-07T21:43:30Z

Tsetsa Tsolova Hristova:

I use moodle system in my school, but mainly for self-tests, periodically change issues. In our country not yet adopted online exam in high school ... We are in the process of organizing e-learning for secondary school. I have noticed a great interest of the good students to additional online training. Students interested in modeling processes used by Inspire teachers project and Phet, and other materials posted on Scientix platform. I have several of their presentations on astronomy software SalsaJ. I consider that the new methods to retain the interest of students to study science. Of course, the motivation must also be adequately resourced, but unfortunately this is still no political will.

Hi Tsetsa

I find your detailed information VERY interesting. We are starting to use the Moodle platform in our school and find it fascinating. I shall attempt to use some of the applications that you mention!!

RE: Communities of Practice

2012-02-07T21:39:28Z

valeria manna:

Hi Albert

thanks a lot for your link. I think Spanish colleagues will be interested in reading it.

Hi Valeria

I just read the book chapter on Digital Habitats in this link, I believe it is very appropriate for Communities of Practica like this one

http://technologyforcommunities.com/

RE: Subject not listed: Request it here

2012-01-16T19:53:44Z

Dora Metow:

Now that Astronomy is in, it would be good to hear about participants in the ITEMS project, I read somewhere that Astronomy was one of the main topics thay worked with.

Hi Dora, I did not take part but have read this report

Report: Teacher Training activities based on the Astronomy modul
http://itemspro.net/adocs/Deliverables/disseminationWP/astronomydiss.pdf

and ione can also visit the Moodle classroom: http://itemspro.net/moodle/

RE: project not listed: request a category here!

2012-01-16T19:48:47Z

Elizabeth Prune:

Paul Gerhard:

We will be happy to add any projects in the list so that you may start sharing your experience and discuss about innovative actions in your country with other Scientix users. Simply request it by replying this thread or email the Scientix web editor

Hi Paul,
I'd like to suggest a new thread: TOPICS IN SCIENCE RESEARCH EDUCATION. We could include here questions like the good old friend "students misconceptions", new research areas like "Arguing in the Science classroom", etc.

And I have also become recently aware of the folowing current research lines among educational researchers:

- Critical thinking, how to do research and evaluate competencies in STM classrooms
- What is the relationship among scientific competencies and the other skills a student must have and develop?
- Learn to read (and write) critically scientific texts

RE: IBSME and ICT

2012-01-16T19:43:14Z

Marie Le Boniec:

Dear Peter,

Yes indeed the Teach.us project terminated recently, however the community will remain active and the discussions ongoing.
I advice you to look for content and examples of web 2.0 tools in the section "Practices" of the website - see http://www.teachus.eu/practices

You can also listen to the recorded websinars on the use of Sloodle, Titter and games in education, and much more : ) - see http://www.teachus.eu/webinars

Kind regards,
Marie

Thanks a lot for the information, Marie, the links you provided are VERY interesting and useful for of us those who wish to use web 2 tools in teaching!

RE: IBSME and ICT

2012-01-15T21:01:40Z

My favourite links and those of my colleagues in other science areas are most of the links offered in the Inspire project. The web page is
http://inspire.eun.org and there is information in various languages.

Apart from that, I like to start a wiki with my students, in some projects.

RE: project not listed: request a category here!

2012-01-15T20:55:03Z

Paul Gerhard:

RE: Assessment

2012-01-15T20:50:55Z

Ivan De Winne:

what about the use of (graphic) calculators during exams?

I think in Portugal they introduced in National tests questions using Graphics calculators and that way they achieved that in high school teachers started using these calculators. I wonder whether that is still true nowadays? Does it also happen in other countries?

RE: school collaboration projects

2012-01-10T20:49:41Z

Carlos Cunha:

Hello Valeria

Very interesting link.

Let me suggest:

http://www.etwinning.net/pt/pub/index.htm

You can chose the language. A lot of interesting european projects.

Carlos Cunha

Thank you both! Perhaps someone would be kind enough to post here an address for all open EU projects where STM teachers might participate???

IBSME and ICT

2012-01-10T20:45:30Z

I am brand new here but I cannot find a discussion on Inquiry based methods that emply ICT tools, specially web 2.0 tools. Is there?

RE: Role models

2012-01-10T20:44:04Z

Sure, Nobel prizes are an excellent place to start and discuss why historically many women were left aside when the prize was given to a tema where they participted. There are a nnumber of cases in Physics, Maths, Medicine, etc.