The Vantaa Nature School is administrated by Vantaan ympäristöyhdistys, the environmental association of Vantaa, and financed by the board of education of the city of Vantaa. Established in 1991, the Vantaa Nature School was the first Finnish speaking Nature School in the country. It is situated about 20 km...
Image: Shutterstock/Viktoria-Kazakova The school year is here again and I would like to introduce everybody who will read this blog to the outstanding tradition of Latvian teachers – to learn from each other. Hopefully this experience will be, at least, interesting or maybe even useful for colleagues in other...
Image: Shutterstock/Sergey_Nivens Teaching primary maths should not be bound to any textbook, physical classroom, nor to any single specific learning outcome as set in our curricula. Maths is a term that opens the gate to a richness of opportunities to investigate skills and concepts in a much wider context,...
Image: Shutterstock/Macrovector Introduction We live in an era characterized by the rapid development of technology. Computer science has invaded the educational process and is providing us with many opportunities to exploit. An additional challenge faced by STEM educators has been the integration of Inquiry Based Science Learning (IBSL) in...
Image: Shutterstock/Michele Paccione Review of the conference “Ada trifft … MINT – Genderdidaktik in der Praxis” (“Ada meets … STEM – gender didactic in practice) of the “Ada Lovelace project” in June 2015 in Mainz at the Johannes Gutenberg university (Germany) Important results Since many years ago, we know...
Image: Shutterstock/Tyler Olson Let’s start from the beginning. How many times have we heard from our students the question: “Why do we have to study this?” As opposite to the (unfortunately, so common!) perception of Maths as being an abstract, mechanic, repetitive and boring subject, the kind of un-escapable every-day ordeal, by means of creative...
The teaching of Science is in crisis- is stated several times by several people. The EU and the US are starting project after project to solve the problem, the programs (like the ones collected on the Scientix portal) mostly try to popularize the study of Science and scientific careers,...
Image: Shutterstock/VLADGRIN The students have changed. We can hear this from the teachers and parents as well and some researcher are enforce this statement with generation theory. But if we look carefully we can find several signs which make the picture more complex than generation separated by solid walls....
Image: Algodoo Algodoo is a 2D physics engine for iPads and computers. It´s created by a Swede named Emil Ernerfeldt. With Algodoo you can let your creativity flow! When I first saw Algodoo a couple of years ago it looked promising and useful but I didn´t really understand how...