http://shawnbullock.ca/wordpress shawn@shawnbullock.ca Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:53:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ShawnMBullockPhdhttp://feedburner.google.com I am pleased to announce the publication of my article, Teaching 2.0: (Re)learning to teach online in the most recent issue of Interactive Technology and Smart Education. The purpose of the paper was to document and analyse the my first two years of developing a pedagogy that meaningfully incorporates ... http://shawnbullock.ca/wordpress/?p=179 I was pleased to present, with freshly-minted new physics teacher @nathanchow, a workshop at the annual meeting of the Ontario Association of Physics Teachers (OAPT). The abstract for the session: Digital technologies are an increasingly prevalent part of everyday life, particularly for secondary school students. Physics education has a long ... http://shawnbullock.ca/wordpress/?p=175 Shawn M. Bullock (UOIT), Judy Williams (Monash University), Jason K. Ritter (Duquesne University) The purpose of this session at the 2011 meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) is to present the findings of a review of the literature concerning becoming a teacher educator and to obtain feedback on these ... http://shawnbullock.ca/wordpress/?p=156 A paper presented by Doug Hayhoe, Katharine Hayhoe, and I at the 2010 meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The abstract follows: A Kaleidoscope of Understanding: Pre-service Elementary Teachers’ Knowledge of Climate Change Concepts and Impacts D. Hayhoe1; S. Bullock2; K. Hayhoe3 1. Education, Tyndale University College, Toronto, ON, Canada. 2. ... http://shawnbullock.ca/wordpress/?p=147 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 ... http://shawnbullock.ca/wordpress/?p=132 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. http://shawnbullock.ca/wordpress/?p=126 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 ... http://shawnbullock.ca/wordpress/?p=119 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 ... http://shawnbullock.ca/wordpress/?p=107 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 ... http://shawnbullock.ca/wordpress/?p=68 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 ... http://shawnbullock.ca/wordpress/?p=50