Step Outside Your Sensory Comfort Zone and Communicate!
Come and practice concise communication skills by engaging in hands-on activities through the use of senses other than vision. Connection will be made to the importance of such skills for teaching students with visual impairments but is applicable to anyone wanting to practice their power of explanation.
TEDxUBC, Fast Forward Ed
Fast Forward Ed – Live TEDTalks & videos on the challenges of matching skills needed with skills taught facing academia and industry. Leading thinkers and doers will discover ideas worth spreading on the future of education. Technology. Entertainment. Design.
Faculty of Education Family Science Day
Science and Mathematics Educators and students from the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Teacher Education Program and the larger Faculty of Education community at UBC invite guests from 5 to 105 years old to help us celebrate science and mathematics learning at UBC Faculty of Education through active participation in exciting hands-on and minds-on science and mathematics activities suitable for all those with curious and inquiring minds. Parents, children and teachers are welcome to attend! The event is FREE of charge.
Event Schedule:
11:00 am – 12:15 pm – “Science&Math in a Bag” stations: hands-on science & math activities
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm – Science demonstration show in Scarfe 100
RSVP: The event is FREE of charge, but we ask you to RSVP to Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin at: marina.milner-bolotin@ubc.ca indicating how many people are going to attend.
Humanitarian Aid in Africa: A Question of Sustainability
In this iTalk, workshop participants will examine the ways in which humanitarian aid shapes a community’s social, political and economic dynamics. We will especially consider the role of long-term relationships between aid providers and a community in beneficial projects.
Grad Dine and Dialogue: The Whys and Wherefores of Statistics
Wondering how to approach the statistical analysis of your research data? Not sure what help is available? Doubtful about whether you could ever learn to love stats? Join the conversation with Dr. Petkau, and get your questions answered.
Grad Dine and Dialogue: Leader’s Dialogue
This event is one in the series of conversations hosted by Dr. Porter. UBC leaders are invited for “fireside chats” in which a variety of contemporary topics are explored. Graduate Students are invited to respond to the issues by joining the conversation.
Building and Strengthening Community Service Learning Partnerships
This event, sponsored by the UBC-Community Learning Initiative, brings current and prospective faculty and community partners together to share Community Service Learning experiences, lessons learned, and successful strategies to strengthen networks and enhance capacity.
Edutechnology: What happens when Education and Technology meet in Real Time?
The roundtable discussion will offer an opportunity to students, instructors and anyone involved in learning and teaching to exchange and share ideas and suggestion around designing “virtual classrooms” that happens in real time and with distributed students across the province or wider.
Grad Dine and Dialogue: The Three-Minute Thesis
Be present at the launch of 3MT at UBC. The 3MT has crossed the Pacific from Australian universities who have embraced the challenges and benefits of this competion. Graduate researchers are invited to explain their studies to a lay audience in just three minutes. Find out how to become a 3MT champion!
Grad Dine and Dialogue: Becoming a Mentor
A seminar to help Graduate Students find out about opportunities to become mentors in the UBC community and beyond. Learn about the skills and abilities required to be a successful mentor, and hear about examples of mentoring programs that are seeking out Graduate Students.