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Paper and poster presentations – ERIDOB2024

  1. Dayan, E., Haj, R. & Tsybulsky, D. Expanding horizons: Utilizing digital curation to foster student engagement with socio-scientific issues. ERIDOB2024. Lyon, France, July 2024. Oral presentation. PPT.
  2. Pshenichny-Mamo, A., Howard Hunter, R., Demarse, M. & Tsybulsky, D. Exploring pedagogical potential of climate change exhibits in natural history museums. ERIDOB2024. Lyon, France, July 2024. Poster presentation. PDF.

Closing Event of the Citizen Science Project at Carmel Zvulun School

The closing event for the Citizen Science project “Sleep” was held at Carmel Zvulun School on Monday, June 17th, from 9:00 to 11:00 AM.

The project was conducted on a large scale this year, in collaboration with the school’s principal, Mrs. Dorit Talmor-Sarig, the teacher, Mrs. Noy Abutbul, the project scientists, Prof. Tamar Shochat and Prof. Eran Tauber, the project leader, Mrs. Noam Malkinson, the research team led by Prof. Dina Tsybulsky from the Technion, and the links team led by Prof. Dani Ben-Zvi from the University of Haifa.

The collaboration aimed to:

  1. Study the phenomenon of sleep among teenagers using Citizen Science.
  2. Examine and characterize the interactions between scientific thinking, statistical thinking, and thinking about the nature of science within various types of data sets, including big data.

The students involved in the project visited the project scientists’ laboratories at the University of Haifa and the Future Learning Space Lab. They learned about the phenomenon of sleep, collected data using sleep diaries, and investigated the sleep patterns of teenagers using Excel and TinkerPlots, an interactive data exploration software. They practiced various data science methods, including data exploration, cleaning, preparation of data files, including big data, and modeling relationships using training, evaluation, and testing of different potential models.

During this process, the students discovered a surprising phenomenon regarding teenagers’ sleep habits, contributing valuable insights to scientific research in this area.

At the closing event, the students presented follow-up research they conducted independently on the sleep patterns of teenagers. These projects were based on the complete data set of the Sleep Project, collected over the years as part of the TCSS  Center at the school.

The students’ presentations at the event were outstanding! The event itself was emotional and significant. Thanks to all the staff and students!

 

 

Paper presentation – Chais2024 Annual Conference

Dagan, K. & Tsybulsky, D.  Experiences of remote teaching practice by female students in elementary science education from the perspective of pedagogical beliefs. The 19th Chais Conference on the Study of Innovation and Learning Technologies: Learning in the Digital Era. Ra’anana, Israel, June 2024. Oral presentation [In Hebrew]. PPT.

Welcome to the Start of the Spring Semester!

We are happy to start our undergraduate/graduate courses and professional development programs! Let’s embark on this journey together and make the most of the opportunities this spring semester has to offer. Welcome back, and here’s to a successful and enriching term ahead!

 

 

Paper presentations – NARST 2024

 

  1. Pshenichny-Mamo, A., Ben-Simon, H. & Tsybulsky, D. Pedagogy of practice approach to teaching nature of science to in-service teachers. NARST2024 Conference. Denver, Colorado, USA, March 2024. Oral presentation. Recorded presentation.
  2. Stern, G. & Tsybulsky, D. NARST2024 Conference. Harnessing digital curation for personalized science learning in secondary school. Denver, Colorado, USA, March 2024. Oral presentation. PPT.