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Just published – IGI chapter

Dayan, E., Gadot, R., & Tsybulsky, D. (2023). The role of digital curation in science teacher professional development. In J. Trumble, S. Asim, J. Ellis, & D. Slykhuis (Eds.), Theoretical and Practical Teaching Strategies for K-12 Science Education in the Digital Age (pp. 172-193). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5585-2.ch010

Just published – Teaching and Teacher Education

Tsybulsky, D. & Muchnik-Rozanov, Y. (2023). The contribution of a project-based learning course, designed as a pedagogy of practice, to the development of preservice teachers’ professional identity. Teaching and Teacher Education, 124, 104020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104020

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Congratulations to Anna Pshenichny-Mamo on winning the ESERA travel grant for early career researchers

Congratulations to Anna Pshenichny-Mamo on winning the ESERA travel grant for early career researchers (2022).

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Congratulations to Efrat Dayan on winning the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Excellence certificate for Ph.D. Students

Congratulations to Efrat Dayan on winning the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Excellence certificate for Ph.D. Students (2022).

Annual Biology Teachers Conference 2022

We are happy to announce the Annual Biology Teachers Conference 2022 entitled ‘Biologists’ Discourse #15′

Please find below the link to the conference website:

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Poster presentation – Graduate Student Poster Competition, Technion

Congratulations to Efrat Dayan for winning the 3rd place Faculty Poster Competition!!

Dayan, E. & Tsybulsky, D. Designing socio-scientific issues’ teaching: Models for implementing digital curation in science education. Student Poster Competition. Technion, Israel, December 2022. Poster presentation. PDF

Paper presentation – ICOTS conference

Dvir, M. & Tsybulsky, D. Re-design technology-enhanced learning trajectories to concurrently nurture young students’ statistical, scientific and nature of science reasoning. ICOTS Conference. Rosario, Argentina, September 2022. Oral presentation. Abstract. PPT.

Paper presentation – ERIDOB 2022

Pshenichny-Mamo, A. & Tsybulsky, D. Enlightening our visitors: Natural history museum educators’ conceptualize the integration of NOS when addressing ecological and evolutionary aspects of exhibits. ERIDOB2022 Annual Conference. Nicosia, Cyprus, September 2022. Oral presentation. PPT. Abstract.

Research Grant Awarded – Israeli Science Foundation (ISF)

2022-2026 – ‘Integration between non-formal statistics thinking, scientific reasoning and nature of science understanding in a citizen science project’. Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) Research Grant (No. 1345/22).

PIs: Tsybulsky, D. , Ben Zvi, D.

The research is conducted within TCSS Center by a joint team: Keren Aridor, Michal Dvir, and Haya Ben Simon.

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Paper presentation – The 6th Conference of the Learning Sciences in Israel

Dvir, M. & Tsybulsky, D. Triple authenticity as a means to concurrently introduce novices to the disciplinary cultures of science and statistics. The 6th Conference of the Learning Sciences in Israel. Ben-Gurion University, Israel, July 2022. Oral presentation. PDF. PPT.