Astronomy Labs

September 30, 2021 Peter Newbury Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

When I worked as a Science Education Specialist in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UBC with the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative, I had the opportunity to create lab activities for the survey astronomy courses (aka “Astro 101”). These are courses aimed at students outside the Faculty of Science who need some science…Continue reading →

Building a Culture of Integrity, Part 3: What are the ways?

August 27, 2021 Peter Newbury Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

Over the last 9 months, I’ve had the privilege of working with a group of dedicated educators in the Dalhousie Faculty of Engineering to explore building a culture of integrity. In Part 1, I describe our faculty learning community where we read James Lang’s Cheating Lessons together. Part 2 is about a survey we ran…Continue reading →

Building a Culture of Integrity, Part 2: What we learned from students

August 26, 2021 Peter Newbury Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

Over the last 9 months, I’ve had the privilege of working with a group of dedicated educators in the Dalhousie Faculty of Engineering to explore building a culture of integrity. InÂ Part 1, I describe our faculty learning community where we read James Langâ€™sÂ Cheating LessonsÂ together. Part 2 is about a survey we ran with Engineering students…Continue reading →

Building a Culture of Integrity, Part 1: â€œCheating Lessonsâ€ book club

August 25, 2021 Peter Newbury Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

Over the last 9 months, I’ve had the privilege of working with a group of dedicated educators in the Dalhousie Faculty of Engineering to explore building a culture of integrity. In this, the first of three posts about our work and its outcomes, I’ll describe our faculty learning community. Part 2 is about a survey…Continue reading →

Anti-Racism in STEMM

July 22, 2021 Peter Newbury Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

I learned a lot from reading Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist“. There were times, though, when I wasn’t able to transfer those ideas and actions into the environment and culture of university and higher education. This new paper, “Responses to 10 common criticisms of anti-racism action in STEMM” (15 July 2021) carefully…Continue reading →

Active Learning and Antiracism

May 10, 2021 Peter Newbury Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

I’m reading “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi. This blog post is a thread I posted on Twitter. Clicking on any of the tweets will open the thread in Twitter where you can more easily follow links, react, and respond. 1/ I’m a third of the way through “How to be an…Continue reading →

Foundations of Teaching and Learning Part 5: Outcomes

March 28, 2021 Peter Newbury Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

In collaboration with colleagues at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus, I designed and facilitated, again and again, a series of discipline-specific workshops called “Foundations of Teaching and Learning in X” where X is Health and Exercise Sciences, Digital Literacy, Nursing, Engineering, and others. In this series of blog posts, I describe the motivation,…Continue reading →