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  • Thursday, January 14, 2016 2:08 PM | Deleted user

    Develop your capacity for improving Teaching & Learning, Curriculum & Theory, and Pedagogical Practice.

    Focusing on the study of education and learning that occurs in informal learning contexts such as museums, the program draws together Museum professionals, educators and those with an interest in using the community to support teaching and learning to further their thinking and scholarship around museums as sites of education and learning.

    THE PROGRAM

    The Master of Museum Education is a unique graduate degree program focusing on the study of education and learning that occurs in museums and other informal learning contexts. This program draws together Museum professionals, educators and those with an interest in using the community to support teaching and learning to further their thinking and scholarship around museums as sites of education and learning.

    This program will provide the necessary skills and knowledge for careers as educators in informal settings such as museums, locally and globally, and to support classroom-based teachers in expanding their use of the community as a learning site. The program model is one that recognizes the need for contextualizing museum education curriculum in both home country context (which has its own unique social and political context) and in the Canadian cultural context of museum education, in which practices may be conceptualized in other beneficial ways to that of the student¹s own country of origin. The end result are graduating students that are then better able to influence the systems in their own countries with strengthened capacities to introduce beneficial reforms around museum education.

    APPLICATION DEADLINE

    March 1, 2016

    LEARN MORE

    Visit pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MED4 to learn more, or contact Yvette Kharoubeh at yvette.kharoubeh@ubc.ca with your questions.

  • Thursday, January 07, 2016 2:57 PM | Deleted user


    Are you coming to CASC 2016 in Vancouver?  

    Do you have an awesome new demonstration or innovative twist on a classic that you would love to share in a relaxed and fun environment?   

    If you have a 4-8 minute demonstration and are interested in being part of the 2016 CASC Demo hour please contact Brian Anderson at banderson@scienceworld.ca or Michael Edwards at michael.edwards@scienceeast.nb.ca by March 15, 2016 with details of what you are interested in presenting and any special AV or safety requirements.



  • Monday, December 07, 2015 1:19 PM | Deleted user

    STEM Magazine Canada is requesting article content. 

    Please submit the following information to info@casc-accs.com

    - Word.doc format / no word limit.
    - Please give requested author credit
    - Artwork or photos: 300 dpi, JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS

    We are sure that you have valuable insights that will inspire both educators and students.


  • Friday, November 06, 2015 12:44 PM | Deleted user

    Submission Deadline: November 27th, 2015 

    We invite you to join us at the 2016 Canadian Association of Science Centres (CASC) Annual Conference in Vancouver. 

    CASC’s 14th Annual Conference is expected to welcome 150 delegates from across our country. This three-day conference, co-hosted by the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre, Science World BC and the HR MacMillan Space Centre, features pre-conference activities, engaging learning sessions, keynote speakers, and events that include a welcome reception, a tradeshow and our national awards gala. 

    Opportunities to network with your Canadian peers will be offered throughout the program. This year’s CASC conference theme, The Intersection of Science & Nature – learn more, care more, do more - is an opportunity for delegates to explore challenging questions and work creatively together so that positive change can have a lasting effect on policy, practice and ultimately, sustainability. The goals of the conference are to inspire, to build capacity and to foster collaboration. 

    We need you. With your experience and expertise we can jointly develop an innovative conference experience.

    Send all completed Session Proposals to: info@casc-accs.com

    Download conference session RFP


  • Friday, October 23, 2015 3:43 PM | Deleted user

    In collaboration with CASC and CAZA, the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre is offering the Online Artic Marine Life course.

    Begins October 28, 2015

    Explore the marine biodiversity of the Canadian Arctic!

    Intended for all ages, participants will learn about Arctic marine life, from plankton to narwhals, with the scientists and experts that work there. Presentations can be viewed in person or online, live or when it’s convenient.

    Get certified!

    Any participants wishing to get a certificate from the course or attend events in person can register.

    For more information: vanaqua.org/arctic-marine-life-course

    Download flyer


     

  • Wednesday, October 07, 2015 1:01 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    On behalf of the board and members of the Canadian Association of Science Centres, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Canadian scientist Dr. Arthur B. McDonald for receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics on October 6, 2015.  Dr. McDonald shares this year’s prize with Dr. Takaaki Kajita for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass. 

    Neutrinos are one of the most important building blocks of the universe and critical to our understanding of the universe. The question of whether or not neutrinos have mass has been debated among physicists for decades.  This discovery required a change in basic understanding of physics. 

    Dr. McDonald is the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNOLab) located in Sudbury, Ontario, which is featured in an exhibit at Science North.

  • Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:27 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    I recently had the pleasure of visiting Saskatoon to attend the 2nd International STEMFest.  There were several highlights in the program, including a Skype presentation by Professor Tony Wagner, Expert in Residence at Harvard University Innovation Lab.  He talked about the need to teach kids to be innovative in the classroom.  His entire talk was filled with Twitter-able quotes, which made it difficult to listen and tweet at the same time!  I finally resorted to old-school pen and paper so I wouldn’t miss any of his wisdom.

    Now as I review my notes, I am struck again by how science centres fit the bill when it comes to teaching innovation.  Tony talked about the need for unstructured play at all ages.  He said the purpose of school is no longer about knowledge and content as this information is readily available on the Internet.  Rather, we need to provide opportunities for students to use their natural curiosity to find out what works.  They need to try things and see what fails so that they can use what they learned to improve.  Another piece of wisdom that resonated with me is that “Innovation is a team sport and isolation is the enemy of innovation.”   

    Later that morning, I watched groups of secondary school students at the Saskatchewan Science Centre booth in the exhibit hall do exactly that.  They used straws, masking tape and cotton balls to build towers.  With no other incentive than bragging rights, they formed their own groups and worked furiously to build a tower that would withstand “wind” generated by the science demonstrator and would be taller than any of the others.

    The students carefully reviewed what other teams had already done and discussed potential improvements. They argued and tried things and pointed out what did and didn’t work.  When another group was testing the wind-resistance of their structure, other teams watched and evaluated.  In some case, they re-evaluated their own towers. 

    As science centre professionals, I don’t have to tell you what the energy was like in the room.  Some may have called it bedlam, others a controlled chaos; it was definitely exciting!  These kids were definitely innovating.  Which is probably why the Saskatchewan Science Centre’s booth was the busiest in the room!

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2015 1:33 PM | Deleted user

    Presented by: International Museum Institute, Inc.

    Available in CANADA for the first time to a whole generation, this dazzling collection of reproductions of Tutankhamun’s legendary treasures recreates the richest archaeological find of all time.  124 replicas of the pharaoh’s sacred and personal possessions (including his magnificent state chariot, golden shrines, beds, thrones, jewelry, spectacular funerary mask, mummy case, and royal mummy) reconstruct both the historic discovery of the tomb by Howard Carter and the life and times of Egypt’s celebrated boy king.

    An innocent puppet-ruler, Tutankhamun was caught in the midst of a dangerous and profound political, spiritual, and artistic revolution against the entire pantheon of ancient Egyptian gods by the first monotheistic religious cult in history.  Along with the magic of the sacred objects, and the infamous curse of Tutankhamun, this classic exhibition vividly brings to life the enigmatic opulent age of 18th Dynasty Egypt.

    Submitted by: 

    Alberto Acosta, Curator, at https://sites.google.com/site/iminytravellingexhibits/.

    For further information contact: iminy@cox.net or (702) 778-3451 


    PHOTO: installation–in-progress at Dynamic Earth, Sudbury, Ontario through September 7, 2015


  • Thursday, September 10, 2015 3:06 PM | Deleted user

    Over 2,000 people walked through the Philip J. Currie Museum on September 3rd, 2015 as the museum offered free admission to area residents. Children and their parents were wowed by the lifelike dinosaur skeletons from Alberta’s Jurassic, Triassic, Cretaceous, and Devonian periods.

    The museum’s official grand opening takes place at the Entrec Centre, Grande Prairie, AB at 6 p.m. on September 26th, 2015 with the Amber Ball – featuring entertainment by Colin James and the Jim Cuddy Band!

    Congratulations on the opening of your beautiful new museum. 




  • Monday, July 13, 2015 3:52 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Today, I heard the news that Claudia Alexander, PhD. passed away.  I met Claudia at the 2015 CASC Conference in Edmonton, when she presented the keynote address to delegates.  I was immediately impressed with her ability to make complex space science theory accessible - and interesting! - to people who aren't geophysicists (like me). I feel privileged to have been able to share in her passion for the mission during her talk at CASC2015.

    By all accounts, she was intelligent, enthusiastic and skilled at bringing people and ideas together.  What impressed me most about Claudia's story is that she became a scientist almost by accident.  She originally wanted to study journalism in college, but her parents would only agree to pay if she studied something "useful", like engineering.  She discovered a love for planetary science through a summer job and she worked hard to earn degrees in Geophysics and Space Physics.

    Claudia's final assignment with NASA was as its Project Scientist in the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.  As a female scientist working in a predominantly male-oriented field, Claudia demonstrated that a passion for science knows no gender boundaries and that career opportunities exist for those that work hard for them.

    I found this quote on astronomy.com "She was known as a champion of STEM education and diversity... her words of advice to future researchers were that science and math take as much effort to master as becoming an athlete or musician, but the rewards are enormous."

    Friends and family of Dr. Claudia Alexander established a scholarship fund for academic scholarships for STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) students.

    Stephanie.



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