Letter no. 13 to all national representatives of GIREP
January 24th , 2018
Dear representative of GIREPThe physics education community is very much alive, all over the world. GIREP is a leading organisation in many initiatives, and again we are proud to announce the official website of the San Sebastian 2018 is open at https://www.girep2018.com/en/home . At the same time, the call for abstracts has been launched. You all know that in 2019 Budapest in Hungary will host the next conference.
The proceedings and book resulting from the Krakow GIREP seminar 2016, are ready for printing, so very soon it will be available.
In Dublin, in July 2017, we had a small meeting and reception for representatives. During the meeting some questions were posed. You can find the report as an annex to this newsletter. Please try to come again in San Sabastian, the programme will indicate when exactly. You know you are all very welcome to all activities. GIREP is a warm community, and it is my strong believe that all of us profit from this atmosphere to even enhance our work, both by getting inspired, as by improving the quality of the work done.
As usual, I want to stress the importance of the collaboration among teachers and hope they can be present at as many meetings as possible. In San Sebastian a separate strand is planned, and special fees are implemented. If you, as representative, or your teachers, cannot be present, please contact us to see how we can find a format for collaboration.
GIREP as a legal entity is looking for new opportunities. If you have suggestions, please let them know. We regard you as valuable peers that can bring in new ideas.
As you know, the GIREP newsletter is the way we communicate all the news with the GIREP community. The link to the latest, number 59, again put together by our secretary Dagmara, is:
https://girep.org/newsletters/newsletter_2017_12.pdf. Please forward this link to your network(s) of contacts interested in research in physics education or physics education in general. I also have sent it as an attachment.
Dear all. Being a community, we urgently need to establish at least a bit of communication among us. Again, but this time with a little more stress, I ask you to let us know what is happening in your country. Fairs, conferences, exchanges, projects with respect to physics education. Please write a short note (one paragraph is enough) for the next GIREP newsletter which is to be launched in May 2018.
Again, thank you very much for everything!
All the best for 2018 and hopefully we meet each other in San Sebastian!
Wim Peeters
Vice-president of GIREP.
Paragraph from Singapore
Singapore's Ministry of Education has been awarded the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education for the works on Open Source Physics at Singapore (OSP@SG) project. OSP@SG has to date customised 300 Easy JavaScript Simulations and 200 Tracker video analysis & models to help teachers bring real-world physics concepts into the classroom. The programme complements real-life experiments by providing interactive models that help visualisation. The programme also has a function for mathematical modelling, where students’ ideas can be modelled and compared with real life and simulated data. Resources developed under this programme are open educational resources and also open-source – it gives teachers and students the freedom to collaborate and share Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) resources for teaching and learning Physics. For example, resources can be embedded within interactive textbooks. The modelling tools available are free for students all over the world to access and edit. Since 2012, MOE has been collaborating with Singapore schools on OSP@SG, with positive feedback received on the project both in Singapore and around the world.
We would also like to express our appreciation to the Open Source Physics community especially Francisco Esquembre and Felix García from Spain, Fu-Kwun Hwang from Taiwan, as well as Wolfgang Christian and Douglas Brown from the USA. They are visionaries who have made their codes freely available so that others, like us, can change the simulations and models to suit our own curriculum context.
We hope that Open Source Physics @ Singapore can be work on together, adapted to benefit many more learners around the world, together we with do the right thing to provide opportunity and a better future to all, regardless of race, language or religion or gender.
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/ict-in-education-prize/
http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2016/01/singapores-ict-pedagogical-innovation-recognised-by-unesco.php
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