by Lev Horodyskyj | 16 July 2019 | Course Design
How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? It’s a common trope that adults just don’t understand kids these days, with their twits and tiktoks and facespaces. This can become especially apparent in the classroom setting when in order to try to stay relevant, instructors...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 11 June 2019 | Public and Pipeline
How to Reinvent the Science Fair It was an event I looked forward to every year. A time when I could be with people like me and feel a little bit like a rock star, plus get free travel to new places and compete for lucrative prizes. It was the science fair. ...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 14 May 2019 | Course Design
What If I’m Wrong? “We’ll pass you on the defense, but not on the thesis.” The words did not make sense to me. I had barely managed to drag myself over the finish line as it was. Everyone had assured me that I wouldn’t have been allowed to defend my PhD thesis...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 30 April 2019 | Course Design
Missed Opportunities Online and on Computers In moments of transition, there are also many opportunities. For me, my moment of transition has become an enormous learning opportunity, which I have utilized to dive into a wide range of new topics including human rights,...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 16 April 2019 | Course Design
Teaching with Stories Days with Penguins. It’s the earliest story I can remember writing. I can’t even remember how old I was when I wrote it. I think I may have written it as soon as I could read and write. It was a simple story about four penguins, each...
