Academic conferences

  • 2018  Long term impact: Students’ inquiry through the lens of time. Joint Meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Groups 20 (“Inquiry Learning”) and 26 (“Argumentation, Dialogue and Reasoning”). (October 2018) Jerusalem, Israel.
  • 2017   Emergence of simulations models and their impact as part of course teaching. The Fifteen MEITAL Conference, Teaching and Learning Technologies Accelerating Higher Education, (June, 2017) University of Haifa, Haifa.
  • 2017   Simulations models as part of teaching, learning and training in a College of education. Ohalo Conference of Innovative Education (May, 2017), Tiberias & Katzrin, Israel.
  • 2017 What kind of Statistics should be studied in school? Jerusalem Conference on Research in Mathematics Education (JCRME5) (February, 2017), Jerusalem, Israel. 
  • 2017 Long-term impact on students’ informal inferential reasoning. Levinsky Conference for Research in Education (February, 2017), Tel-Aviv, Israel. 
  • 2016 Introducing secondary school students to big data and its social impact: a study within an innovative learning environment. The International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) Round-table Conference Proceedings (July 2016), Berlin, Germany.
  • 2016 Long term impact: Students’ inquiry through the lens of time. EARLI 2016 Joint SIG 20 and SIG 26 meeting “Inquiry and Argumentation: Education for Thinking” (August 2016), Ghent, Belgium [accepted but not presented].
  • 2015   Promoting Modeling of Informal Covariational Reasoning among Secondary School Students in the Context of Big Data. The Ninth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy (SRTL9): “Reasoning about Models and Modelling in the Context of Informal Statistical Inference” (July 2015), Paderborn, Germany. 
  • 2015   Learning about big data among secondary school students in a technology-supported collaborative learning environment(Invited presentation). Closing Conference: Statistical and Computational Analytics for Big Data (June 2015), Halifax, NS. http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/CANSSI/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/GilE.pdf 
  • 2015   Panel discussions on: Training for data science at the undergraduate and graduate levels (Invited panelist). Closing Conference: Statistical and Computational Analytics for Big Data (June 2015), Halifax, NS. 
  • 2015   Knowledge Community and Inquiry about big data among high school students with Interactive Orchestrated Learning Space (Poster). The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) (June 2015), Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • 2014   Long-term impact on students’ informal inferential reasoning, The Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS9, July 2014), Flagstaff, Arizona. 
  • 2014   Session organizer: Research on developing students’ informal statistical inferential reasoning, The Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS9, July 2014), Flagstaff, Arizona.
  • 2014   Long term impact on students’ informal inferential statistical reasoning. Canadian Mathematics Education Forum (CMEF 2014), The University of Ottawa, Ottawa.
  • 2013  Long term impacts of learning: Promoting informal inferential statistical reasoning in an inquiry-based technology-rich learning environment. Seminar Series of the Technologies in Education Program: “Humanity, Education, and Technology”, The University of Haifa, Israel.
  • 2011  A longitudinal perspective about learning to reason about sample and sampling in the context of developing informal inferential reasoning (90 minutes research presentation). The Seventh International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy (SRTL7): “New approaches to developing reasoning about samples and sampling in informal statistical inference”, Texel Island, The Netherlands.
  • 2011  Promoting informal inferential statistical reasoning among children and youth: Can there be a long term effect? (Presentation). The Third National Conference of doctoral students, ISEF 2011: Academic Research, Industry and Society, Jerusalem, Israel.
  • 2011  Design and research in exploratory data analysis and informal inferential reasoning in primary school in an inquiry-based environment (Presentation). International TinkerPlots Workshop, Kassel, Germany.
  • 2011  Designing for emergent understanding: Random sampling (Poster). The Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME7): Stochastic Thinking (WG5), Rzeszów, Poland.
  • 2010  Informal inferential statistical reasoning among school students. The Ninth PhD Students’ Conference for Teaching Mathematics and Science, Nir Etzyon, Israel.
  • 2010  Emergence of reasoning about sampling among young students in the context of informal inferential reasoning (research presentation). The Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8), Lubliana, Slovenia.
  • 2009  Design considerations in an online wiki-based course (Presentation). The Seventh MEITAL Conference (e-learning in higher education), Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Tel-Aviv.
  • 2009  The role of explanations and context in informal inferential reasoning among sixth grade students (90 minutes research presentation). The Sixth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL-6), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
  • 2008  Using TinkerPlots to Develop Primary School Students’ Reasoning about Informal Statistical Inference (not an active presenter). Annual Chais Conference 2009 on Instructional Technologies Research “Learning in the Technological Era”, Open University, Israel.
  • 2008  Creativity in Learning to Reason informally about Statistical Inference in primary school (Research presentation). The Fifth International Conference on Creativity in Mathematics and the Education of Gifted Students (CMEG5), University of Haifa & The Technion, Haifa, Israel.
  • 2007  Design considerations of research-based learning environment intended to develop six graders’ informal inferential reasoning(poster presentation). The Fifth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL5), University of Warwick, UK.

Selected guest lectures in courses and seminars

  • Teaching and learning in Future Learning Spaces. Innovative teaching forum, Levinsky College of Education (26/10/17).
  • The visualization revolution in data analysis in education. A Stage for Innovation, Levinsky College of Education (23/11/17).
  • Learning about Big Data among secondary school students in a technology-supported collaborative learning environment. Technologies in Education Department Seminar, University of Haifa [Video link] (23/12/2015); Statistical Sciences Department Seminar, University of Toronto (24/9/2015)
  • Knowledge Community and Inquiry about big data and covariational reasoning among Secondary School Students with Interactive Orchestrated Learning Space. University of Haifa (31/12/2014)
  • Long-term impact of learning on reasoning about sample and sampling in the context of informal inferential statistical reasoning. Guest skype lecture at a graduate course, University of Haifa (14/5/2014) 
  • Long-term impact of learning: Promoting informal inferential statistical reasoning in an inquiry-based technology-rich learning environment. Encore Lab, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto (26/9/2013) 
  • Long term impact of learning: Promoting informal inferential statistical reasoning in an inquiry-based technology-rich learning environment. Seminar at the Technologies in Education Program, University of Haifa, Israel (24/3/2013) 
  • Complex systems inquiry using NetLogo models and Exploratory data analysis and informal inference – two video lectures given within a course of inquiry-based learning for teachers of gifted students. The Department of gifted students learning, Ministry of Education, Israel (19/2/2013) 
  • The place of explanations in developing informal inferential reasoning among Primary school students. Thinking Math: Mathematics Education Department seminar, University of Haifa (22/4/2010)