Gkiolmas Aristotelis
Assistant Professor
Department of Sciences & New Technologies
Didactics of Physics
Office 508
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+30 2310 991205
agkiolm@eled.auth.gr
Aristotelis Gkiolmas is a tenured Assistant Professor in the academic topic: “Didactics of Physics”, at the School of Primary Education, of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH).
He is a graduate of the Physics’ Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He also holds a Master’s Degree in ” Science in Education” from the Department of Pedagogy and Primary Education of the NKUA, and a PhD from the same Department.
He worked for a number of years as a Physicist in the Tutoring, the Private, as well as the Public Greek Secondary Education.
He taught as a Lecturer of the Presidential Decree 407/80 in undergraduate courses and laboratories of the Department of Pedagogy and Primary Education of the NKUA, but also as a co-operating teaching staff in Postgraduate Programs of the same Department.
He was a member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff (EDIP), in the Department of Pedagogy and Primary Education of the NKUA. He is a member of the Collaborating Teaching Staff (SEP) of the Hellenic Open University (EAP), in a Master’s Degree Program (MPS), while he has taught in the Interdepartmental Master’s Program related to STEM, which was implemented by NKUA and the University of Patras.
His research and writing work focuses on Didactics of Physics, the theories, tools and methodologies for the teaching and learning of Physics for pupils, undergraduate students and teachers, as well as the use of technological tools (among them: Educational Robotics) for Physics’ education. He has participated in European and Greek research programs and he has been a member of scientific committees and reviewing committees of various Conferences and Journals.
He is a member of ENEFET (Association for the Education in Science and Technology) and a member of GIREP (Groupe International de Recherche sur l’Enseignement de la Physique, International Research Group on Physics Teaching), responsible for the Thematic Group “Physics and Society” .
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Karamanos, K., Gkiolmas, A., Chalkidis, A., Skordoulis, C., Papaconstantinou, M., & Stavrou, D. (2012). “Ecosystem Food-webs as Dynamic Systems: Educating Undergraduate Teachers in Conceptualizing Aspects of Food-webs’ Systemic Nature and Comportment”. Advances in Systems’ Science and Applications, Vol.12, No.4, pp.49-68.
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Gkiolmas, A., Karamanos, K., Chalkidis, A., Skordoulis, C., Papaconstantinou, M., & Stavrou, D. (2013). “Using simulations of NetLogo as a tool for introducing Greek High- School students to eco–systemic thinking”. Advances in Systems’ Science and Applications, Vol.13, No.3, pp. 275-297.
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Karamanos, K., Gkiolmas, A., & Skordoulis, C. (2011) “Recent developments in the digital approach of symbolic dynamics”. Kybernetes, Vol. 40, Issue: 5/6, pp.921 – 925.
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Skordoulis, C., Tolias, V., Stavrou, D., Karamanos, K., & Gkiolmas, A. (2014). Teaching Chaos with a Pendulum to Greek Secondary School Students. Advances in Systems’ Science and Applications, Vol.14, No.2, pp. 158-169.
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Gkiolmas, A., & Chalkidis, A. (2019). The Interconnection between Critical Media and Social Media Literacy and Science Literacy in Adolescents and Children: A Critical Pedagogy Approach. The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy, 1 (2), pp. 214-227.
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Gkiolmas, A., & Chalkidis, A. (2020), Science and Scientific Discoveries through the lens of Critical Pedagogies. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. 19 (2), pp. 92-99.
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Gkiolmas, A., Dimakos, C., Chalkidis, A. & Stoumpa, A. (2020). An Environmental Education Project that measures particulate matter via an Arduino interface. Sustainable Futures, Vol. 2, 100027, ISSN 2666-1888, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2020.100027 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188820300204). Elsevier Publishers.
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Gkiolmas, Α., Stoumpa, Α., Lazos, Α., Skordoulis, C., Chalkidis, A., Michalopoulos, V., & Balwit, J. (2021): “An instructional method, based on POE (Predict-Observe-Explain), for teaching two basic wave properties and the wave nature of light”. Journal of Physics (Publishers: IOP Science): Conference Series, Volume 1929, Issue 1, p. 012086.
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Gkiolmas, Α., Stoumpa, Α., Chalkidis, A. & Skordoulis, C. (2021): A combination of historical Physics’ documents and other teaching tools for the instruction of prospective teachers in Chaos and Complexity. In: Sidharth, B.G., Carnicer, J., Michelini, M., Perea, C. (Eds.) “Fundamental Physics and Physics Education Research”. SPRINGER Publishers, pp. 251-261.
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Gkiolmas, A., Papaconstantinou, M., Chalkidis, A., & Skordoulis, C. (2016). Multi-Agent Models, Made in NetLogo, for Teaching Simple Properties of Compex Natural Systems, and their Instructional Use. In: Zacharoula Smyrnaiou, Martin Riopel & Menelaos Sotiriou (Editors) : “Recent Advances in Science and Technology Education, Ranging from Modern Pedagogies to Neuro-education and Assessment”, pp. 146-157. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
COURSES
THE EXPERIMENT AND ITS ROLE FOR PHYSICS IN PRIMARY EDUCATION
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS IN PHYSICS EDUCATION
