The Great Powers of the Blue Genie is a reflective short story on the powers of AI. It tries to put in perspective that despite its novelty, the powers of AI were not the first that people were faced with. In an attempt to link the distant past with the vivacious present, the piece creates a link of similarities, poses a lot of questions, and leaves the final judgment to the reader.
AI was used in part in the process of creating the piece.
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I am honored to contribute a chapter in the book Mosaic of Tongues: Multilingual Learning for the Arabic-speaking World. Chapter title: Learning Arabic Outside the Arab World: a Language of Identity That Opens Doors of Opportunity.
RLP is an open Education resource. An Online Interactive Arabic Reading Material that provides original reading texts in the form of shareable eBooks alongside virtual online practice activities. The materials are designed according to the Comprehensible Input (CI) theory and the Teaching Proficiency Through the Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) method. The resources are aligned to … Continue reading RLP إقرأ العربية و تعلّم
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Despite it being used to hold different types of meetings, Zoom was actually designed with the educator in mind (Li et. al. 2021). From the very beginning Zoom meetings were valued differently by different educators. Some educators could not help but notice how these meetings were lacking the paralinguistic cues and nonverbal communication that is … Continue reading Zoom with Confidence and Breakout with Assurance
Experiences and innovations during the years 2020 and 2021. Read the whole article here (pages 14 to 17).
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Read the article in the ACTFL Distance Learning Special Interest Group Fall 2020 Newsletter (pages 12-16) DL_SIG_Newsletter_Fall_2020_FINAL
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Read the full article here: End-of-Year-2020-rev. Massachusets Foreign Language Association Newsletter pages 7-9
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Read the full article in The Language Educator, SUMMER 2020|VOLUME 15|ISSUE 3
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How to Zoom teach like a pro! Read Full Article Here.
Read Full article in the CT COLT Summer 2020 Newsletter (page 12) to find out why you might want to stand when you teach online.
Madrasa is the biggest Arabic online educational program serving over fifty million learners. A Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Initiative, it is run in cooperation with UNESCO, UNICEF and ICESCO. I am both happy and proud that they selected my book to be animated and added to their library. Link to videos here and here. … Continue reading Madrasa Platform Animates book and adds it to library
