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HERITAGE LANGUAGE EDUCATOR WORKSHOP SUMMER 2024

To enhance my knowledge of effective Heritage Language teaching practices, I enrolled in the National Heritage Resource Center’s online summer course. The four-week course focused on key concepts and pedagogical approaches in Heritage Language teaching, understanding and meeting the language needs of Heritage Language learners, and differentiated instruction – responding to the needs of individual … Continue reading HERITAGE LANGUAGE EDUCATOR WORKSHOP SUMMER 2024

The Great Powers of the Blue Genie

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.

Click below to read and listen to the piece.

The great powers of the blue genie.

 

RLP إقرأ العربية و تعلّم

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

Zoom with Confidence and Breakout with Assurance

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