September 5, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve got another blogpost in draft for DAYS now and I’ll get back to it eventually. Inshallah But this one. I NEED to write this one. As I prepare for my OEPS keynote next week (virtual) and have had to … Continue reading
August 30, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 4 minutesYesterday I lost my patience Today I saw this tweet by Jesse Stommel on how patience is pedagogical (check out the whole thread on empathy for students as well). https://twitter.com/Jessifer/status/902664547378528256 So what happened yday is that after a full day … Continue reading
July 12, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 4 minutesI had a really interesting and enriching working day today. I was asked to (for the second time) offer a workshop on critical pedagogy for an NGO. The participants are, like, interns training to be social workers for orphanages in … Continue reading
July 5, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 3 minutesSo a colleague and I were working on some team-building activities for an upcoming work thing. We both really enjoy this kind of thing, and we explored some useful sites (this one’s good for light activities, this one’s great for complex serious ones about … Continue reading
July 3, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the problems of working on social media about things that tackle issues of inclusion and participation, and talking about hospitality and stuff…is that at some point, people tend to expect more of you than you could ever possibly … Continue reading
May 19, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 5 minutesIf the rose at noon has lost the beauty it had at dawn, the beauty it had then was real. Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more … Continue reading
May 16, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I stayed up til 1am to attend the first #LXCONF session given by Indi Young, which focused on Designing with Empathy. I enjoyed the session. I had read a couple of articles by Indi beforehand, and my co-teachers teach … Continue reading
May 15, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 1 minutesA thought occurred to me. The #edtechRations book…it’s got all these chapters about what we couldn’t leave home without, right? What if I had different students read different chapters from the book (its CC licensed so I could copy different … Continue reading
April 27, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe only way to make borders meaningless is to keep insisting on crossing them – Lina Mounzer Do we really listen to each other? Do we really listen to perspectives different from our own? … flickr photo by Theophilos shared … Continue reading
April 26, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSo of all the million things on my mind today, this is the one I will blog. Lesson plan on Terms and Conditions I remember a while ago Jade Davis wrote about something like that. On DML? Will link to it when I … Continue reading