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
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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
April 24, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 1 minutesSo a quick brainstorm on my upcoming digital literacies course.. Is that I think after covering certain dimensions of theory/ideas with students, I can ask them to break up into groups of 4 where they do the following (coordinating topic … Continue reading
April 15, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve never properly studied empathy, though it’s a personal and research interest of mine. I think and write about it a lot, observe it, occasionally read around it, but not properly. I should remedy that. In the meantime, this article I heard … Continue reading
April 12, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSo here it is – I heard that my pilot course on digital literacies (with an intercultural dimension involving a Soliya component) has been approved to run as a core curriculum (liberal arts option) Fall 2017 inshallah. I was going … Continue reading
March 4, 2017
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn response to my recent post “Ask Me My Race ONE More Time!” I got these tweets: @Bali_Maha thank you for writing this. Power rests with the category makers – but for how much longer? — Sherri Spelic (@edifiedlistener) March 3, 2017 … Continue reading
March 2, 2017
by Maha Bali
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Caucasian race (also Caucasoid,[1] or Europid[2]) is a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon, including some or all of the populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, Central Asia and South Asia.[3] That was from Wikipedia. Within the Caucasian race, there are 3 different subgroups … Continue reading