Teaching in Lebanon - May Mikati's Blog

  The internet has made dictionaries more accessible to all globally. However, the online dictionaries clearly vary in credibility. Rather t...

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you may be expecting a post from me about the Word of the Year 2023 around this time. Personally, I ...

When I was young and naïve, I used to think that jokes were merely for putting smiles on people’s faces or satirizing people in power to exp...

  The term “disruptive” always sounded entirely negative to me until the concept of disruptive technology gained currency. When computers ...

  As a teacher of writing, I constantly emphasize to my students the importance of learning writing skills for the future. Having come acros...

It seems that AI systems can tell both intentional and unintentional untruths – the latter now referred to by some as “hallucinations”. When...

An interesting article by Sydney Butler, a freelance computer expert, has just caught my attention. Entitled “How to Make ChatGPT Copy Your ...

Today I asked ChatGPT: Aren't you suspected of writing people's blogs for them? It did not deny it; this is the reply received: As a...

Today I am sharing a poem on the power of words: how they can haunt the writer or speaker indefinitely. Written by Canadian farmer and write...

As usual at the end of every year, it is enlightening to look back at the top-rated words worldwide, based on different sources. Interesting...

Has higher education become all carrot and no stick? Are we so tolerant of what some of our learners produce – or don’t produce – that dis...

  T hose of us who have so far been fortunate to escape Covid should be feeling blessed; some survivors have brain damage affecting thought,...

Whether to include blogging under a broad umbrella of journalism has been a matter of debate for a long time. While the difference between b...

The title of AUB’s latest international conference on effective teaching and learning was “Negotiating New Norms of Teaching and Learning in...

 The World Economic Forum recently published an article on “Universities After Covid”, by  Kyungmee Lee, a Senior Lecturer in Technology Enh...

Those who hadn’t heard of hybrid or blended teaching ended up hearing about them during the past year or two. While the two terms were often...

While the 2020 dictionary words of the year revolved around the problem of Covid-19, including pandemic , lockdown , superspreader , and qua...

 If you google teaching post Covid, you will probably find more articles dated 2020 than 2021. A year ago, teachers and administrators were ...

Unsurprisingly, the unusual circumstances of the pandemic have brought to light the need to appreciate the efforts of essential workers such...

Those of us who have kept our blogs going during the Covid-19 pandemic must be wondering how this pandemic has affected other bloggers. One ...

  What is a university? A set of buildings and grounds, or an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills, and share widely? Judging from my ...

Visitors to Lebanon tend to wonder why the country is in a chronic and growing mess despite the high level of education in the country – and...