Teaching in Lebanon - May Mikati's Blog

  During Covid times, with the pandemic impacting education, I blogged about the need for teaching resilience after UNESCO had recognised th...

Mentioning LinkedIn to my first-year undergraduate students often elicits blank looks, as if they have not heard of the site. While highly a...

Noam Chomsky was one of the pioneers of computational linguistics in the 1950s. According to the IEEE Computer Society History Committee, he...

News of Noam Chomsky’s recent ill health has caused quite a stir lately. Writing a short blog post about the father of modern linguistics wi...

The term scholasticide has recently gained currency in the media though it is not new. Apparently, it was coined in 2009 by Oxford Professo...

  When micro-blogging, typified by Twitter, went viral, for many of us that sounded like a death knell for traditional blogging. The spread ...

The American musician Riley King has been quoted as saying, “The beautiful thing about education is that no one can take it away from you.” ...

Studying the emerging trends in higher education, the salient ones include the rise of blended and hybrid models, along with better integrat...

My first-year composition students recently wrote essays  on their former experiences with “voice” in writing. Most of them, except a very s...

  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...