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في ظل إعلان إغلاق المدارس والمؤسسات الجامعية   بسبب الكورونا ، وجد العاملين في الشأن التعليمي من مدرسين وهيئات تدريسية في الجامعات و قائمين على التعليم في وزارات التربية والتعليم في عالمنا العربي أنفسهم في موقف لايحسدون عليه، مابين الرغبة في استكمال العملية التعليمية ومساعدة الطلاب على التحول للتعليم الالكتروني   وبين تحديات لا حصر لها... الأمر قد يبدو صعباً جداً، ولكن لا تقلق هناك من يريد ان يساعدك لاجتياز هذه المرحلة الصعبة ... نحن هنا في منظمة " ِ Carey Institute For Global Good " ومقرها نيويورك بالولايات المتحدة ، يهمنا أن نكون بجانبك نمد لك يد العون والمساعدة من خلال تنمية مهاراتك وقدراتك الخاصة باستخدام التقنيات الحديثة في التعليم، وذلك من خلال وسيلتين : 1) حلقات نقاشية نعرض فيها سبل المساعدة ونناقش معك أهم التحديات والعقبات و 2) دورة سريعة على الانترنت تتطرق لأساسيات التعليم الالكتروني الفعال وأهم المهارات المطلوبة من خلال عدد من التمرينات العملية.   الحلقة النقاشية الأولي يوم الأربعاء الموافق 25 مارس 2020 وسوف تنظم مرتين ويمكنك حضور أي من الموعدي...

On 29 August 2018, the Education in Conflict and Crisis Network (ECCN) and the INEE Technology and Education in Crises Task Team (TECTT), with support from USAID, hosted a webcast to introduce a new tool called the  Checklist for ICT Interventions to Support Education in Crisis and Conflict Settings  (ICT in EiCC Checklist). This tool was developed as a collaboration between ECCN members and staff and INEE TECTT members to help ensure that ICT interventions supporting education activities in communities impacted by crisis and conflict are conflict sensitive. Watch the  webcast recording  ( https://youtu.be/aC2YLszKAzc ).  Download the  webcast presentation  (PDF). Download the tool -  Checklist for ICT Interventions to Support Education in Crisis and Conflict Settings  (PDF). Do you have a project that could benefit from piloting the ICT in EiCC Checklist? Contact Simon Richmond at  srichmond@edc.org .

On August 29th I will be one of the presenters to this important webcast. Until writing those lines here there are around 200 who registered for the event. I did not finalize my PPT, however, I am very excited about it. THis is the final stage of a collaborative work between INEE & ECCN to develop this checklist, a checklist that would help practitioners who have an ICT componenet within their educatinal initiatives to use that componenet in a highly conflict sensitive manner. It was a process with a couple of iterations until it reached this final stage.  WEBCAST ANNOUNCEMENT: ECCN and INEE’s Technology and Education in Crises Task Team (TECTT) are jointly hosting this webcast to introduce a new tool called the  Checklist for ICT Interventions to Support Education in Crisis and Conflict Settings  (or ICT in EiCC Checklist). This information communication technologoy (ICT) tool was developed as a collaboration between ECCN members and staff and INEE TECTT memb...

ON August 25th I will be publicly speaking on "Accelerated Education for Refugee Children with Limited and Interrupted Formal Education "  a webinar hosted to Al Qazzaz Foundation in Canada. I was informed about this opportunity with a very short notive, but I prepared a pretty well-overview onto the topic, that whenever going deeper I recognize its width and depth. AE is my passion and I really would hope to contribute in that field Here are the topics taht will be covered in the one hour webinar: Accelerated Education…defined SLIFE: Students with limited or interrupted formal education Different educational needs and different responses AE key principles Accelerated Learning Pedagogy… an overview

HOW TO PLAN, DESIGN AND MANAGE ACCELERATED EDUCATION IN A CRISIS CONTEXT is the title of a course developed to be provided online for refugee educators, teachers and facilitators. During the Summer Workshop on Sustainable Blended Learning, that I have attended (August 6th - 9th) in NY, I was asked to choose a topic for my course. I had to think throroughly, all the others came from the academia and were developing their curricula online. I decided to make it on AE, becasue this is a topic: - I am so passionate about - I have a good understanidng about, due to my work on a consultancy peieve with UNHCR related to AE in the MENA region. - I know that there is material in Arabic, and the platform on which the course is being developed in also compabtible with the Arabic language. Below is a snapshot about the 4 week modular course develped on EUREKOS, Carey INstitute's platform: For whom is this course intended? This course is intended for educators, teachers, facili...

The INEE Technology Task Team is pleased to announce the launch of the ICT Inventory for Education in Emergencies ! ict.ineesite.org About The  ICT Inventory  is an interactive, online database of technology resources for delivering quality education in emergencies. The ICT Inventory curates technology  tools  that are, or can be, used to deliver education, as well as  projects where education technology is used in crisis contexts. While other education and edtech portals exist, the ICT Inventory fills a gap with its focus on education in emergencies; and it is unique in its crowdsourced nature, responsive and interactive design, and comprehensive categorization structure. The goal of the ICT Inventory is to make it easy to find and share useful tools and real world examples of technology use in crisis contexts. Users This website is designed primarily for educators and education in emergencies providers, as well as education technology develo...

Dear Mona, First, thank you for being a committed part of our OpenIDEO community and for being involved in the Education in Emergencies Challenge. Based on your expertise and commitment to this topic, we are thrilled to invite you to be an Advisor in the Education in Emergencies Alliance. As an advisor and mentor you can be catalytic in empowering innovators. Our hope is to elevate and celebrate not only the innovators, but also the experts, thought leaders and people helping to create an ecosystem of change. You can learn more HERE and there's additional details below. Next steps : If you would like to join us as an Advisor in this initiative, complete this brief survey (clocked at under 5 min)–so we can find your perfect innovator matches by March 16, and we will follow up with next steps. If you know of any other exceptional individuals passionate about the space. Please let me know. About the program: After the Education in Emergencies Ch...

Reference # 1 Martha Hewison Education Advisor UNHCR, Tanzania hewison@unhcr.org Reference # 2 Diana Woolis Director, Center for Learning in Practice at The Carey Institute for Global Good (New York) dwoolis@careyinstitute.org (646) 573-4676 Reference # 3 Julie Kasper Refugee Educator Academy Project Manager JKasper@Careyinstitute.org (520) 405-2433

I have just finished this 6-week amazing course on coaching and mentoring of teachers in crisis contexts. It was organized by the Carey Institute for Global Good and led by Amazing Dr Rosemary Arca. I really did enjoy it. The Course e xplores how to coach refugee educators; discusses coaching methods and routines that support faculty including examples of effective lessons, weekly messages and lesson comments; and include discussion on reflective practice and provide strategies to support faculty as they learn and implement the practice to deepen reflection on their work. Learning facilitator: Professor Emerita Rosemary Arca, author of the Coaching Field Guide for the City University of New York (CUNY) Reflective Practice Institute.  The course's learning objectives: The framing questions are: 1. What is reflective coaching and why is it a powerful tool? 2. What expertise leads to successful coaching? 3. How is skill in the craft of coaching developed? ...

Can't Wait to Learn (CWtL) Project  Can’tWait to Learn (CWtL) proposes new cost-effective solutions to the urgent challenges facing education for children in emergencies. By utilising innovative technological solutions with a focus on serious gaming, CWtL builds on concepts which have been successfully piloted in Sudan. Can’t Wait to Learn has the potential to provide out-of-school children with access to education opportunities, especially in rural areas where no formal schools exist. The programme uses education technology as part of a model of education which is offering certified curriculum level content through applied gaming and personalised pupil engagement. The role of Qatar-based volunteer team A team of six developed Arabic stories, that were aligned to set grammar lessons. My role as Team Lead was to bridge the communication between the team members and the development team in Amsterdam. I additionally supported with tasks related to linguistic checkin...

I am very pleased to be currently a member of the INEE Technology in Crisis Task Team . Not only that, I am also a co-convenor of that brilliant team. I joined in late April and started the task of co-convenor in July. All started when I actively took part in that task (providing feedback on the ICT Inventory), that I really liked, and thought is a brilliant idea.. Then the ball started - finally -rolling, and the doors opened..... to a world that I just dreamt of reaching one day.

What is MIKTA? MIKTA is an innovative partnership that brings together Mexico, Indonesia, Republic of Korea (ROK), Turkey, and Australia. It is a consultative forum, aimed at advancing members’ shared interests in an international system that is fit for purpose in the 21st Century. What is the Education in Emergencies Challenge? The challenge is a global call for ideas to begin to source new solutions to the delivery of education in emergency situations, particularly focused on girls. Who could apply? Innovators from across the world – but, particularly from Mexico, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Turkey and Australia – to submit ideas that have the potential to make a big impact. We welcome submissions from individuals, universities, NGOs, the private sector or any other entity.    What does “Education in Emergencies” mean and why is this an important problem? Emergencies have a devastating impact on the structure and effectiveness of educati...

Downloadable Demo of Educational Inventory produced by EduServ for Qatari Teachers  I provided consultancy to EduServ (a Qatari for-profit educational consultancy) to plan, design and manage a local inventory of digitalized K-12 educational resources, and mapping those to the local curriculum standards to be used by public schools within Qatar. The work included providing pedagogical description and advice to each of the hundreds of provided online educational resources and the design of advanced taxonomies and search options. Read more about EduServ  (English)  here

I am an Independent Consultant in the field of " Education in Emergencies ". I have an over  15 years experience in the MENA region, in the field of teaching, teacher training, curriculum development and instructional design with specific interest and postgraduate studies related to education in emergencies' (EiE) with a specific focus on the use of ICT in conflict and post-conflict contexts, I am as well interested in the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of educational initiatives.  I recently finalized a UNHCR consultancy (Accelerated Education Research – MENA region). I looked into the educational challenges of out-of-school Syrian refugees and assessed the AEPs provided in 5 countries: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey. This included both remote data gathering and field trips. An earlier consultancy for War Child Holland aimed to map curriculum of Sudan, Syria and Lebanon to replicate an ICT-based learning game for Syrian out-of-school refugee chil...