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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

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The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

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E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. The physical space is an open lab space, with lots of white boards, fast wifi, turkish coffee, and lots of geeks sitting on bean bag chairs or at tables with laptops on their laps coding and hacking on their projects. Rami Al-Karmi, N2V Lab.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

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Shabakat Al Ordon trains young people in technical, professional and facilitation skills who then go out and create programs to train people in their communities. The Morocco Team discussed how Youth Without Borders is a networked network and the Yemen Team pointed out how the Youth Leadership Development Foundation is one as well.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

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The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop. Illustration by Beth Kanter. That’s the theory at least.