Me And My Shoes
Hi. I am Amtus Salam Annie more commonly known as Annie khan. I
have a passion for learning and believe that learning is a lifelong process. My
whole education belonged to Lahore (Pakistan), I have done my masters in Arabic
from the Punjab University, Lahore (Pakistan).
I have an experience of teaching Arabic language in the same
Dept.Lahore is a capital of Punjab province in Pakistan; it’s a historical city full of culture and full of life. People are very hospitable and loving. Lahore has highest number of educational institutions compared with other cities of the whole country. It’s a city of educationists.
I spent big part of my life there. About 17 years back I came to
UAE. Here I got a chance to work in a Multicultural environment and this proved
as a great experience for me.
Currently I am working as the Head of Islamic Department in the
Central School, Dubai and have been teaching Islamic Studies there to the
Higher Secondary since 2003.I first started teaching here to Multinational students from different cultures. I learnt how to deal with them being a teacher. This increased my different qualities of understanding. Getting multicultural learning opportunities open the minds and hearts which is important for the learning processes.
When I joined the PGCTHE
course and embarked on this journey and interacted and studied with more
different and diverse people, it helped me to improve my teaching skills and
understanding.
Using technology in
education is a great thing and looks very fascinating, but how much is it
beneficial? How much do the students misuse the use of technology? And how much
will the graph of learning increase? How will the teachers keep an eye on
students especially in developing countries? These are some of the main questions
which arise in the minds, which need answers.
Searching for these answers I continued my journey with
Multicultural e-learning.
I hope that my
understanding and awareness with Multicultural e-learning will improve
further.
More often walking in others’ shoes leads to enhanced observation
and diversified e-learning experience.
Hi Annie, Thank you for describing your background and context to us. You wrote: Getting multicultural learning opportunities open the minds and hearts which is important for the learning processes. I think you have found very important thing concerning multicultural learning: walking forward with open mind and heart. You shared also some apt questions that have risen when you are thinking about multicultural learning. I hope we can find answers in this module by working together. I wish you a productive learning path! Irja
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Warmly welcome to study multicultural authentic e-learning from your own point of entry!
ReplyDeleteHi Annie, thank you for your blog. I see you have a lot of multicultural experience already. You have studied that, have teached in multicultural environment and experienced that yourself too when moving abroad. It´s easy to agree with you that learning is a lifelong process (this course being one part of it). You have listed a lot of interesting questions, hope this course will give some answers. I would be interested too to see those too. BR Tuire
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