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Welcome to the spotlight interview with
Yasmin Jamal Zaqout who will provide you insights and tips on education technology tools.
My Occupation:
HR manager and business consultant
I live in:
Gaza, Palestine
Hi, Yasmin! Please introduce yourself to those who may not know you
My full name is Yasmine Jamal Zaqout. I worked in many important educational institutions in Palestine and abroad. Interested in technology issues, especially augmented and virtual reality technology in terms of design and programming this became my passion. With time, I received many awards and certificates of appreciation in my field. Currently, I am working in a company specialising in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence services as a resource manager. At present, I work for Palestinian universities as a business consultant. It is important to be open to more experiences in my life.
Why did you decide to become an educator?
Being an educator helps me to make a difference and bring benefits to other people. Teachers have a big impact on this planet. I strongly believe that education is one of the greatest professions. You can change the course of a person’s life through the information you provide them.
What is your teaching philosophy?
The philosophy I follow removes the limits. Learners should have no ceiling and they can surprise you with results that exceed expectations. Sometimes what teachers plan can be a different experience in the classroom.
What are the challenges in actively engaging students? How does technology help?
The biggest challenges, according to experiences, are the issue of learner numbers, time and geographical boundaries. In my country, technology helped to complete training courses at home, and refer to educational records. Technology helps with remote training end facilitates information exchange. Technology helped solve all these problems.
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How did you become a tech-oriented educator?
My passion for searching for solutions to problems is what made me technical. Each time I learned a new technological method, I was not satisfied with it. I used to brainstorm other advanced solutions, and this is what made me read many scientific articles that contributed to the expansion of my intellectual perceptions and experiences.
What are you most proud of in your career?
Through my work as a business consultant, I contributed to making the aspirations of many entrepreneurs by making that dream a reality and making them proud of their work. I contributed to developing the experiences of many learners and providing them with free education. For me to provide a service with a return on experiences for free makes you truly human.
What’s your favourite thing about Augmented Classroom?
That there are no limits to learning in the augmented classroom, the learner can see anything they dream about in front of them as real and any time they want, at the lowest possible costs.
What would you like to achieve as an Augmented Classroom ambassador?
To spread many ideas for using this technology in the classroom and training learners on how to use augmented reality technology in terms of tools and content.
We hope you enjoyed the interview with Yasmin Jamal Zaqout about education experiences with tecnology.