{"id":12634,"date":"2019-09-30T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12634"},"modified":"2019-09-30T10:35:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:35:11","slug":"mit-haiti-initiative-launches-platfom-mit-ayiti-pou-yon-lekol-tet-an-wo%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/09\/30\/mit-haiti-initiative-launches-platfom-mit-ayiti-pou-yon-lekol-tet-an-wo%ef%bb%bf\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT-Haiti Initiative Launches &#8220;Platf\u00f2m MIT-Ayiti pou yon lek\u00f2l t\u00e8t an wo&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/haiti.mit.edu\/\">MIT-Haiti Initiative<\/a>\u00a0 under the leadership of Prof.\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/mit.edu\/degraff\">Michel DeGraff\u00a0<\/a>(Linguistics) &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/math.mit.edu\/~hrm\/\">Prof. Haynes Miller<\/a> (MIT Mathematics), has just launched a\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/mit-ayiti.net\/\">&#8220;Platf\u00f2m MIT-Ayiti pou yon lek\u00f2l t\u00e8t an wo&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/mit-ayiti.net\/\">http:\/\/MIT-Ayiti.NET<\/a>\u00a0. \u00a0 This online platform will function as a digital library \/ repository for the crowdsourcing, exchange and sharing of teaching materials in Haitian Creole (&#8220;Krey\u00f2l&#8221;) in all disciplines at all grade levels. All materials on the platform will be openly accessible via a Creative Commons license. \u00a0This platform is in response to Haitian educators&#8217; demands for more materials in Krey\u00f2l for active learning. This platform will also help build communities of practice among Haitian teachers who believe in the use of Haitian Creole (&#8220;Krey\u00f2l&#8221;) as an indispensable tool for quality education for all in Haiti. \u00a0We&#8217;re hoping that this platform will become a model for other communities that have been\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/lingphil.scripts.mit.edu\/papers\/degraff\/DeGraff_in_Science_Magazine_20180504_Linguistics_in%20right_to_education.pdf\">disenfranchised<\/a>\u00a0as their native languages are excluded from education \u0097 due to all-too-familiar\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/lingphil.scripts.mit.edu\/papers\/degraff\/DeGraff_2019_Against_Apartheid_in_Haiti.pdf\">colonial reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0MIT-Haiti Initiative\u00a0 under the leadership of Prof.\u00a0Michel DeGraff\u00a0(Linguistics) &amp; Prof. Haynes Miller (MIT Mathematics), has just launched a\u00a0&#8220;Platf\u00f2m MIT-Ayiti pou yon lek\u00f2l t\u00e8t an wo&#8221;\u00a0at\u00a0http:\/\/MIT-Ayiti.NET\u00a0. \u00a0 This online platform will function as a digital library \/ repository for the crowdsourcing, exchange and sharing of teaching materials in Haitian Creole (&#8220;Krey\u00f2l&#8221;) in all disciplines at all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12635,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634\/revisions\/12635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}