Joining the WAYK community
For everyone either wanting to be, or already involved, in the WAYK community, we have some good news. WAYK player Jay Bazuzi, creator of the series of Palestinian Arabic WAYK… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Sharing Ideas
Revitalizing an Endangered Language in 8 weeks
Language revitalization doesn’t happen once; it signifies a necessary and continual process throughout the life of a language. Revitalization happens every time a new person learns the language, every time… Read more »
Turning Around the Destiny of an Endangered Language
We now live in a time where, in the next 5-10 years, we will see a massive die-off of language diversity as globalization and modern forces have their final… Read more »
Languages Are Dying, Right Now; Yet Still We Hope
In the past month, two critical members of the Hupacasath First Nation died; they numbered among the last who spoke the language native to Vancouver island fluently from childhood. Hupacasath… Read more »
The Fluency Paradigm
We seek Fluency, not Knowledge. We belong to a culture of “knowledge”, a culture of certification. The self-taught genius, the high-performing maverick, though we may regard them with awe and… Read more »
“Where Are Your Keys?”
We learn more, more quickly, and more deeply, once we redefine true learning as fluency, and play our way to getting there. Evan Gardner, a learning technology innovator, developed the… Read more »
An Interview with Evan Gardner
Listen to Willem interview Evan about “Where Are Your Keys?”.