Literacy Culture and Language Education

 🧠💬 Teaching Deepfakes, Disinformation, and Digital Citizenship in an ESP Course 🇰🇷🎓 Last semester in my university-level English for Specific Purposes (ESP) class for Administrative Welfare majors , we tackled the timely issue of deepfakes and misinformation —a critical topic especially relevant to future public servants in South Korea. We used the article “ Deepfakes: How to empower youth to fight the threat of misinformation and disinformation ” as a springboard. The lesson focused on building vocabulary, improving comprehension of authentic texts, and fostering meaningful discussion around real-world challenges. 🔎 Lesson Highlights: Scaffolded reading support : We broke down the introduction’s structure and analyzed how hyperlinks can replace sentence volume while increasing credibility. Text mapping : Students learned to track how the article moved from outlining problems (e.g., technological inadequacies, political manipulation, financial & sexual exploi...

Welcome Maria H. Lisak, EdD's Portfolio -  Rooted in teaching, shaped by design, and guided by culture, my work bridges disciplines and invites deep connection. I design for transformation through authenticity, risk-taking, and reflection. I build frameworks that thrive in uncertainty and evolve with context. I create space for quiet thinkers, bold collaborators, and reluctant risk-takers to grow together. I cultivate learner ownership through guided freedom, shared goals, and mutual accountability. I bring structure and soul to suboptimal environments, using design as advocacy. I nurture learning as a meditative, collaborative, and cathartic adventure. I honor lived knowledge, emergent insight, and systems thinking as cornerstones of meaningful education. In my early years teaching English for Specific Purposes in South Korea, I walked into a classroom with no Wi-Fi, outdated textbooks, and learners who had been told they weren’t “language people.” Rather than accept the constrain...