reading “Ain’t I a Woman” by Sojourner Truth
The ^video was one component of the first formal lesson I have ever taught in an actual classroom.
With a real teacher.
And real students.
In desks.
I wrote the word Pathos with a red, dry erase marker on an erasable whiteboard.
I’m still smiling.
The lesson partially sucked.
I moved way too fast through the material.
But.
I can still see their faces.
The students.
A work of art in the making.
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Reflections on Teaching, Learning, and Culture
I perceive culture as a collective sensory reflection of any given society’s environment that persists over time while also evolving through time. How culture persists over time involves both learning and teaching directly via formal and informal education. How culture evolves through time is a collective, but indirect response/reflection of how and what information is internalized. What the information comes to mean after internalization is reflected individually through contribution to society, be it an intellectual or artistic reflection. Because it is impossible to remove the individual from interpretation and therefore meaning, culture persists at the same time it evolves—however slowly that may be.
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Intersections Between Language and Photography 