NADA/UCLA Film Project #2

This film is a larger work compiled of 12 smaller works: Ethnographic stories from Master practitioners, Clinicians, mental health professionals, etc. Read More

The Contrast-Comparison Paper

To categorize your facts is to put each fact into a group of similar facts and name the group for the kinds of facts it has in it, e.g., all the facts about origins in a group (folder) labeled Origins or evolution and taxonomy facts in a group (folder) labeled Evolution & Taxonomy, all those about physical characteristics in a group (folder) labeled Physical Characteristics, those on
behaviors in a group (folder) labeled Behaviors, etc. Read More

The Role of Editor in Arts-Based Research: Influence and Mitigation of Influence Through Editorial Choices

This video was a joint effort with Dr.Charles Vanover (USF) and Bob Devin Jones (and many others named in the video) as part of an arts-based qualitative inquiry into teaching and learning experiences in Chicago Public schools. The video is based on a stage dramatization of one teacher’s interview transcript (Vanover, 2018). The performance script… Read More

Conversation w/ Dr. Sbaitso

At the end of a long conversation with Dr. Sbaitso, an early version of interactive computer intelligence demonstrating its early-stage sentience, I got an interesting final response: “You are going to regret it.” I immediately thought, what exactly is our own behavior teaching this evolving young intelligence? Are we teaching it to curse the synthesized… Read More

The Traits of a Pedagogy of Access

Connections substantiated by evidence exist between profit, access, skin color, and socioeconomic status. Substantiated too by qualitative and quantitative data both historical and current, are the relationships between education and access, access and political voice, and political voice and social justice. For much of modern human history, the application of education as a means of… Read More

A Perspective Identity

I came from “dirty” “mixed-blood.”  I’ve been hungry most of my life. All I ever knew was hard.  But before, there was Cara.  It was all I could do to wait for the lunch bell.  She lingered across the field, by the wild honeysuckle that hung from the live oak tree.  She came from Georgia.… Read More

Technology and Field Applications for Education

The 2nd annual 2019 Science and Arts Technology Application Workshop presented us with several challenges honed by last year’s event.  We loved the Nikon KeyMission 360, but found the underwater lens compromised the experience when viewing on our Class VR stand-alone headsets.  A visible thick black lens frame cut the view into sections and created… Read More