Evolution and the Necessity for Friction

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

Us: A World & Trace Taylor Production

Is this ethnography? The making of this film was extremely difficult. It takes the viewer from horror to the possibility of joy. I suffered a tremendous emotional downturn for the first four months working on those first three acts. While the two final sections pulled me back towards the living, it took another eight months… 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

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

360: in the Field and the Editing Room

Three months prior to the purchase of 360 equipment, it was necessary for our nonprofit video team to clarify our potential predominant applications of the medium. This helped us foresee to some extent what types of environments we’d be filming and the challenges those environments might pose. This clarification provided the parameters within which we… Read More

The Boca Ciega High School Human Rights Project Anthology, 2017

© by Community Leveraged Learning (2017) This project was incredible. I wrote a Human Rights curriculum and combined this with the effective writing curriculum I produced for CLL (Community Leveraged Learning), my educational nonprofit. Dr. AnnMarie Gunn at USFSP served as an advisor on the project and hooked me up with a ninth-grade teacher, Nicole… Read More

The Use of Myth in the Systematic Stratification of a Nation

If we are to understand how language plays a role in the stratification of the American human group, it is imperative that we look at several other aspects of American society and most especially that which relates to education. Read More

How to Catch a Fish: Another early Learning 360 Application Experience (2017)

The cool part of this Experience was that during the underwater shots we lost one of the cameras when the steel leader line broke and sent and sent it to the bottom of the channel between 8 and 10 feet down. My first reaction: “Did that just…” Then I texted my friend Louise. “Camera lost… Read More