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Let Your Passion Drive Your Content (COVID 19)

(Re)Teach

English - March 26, 2020 11:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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Many of us are being driven to find/create content for the distance education format and I want to encourage us to allow our passions to drive our content.  My passion for hip hop lead me to develop into a spoken word poet, but more importantly, it helped me construct a curriculum that empowers historically marginalized students by helping them center their beliefs, culture, and perspectives in an academic environment.
Quick points:
- Pursuing your passions as an instructor allows the content to be meaningful to you
- Use your classroom to help students pursue their own passions and this will close equity gaps
- I use spoken word poetry to help students connect with the emotions of a social issue
Poetry Resources
Ant Black - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZrQbv9RO3o
Rudy Francisco - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR1_2lFXJI4 Yes, that is                                               me obnoxiously laughing in the background! He was the                                                       featured poet at an open mic here at MiraCosta College.  This                                               was before he got famous.
                           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3F0FfNiFss - This is his                                                performance on Jimmy Fallon
SocioPoetix - http://www.spitjournal.com/sociopoetix/
Def Jam Poetry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4cMD2lnHWU&list=PLnkh7-oYHNf-uU6Fz12dF3M5NTy8QgWmH
Button Poetry - https://www.youtube.com/user/ButtonPoetry
You can find my poems/music at https://brucehoskins.com/