RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Rules of Engagement & Extensions to Our Computer Skills Basics

Unabridged Version of Lesson/Training

RBG on Computers, SDL (Self Directed Learning) and the Internet as Tools in Liberation

Abridged Version of Lesson:

RBG on Computers and SDL (Self Directed Learning)

MY JOB AS YOUR RBG SDL (Self Directed Learning) FACILITATOR / TUTOR:


* To help RBG teachers / learners identify the proper starting points for their personalized learning program and to discern relevant modes of examination and reporting back on their progress.

* To encourage learners to view Afirkan-centered knowledge and truth as both historical and contextual. To enable the learner to see value-system conceptual frameworks as cultural constructs, and to appreciate that they can act on their world individually and collectively to transform said constructs.

* To create a partnership with learners by negotiating individualized learning contracts for goals, strategies, and evaluation criteria.

* To be an inspirer and manager of the RBG learning experience rather than just an information provider.

* To help learners acquire the needs assessment techniques necessary to discover what objectives they should set for themselves.

* To encourage the setting of objectives that can be met in several learning domains, ie. cognitive, psychomotor and affective, and offer a variety of options for evidence of successful performance.


* To provide self directed learners (SDL) with objectives, learning strategies, resources, and evaluation criteria to guide their study, and academic growth.

* To teach inquiry skills, time management, problem solving, critical thinking, decision making, personal development, and self-evaluation.

* To act as advocates for educationally undeserved and mis-educated New Afrikan populations by facilitating their access to proper knowledge and objectively reliable study tools and resources.


* To help learners navigate, locate and negotiate RBG learning resources.

* To help learners develop positive attitudes and feelings of independence relative to learning, thus building self esteem, self image and self concept as Afrikan people.

* To offer resources and methods that take into account learner personality types and learning styles.

* To design and develop high-quality teaching / learning tools and resources according to Web 2.0 academic and technology trends and learner responses / feedback.

"Putting Africa Into the Computer"

Brotha Kwabena Boahen is a brilliant young African scientist who is conscious of the possibilities of the uniquely "African" contributions to contemporary science and technology. One of the key components of this "Africanity" is its nonlinear nature... its embracing of complexity within collectivity... using networks over rigidity in processing and informing. Watch this video to the very end to get an understanding of where Boahen is coming from... and where his ideas can go- IF we bring African traditional cognition into the 21st Century science & tech. Brotha Boahen's very last example of infusing "Africa" into Western technology and culture really helps to clarify where he's coming from... and how Africans and our descendants must move forward for not only our survival and development, but also for the survival and development of Planet Earth.-- Sam Anderson

Why you should listen to him:

Kwabena Boahen is the principal investigator at the Brains in Silicon lab at Stanford. He writes of himself:

Being a scientist at heart, I want to understand how cognition arises from neuronal properties. Being an engineer by training, I am using silicon integrated circuits to emulate the way neurons compute, linking the seemingly disparate fields of electronics and computer science with neurobiology and medicine.

My group's contributions to the field of neuromorphic engineering include a silicon retina that could be used to give the blind sight and a self-organizing chip that emulates the way the developing brain wires itself up. Our work is widely recognized, with over sixty publications, including a cover story in the May 2005 issue of Scientific American.

My current research interest is building a simulation platform that will enable the cortex's inner workings to be modeled in detail. While progress has been made linking neuronal properties to brain rhythms, the task of scaling up these models to link neuronal properties to cognition still remains. Making the supercomputer-performance required affordable is the goal of our Neurogrid project. It is at the vanguard of a profound shift in computing, away from the sequential, step-by-step Von Neumann machine towards a parallel, interconnected architecture more like the brain.

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AN INTRODUCTORY LEVEL OVERVIEW

RBG Street Scholar : Wake Up Everybody
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Important Note: Once you get deep enough into the school you will discover that it has been designed for us to create jobs for ourselves. In other words, the seeds of your individual and collective economic liberation are built into the curriculum. For what good is a so called education if it doesn't prep and provide for New Afrikan self-reliance. Such is a pre-requisite to self-determination, as the man who butters your bread feeds you stomach. And consequently dictates how you move. So make a contribution (words, cheese and / or deeds) to the project in the best way you can, as RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is Black History in the making.

RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is designed such that you can get anywhere from everywhere. This is to say, all three components (Radio, TV and Collage Proper)--each an independent learning environment in its own right--allows you to access the other components--

RBG CommuniVeristy is horizontally, vertically and concentrically integrated as is the case with the Afrikan Conceptual Framework--so the school doesn't just talk Afrikan, it behaves and should be navigated Afrikan ("Let The Circle Not Be Broken"). So on one level it really doesn't make a difference where you start because all 5,000 RLOs (re-usable learning objects) and media assets loop.

Please remember that RBG is a Think Tank, designed to ruffle feathers and elicit healthy discussion and debate. More frequently than not, we teach/learn by presenting media interactions that reflect conflict, semalies, parables, metaphors, analogies and oxymorons--that's what makes you think (we hope). Then we have lively and well informed group discussions revolving around the various messages put forth in the learning objects and media assets. Next we research the facts overlaying our discussions using the voluminous number of resources available in the communiversity's web portals and learning environments. Finally, each learner has the opportunity to fill our evaluation instruments on most of the 70,000+ RLOs (Reusable Learning Objects) and media assets that comprise the core curriculum.

Also I use a teaching theory called Overlearning. Just like one more frequently than not under learns a topic/subject by not appreciating all the relationships; presenting previous data along with new data solidifies relational overstanding. So if you have seen or heard or read something in another context--please--don't skip over it in the new application, if you want to catch on to the program faster.

This learning environment is not a blog of the in the traditional sense word, as it is specifically sequenced and a recommended starting point for those that are new to computers / Afrikan-centered education. We are also using a blog interface/ template secondary to its utility for fast updating and group comments, discussion and interchange with me as your primary tutor and facilitator.
The closer you study the school the smarter it and you will become. There is not one thing you will get from any other higher education digital learning program you can't get from RBG Street Scholars Think Tank--

>Study Guides and Strategies,
>Digital Tutorials K-12,
>High Stake Exam Prep/ Practice Test ,
>Dictionary & Thesaurus,
>Computing Dictionary,
>Medical Dictionary,
>Legal Dictionary,
> Financial Dictionary,
>Acronyms,
>Idioms,
>Wikipedia Encyclopedia,
>Columbia Encyclopedia and more.

They are all accessible from any of the 21 Multimedia-Interactive Core Curriculum EduTainment-Classrooms.

One other thing, all photos and clip art are hot-linked to relevant extensions and links and I provide a snap previewer with search capability to facilitate such extensions. Simply mouse over a link or photo to see a preview of it linked page. You can also then enter key words in the snap search bar for images and their home on the web that are above and beyond the curriculum proper.

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT:

BY KEEPING THESE RULES UP FRONT YOU WILL BE ON THE FAST TRACK OF THIS SDL (self direted learning) PROCESS.

(To receive the full educational impact of this multimedia environment
you should become accustomed to viewing learning objects and media assets in the full view mode)

To Jump Right In See:
RBG Core Curriculum Professors Classroom, Feat. Dr. Ani Marimba On The Afrikan Worldview, Virtues Of Maat & Nguzo Saba

Uhuru Sasa Means Freedom Now

Karibu ndani ( Welcome Inside )

Karibu ndani is a Kiswahili Greeting meaning Welcome Inside



Uhuru Sasa Means Freedom Now!
"Let's Start With Relevant Education"

The history of Pan-Africanism

Please be patient as this Home Page is heavily multimedia embedded and thus takes a few minutes to fully load (Believe me it's worth the wait). For future reference, if you intend to study with us, I suggust you set one of the individual classrooms as your home page (Tools>Internet Options>Home Page). This gives you more rapid access (you can also bookmark or add a classroom to your favorites).

THIS IS A TECHNICAL NOTES &

ORIENTATION CLASSROOM

Bare in mind that the photo-stories/videos and slide shows you see in this version are actually high resolution PowerPoint-Driven Interactive Multimedia Shows Available to Premium Version Subscribers:

Also , when you see text you can't read in a slide show or video it means it's not meant to be read in that asset/ learning object. But as you proceed foward with the curriculum the data will be revealed in readable form in another asset. This is how we build your overstanding of horizontial, vertical and concentric integration.
Our whole college is a presentation of:

THE CHOICE: OPPRESSION OR LIBERATION ?

Note: It is important to know, this site is most completely and best viewed from a high speed internet connection in the Fire Fox 3.0 or IE V7 browser with WinXP OS updated to SP2/3, Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is our recommended browser and looks real sharp with any of it various Black Themes . This is our recommended browser.

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RBG Street Scholars Think Tank
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HOW THE LEARNER /TEACHER GETS THE MOST OUT OF THIS CURRICULUM:

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RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is a basic and advanced studies curriculum that subscribes to the "Africentric Idea of Education" and will take the learner from G.E.D. to graduate level studies in the contemporary liberal arts;Including: computers & information technology, history and cultural development, religion and spirituality, sociology, political science, creative productions/ entertainment, education, economics and psychology--all horizontally and vertically integrated. Every item-- photo, text , audio and video is a learning object/media asset. The closer you follow the sequence the smarter the curriculum and yourself will become.

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Dr. Amos N. Wilson

RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Required Textbook:

RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK TANK takes pride in blurring the line between urban youth and young adults in the community and those in traditional colleges. We take pride in educating students of color from diverse backgrounds and thus, a major thurst of the school is to make null and void the repressive TRICKNOLOGY OF THE “THUGGISM-DOPE GAME-PROBATION-PAROLE-PRISON WAREHOUSING-SLAVERY BACK IN EFFECT COG” by providing a "Hard Truth Solider" education & entertainment (EduTainment) environment.

Our College is a Blak on purpose, scholarly education and a revolutionary propaganda machine

"Offered Under the Logo of Peace, Luv, Unity and Blak Power”.

Our Professors are our scholars, cultural workers, raptivist, revolutionaries and grassroots communty folk; including the likes of DPZ and Family, UNO The Prophet, Paris, KRS-1, PE/Chuck D, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Mumia Abu Jamal, Dr. Amiri Baraka, Bro. J of X-Klan, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad, Dr. Martin Luther Jr., Minister Malcolm X, Kwame Toure/formerly Stokely Carmichael, Dr. Amos Wilson, Dr Leonard Jeffries, Dr. Na’im Akbar, Dr Ben, Dr Asa Hilliard, Dr. John Jackson, Dr. Chancellor Williams, Dr. Mulana Karenga, Dr. Oba T’ Shaka, Rev. Khandi Paasewe, Dr. Molefi Asante and many, many more.

We must forewarn the perspective student/teacher; “this school does not serve to justify the status quo and / or maintain social control. Rather, by demonstrating that all things are possible for Afrikan people strapped with knowledge of self, based on the wide strides already taken by our ancestral and elder scholastic giants, it is an instrument for liberating social change and ‘New’ Afrikan Cultural Development", (“Functional Melaninization”)--By seriously studying out of these classrooms the result will be nothing short of Afrikan self and collective rescue, restoration and transformation. Your mind (brain circuitry /interconnectedness) will radically change the very mechanism of how it works.

Marc Imhotep Cray, M.D. (aka RBG Street Scholar)

October, 2006

NB: Please Read With Close Attention & Enjoy:

RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Rules Of Engagement