In looking for ways to create a context in which humanity can find trajectories towards social change it is crucial to recognize the hyper-reality of today’s global audiovisual culture. The realm of the hyper-real (i.e., reality-based TV shows, Hollywood movies, Disneyland, TV commercials, free-market utopia and other excursions into ideal worlds) is more real than […]
Author: Tony Kashani
MEDIA LITERACY
There is very little contestation to the notion that media representations help manufacture our view and understanding of the world. This affects children and adolescents the hardest. A K-12 system of education must integrate teaching media literacy into its curriculum. How else can we in a multicultural global society teach our students about the ways […]
TECHNOLOGY & HUMANITY
Today we live in an epoch of highly sophisticated technological paradigm. From the Internet to the high-tech hybrid automobiles, which take us from one geographic location either virtually physically, we are in daily relationship with technology. In some parts of the post-industrial/post-modern world of privilege in places like San Francisco Bay Area we experience technology at […]
PERTINENT KNOWLEDGE & GLOBAL PEDAGOGY
To recognize and utilize what is pertinent knowledge to one’s inquiry is truly a problematic area as is often misconstrued by educators. At the center of this lesson we find the question of “How should we teach mutuality?” We must remind ourselves of the inadequacies of today’s education and keep that reality fresh in our minds for […]
PEDAGOGY & MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
Within the sphere of complex thinking, in the audiovisual culture, we must embrace Howard Gardner’s concept of “multiple intelligences.” The traditional IQ test is no longer a valid medium of measurement of a student’s intelligence. This idea is especially paramount in an audiovisual culture whereby movies, video games, and Internet graphics transmit ideologies and paradigms to […]