2011
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank
By Marc Imhotep Cray, M.D. / bna RBG Street Scholar
RBG Student-Teacher Users Guide: A Basic Primer
RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK TANK'S PURPOSE:
THIS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM AND RESEARCH PROJECT IS DEDICATED TO FURTHER BUILDING THE HIP HOP--BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT CONNECTION BY INTEGRATING CONSCIOUS DIGITAL EDUTAINMENT WITH ASCHOLARLY SELF DIRECTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
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With strict attention to developing our students’ basic education skills in the context of
the highest standards of academic excellence, suitable for one to confidently sit for high stake exams(ie. SAT/ACT and MCATs, LSATs), we simutaneously advance the psycho- emotional healing and spiritual upliftment of our people by providing KNOWLEDGE,WISDOM AND OVERSTANDING of the historo-cultural, socio-political and psycho- educational experiences of Africans in America in away that RADICALLY REAPPRAISES EDUCATION from the pained and angry perspective of the oppressed black community.
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RBG Street Scholar Multimedia Articles Library (Over 400 Publications to date)RBG BlakademicsPDF Learners Manuals and Booklets (FREE) Download Center
RBG'sWeb 2.0 educational environments refers to a confluence of second generation
web-based communities and public hosting services
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including social-networking sites,web pages, wikis, forums and blogs
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which aim to facilitate academic collaboration andsharing between teachers / learners.
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The purpose of this brief guide
is to help the learner / teacher overstand what oneshould look for in reading, listening to, viewing and critically analyzing the audio, video,pictorial and textural contents of RBG'z various curricula. We mean for you to payparticular attention to the interaction between images, lyrics, rhythms and spoken word.You will quickly notice that RBG Street Scholars Think Tank flows seamlessly acrosswebsites and social networks. Presently, we have 20 websites comprising over 5000RLOs (Reusable Learning Objects) and media assets all concentricly integrated andlinked to hundreds of robust Afrikan-centered websites.The
(our campus map) enable you to access andnavigate everything without ever having to leave the college. The various integratedcurricula that comprise the communiversity represent learning assets which aredelivered via electronic dialogs between us (self-directed co-learners and expert tutors / facilitators of Afrikan descent). We all share a common purpose, depend upon eachother and are accountable to each other for the collective's and the school's academicsuccess. We are an interactive groups in which everyone actively communicates andnegotiates higher learning activities with one another within a contextual frameworkfacilitated by online tutors / experts / elders and ancestors. The entire school is aboutus, by us and for us--Afrikan Peoples Development / socially, politically, economically,educationally and morally.
OVERALL GOALS OF THE COMMUNIVERSITY (RBGBlakademics):
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To familiarize and expose learners to a wide variety of 19th and 20th century African-American leaders and our rich history of struggles for human and civil right,nationalliberation and self determination.
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To expose learners to a Concentrically Integrated African-Centered Liberal ArtsCurriculum--including, online mini-lectures, commentaries and interviews from ourauthors, playwrights, poets, activist and scholars--that will enable large amounts ofinformation to be comprehended in a relatively short period of time.
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To continue the development of an appreciation of Afrikan-Centered Educationpropagated through the Afrikan oral & musical traditions; including Afrikan Drums,Spoken Word / Rap, R & B, Blues, Jazz and Reggae.
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To draw lessons from the rich legacy of struggle and resistance to oppression withinthe African American community through critical analysis of videos, photo-stories,multimedia essays and PowerPoint shows and scholarly charts, tables, graphs and PDFdocuments; thus fostering socio-political activism in the learners own lives.
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