As an educator, my goal information technology's to create a learning environment that fosters critical thinking and trouble-solving. To get engaged members of society, students need to empathise not only the data presented just the questions they need to ask based on the information they learn.I want students to value their own ability to retrieve creatively, and I encourage them to use novel ways to demonstrate their cognition.

Como educador, mi objetivo es crear un entorno de aprendizaje que fomente el pensamiento crítico y la resolución de problemas. Para convertirse en miembros comprometidos de la sociedad, los estudiantes deben comprender no solo la información presentada, sino también las preguntas que deben hacer en función de la información adquirida. Quiero que los estudiantes valoren su propia capacidad para pensar de manera creativa y los animo a utilizar formas novedosas para demostrar sus conocimientos.

Middle For Urban Teaching.

The Center for Urban Teaching (Cup) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and fine art to increase meaningful civic appointment. CUP collaborates with designers, educators, advocates, students, and communities to make educational tools that demystify circuitous policy and planning issues.

In 2020, protests for racial justice swept through the country and around the world. What are protestors' rights? What responsibility do police take to support or protect these rights? How can young people protestation safely?

In the winter of 2020-2021, Cup, Instruction Artist Hugo Rojas, and students from the Bronx Schoolhouse for Law, Government & Justice collaborated to investigate the limits, purpose, and power of protestation. Students created media, surveyed community members and interviewed cardinal stakeholders working on the result.

The squad gathered what they learned and createdIn the Streets! – a documentary that teaches others how to protest safely for causes that affair most to them and their communities.

Sentinel the documentary below.

https://vimeo.com/526202060

  • DataFace!

What is facial recognition technology? How does the use of facial recognition technology by the police touch New Yorkers? How do we balance public safety and privacy?

During the 2019-2020 schoolhouse twelvemonth, Loving cup collaborated with Teaching Artist Hugo Rojas and public high school students from the Bronx School for Law, Government, and Justice to explore the complicated world of facial recognition applied science and its affect on local communities. To investigate, students got out of the classroom to survey members of their community, interview cardinal stakeholders working on the issue, and create art to decode, rewire, and redesign the possibilities of facial recognition engineering science.

The grouping teamed up with Designer Stephanie Winarto to create this website to teach others what they learned about the effects of facial recognition technology on New Yorkers, present and futurity.

Cheque out the DataFace website here !



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  • The Bronx is Blossoming

    Who has admission to nature in the metropolis? Who decides?

In the summer of 2018,CUP, in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), partnered with Teaching Artist Hugo Rojas and public loftier school students from effectually the South Bronx to investigate these questions.

Students photographed the neighborhood, created stop-move animations, stenciled the area with spray chalk. They conducted community surveys, interviewed key stakeholders, and used WCS's, Visionmaker.nyc to create digital renderings of what nature in the Bronx could look similar in the time to come.

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  • Blunt Conversations.

In the summer of 2018, the New York State Health Section issued a report recommending the legalization of marijuana. This study came later Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city would ticket people caught smoking marijuana rather than arrest them. How do NYC's changing marijuana laws impact New Yorkers? Who profits? Who loses out?

During the 2018-2019 schoolhouse year, CUP collaborated with Teaching Creative person Hugo Rojas, Designer Hrudaya Yanamandala and public high schoolhouse students from the Bronx Schoolhouse for Law, Government, and Justice (LGJ) to unpack New York City'southward marijuana policies and the touch on local communities. To investigate, students surveyed members of their community, interviewed stakeholders working on the issue, and used moss to create artwork that explores dissimilar sides of the debate.

Students created a booklet to teach others what they learned about how the metropolis's marijuana policies impact New Yorkers, now and in the future.

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Reel Works Filmmaking

Reel Works provides free, intensive in-schoolhouse and later-school filmmaking workshops for over 800 at-risk youth. Ours is the only youth media plan in the country that matches each teen participant 1-on-1 with a professional filmmaker-mentor. It's a powerful combination that unlocks young talents, unleashes young voices and changes immature lives. At Reel Works, we believe when students are engaged - learning becomes effortless. The procedure of filmmaking contains the disciplines of storytelling, literacy, critical thinking, technology, teamwork and leadership that young people demand to succeed. We empower young people to transform themselves from passive consumers to active creators of media.

  • PS284. The Gregory Jocko Jackson School of Sports, Fine art, and Technology. Brownsville, Brooklyn NY

  • When the Bullets Autumn. Collaborative Documentary Project. ReelWorks, Barringer Loftier Schoolhouse and Paramount Pictures

Urban Associates Schoolhouse for Media Studies.

UAM is focused on bringing out the best in all students' thinking so that they are able to attain at loftier levels.  UAM graduates are able to respond to the world past making choices that maximize positive outcomes for themselves and others.

  • Studio Art Class

UAM is focused on bringing out the best in all students' thinking and so that they are able to achieve at loftier levels. UAM graduates are able to respond to the earth by making choices that maximize positive outcomes for themselves and others.

  • Spanish Art Form

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