Revolutionary Teaching: An Experiment in Art and Learning
Existing in the space between teaching (communication) and learning (embodiment), this work seeks to impress meaning in each learner’s reality through forms of access that may lead to empathy. Through the imitation of life, interactive methods, and the use of inherently disruptive aspects of the language of the classroom, it engages a user’s inner child-like wonder, encompassing all the senses, and sparking knowledge that goes beyond being right or wrong.
Guerillas In Latin America Interactive Live Documentary
The Experiment in Learning and Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Photo: UNC Center for Faculty Excellence
Project Background and Purpose
Designed to be a multi-sensory exploration to see if students engage with history more if there is something greater than text on a page or “words from a sage” by which to hold on; this interactive live documentary pushed into a university classroom giving students an ability to place a bookmark in a “living” historical record.
For this particular class, Michael and collaborator Dr. Miguel La Serna (of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of History) sought to make this semester long crash course into Latin American political armed conflicts during the cold war era an experiment in how to use the documentary art form as the vehicle for the content students learned.
The Project in the News:
https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/02/miguel-laserna-0212