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Reflect and Connect: Three Blogs
Bridging Experience, Academics, and Ambitions
This is a section to share the connections you're seeing between TLC classes, your experiences, co-curricular activities, coursework, current events, and life in general.
It may help you to think of this as a BLOG SPACE.
Be sure to include at least 3 DATED ENTRIES in this section. You're welcome to use CANVAS DISCUSSIONS, in-class reflections, peer-review worksheets/rubrics and other course materials as you reflect on TLC experiences then connect them to what is going on in your life and/or our world.
Thierno meets Toure
at the October 10, 6:00 PM, IUPUI Diversity Reading.
Thierno read the award winning Rolling Stone essay "Kurt Is My Co-Pilot" by Toure, then attended a presentation where Toure discussed aspects of his 2012 book Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now.
In a reflect and connect post, Thierno could write about themes he noticed from readings in our literature class to discussions on stereotyping and micro-aggressions. He might also comment on the visiting lecturer in TCM who discussed micro-aggressions then connect her lecture to Toure's 10/6 comments on micro-aggressions. In addition, he could link to some of the videos shared in class on microaggressions. Making these sorts of connections across experiences, readings, and classes is a metacognitive activity: thinking about thinking. Making connections as you think about experiences, then sharing them in writing, design, visuals, and video/music engages multi-modal discourse strategies. This type of thinking places your comments and observations in conversation with discussions beyond the classroom, across disciplines, and on the internet. That's good stuff!
Watch Toure's
interview with Lady Gaga
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