For an interdisciplinary research project in the Internship in Human Learning and Development course at Georgia State University, students learn how to apply the Broad Model of Interdisciplinary Research. The Broad Model of Interdisciplinary Research is a method used for analyzing complex phenomena in nature, in society, and topics of interest in our daily lives. The significance of this IRP will expectantly share how graduates of Pan-African descent who are challenged with unemployment can lean innovative solutions to the market using risk averse processes for business and higher education at the time of the 4IR (Fourth Industrial Revolution). During the…
A practical way of exercising mindfulness includes my first morning thoughts upon waking should consist of having gratitude for the smallest things. An example of this is contained in savoring my sense of hearing to birds chirping early in the morning and being grateful for that experience. There are people who may not be able to have this instinctive ability which is overlooked on a daily basis. Gratitude creates easier processes to welcome logic that is outside of my normal box such as the benefits from learning a new language. We often indulge in speaking our native language fluently from…
The first week in the “Educational Technology and Africa and the Diaspora” course, there was a strange reflection taking place. The week made an impression because classwork was set to start near the celebratory date of June 19th which is known as Juneteenth in the United States. Some African-Americans call it Freedom Day. According to Wikipedia, Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. Despite enjoying the visual of expensive fireworks raging off like war cannons from people who visually have the same skin tone but with smiling faces, I quietly took a moment…
On my website under innovative hacks you will see previously attended Major League Hacking events which were freely hosted across the United States for high school and college students. Hackathons are a great resource for students to make friends, meet their future open-source co-founders, and build solutions using digital services from sponsors financially supporting the events. The exciting events have begun to go virtual however larger problems loom over some Pan-African college graduates as a Google search presents that some graduates will clash with employment challenges which may be their only path towards funding independent projects as a innovative entrepreneur…
“Being innovative as well as social in 2020 is like a desert safari where food chains are non-existent.”
- Laurence Wingo
This Guide to Acknowledging Cultural Dissonance in Exchange for a Colossal Opinion is written as a way to reinforce as well as question the knowledge gained in the Human Learning and Development program at Georgia State University. We’ve focused on memory and cognition as well as ethics in artificial intelligence. …
Laurence Wingo
I wore a tuxedo jacket to work religiously on my first coding gig. Now that I'm older, I know what a tuxedo jacket is however I'm still coding.
