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Short edited recording of a demand side theory class session


  Thursday 6
th, 2008




The first class was an exceptional representation of the natures of the struggle and principles involved in lifting pedagogy, in a rural small four year HBCU.

Over time, this class has begin to understand a new set of rules, both those that should govern the behavior of freshman college students and those governing the demand side learning environment.  As these students are all freshman, they are given time to mature as part of college policy.  This fact is openly discussed in all aspects, so the nature of the class shifts from mathematics to social philosophy and discussions and then back to mathematics. 

The complete set of problems facing the class is represented, as this is the purpose of he demand side principles.  The class started off with only three students, out of the 24 enrolled, and as the class period extended the class was to include six young men after 30 mins.  The audio then has its first "event" when the first young woman comes into class, an excellent student who is not generally late, but today was late by 30 mins.   The event is that the discussion in class anticipated her arrival.  This anticipation of events to happen begin to manifest as the class time matured into an event that was to involve the "noisy" class next door. 

The nature of this lecture starts off with a 6 min discussion of the nature of the Native American "Old Way", and thus the various powerful events in this class come to draw in the environment and to create a demonstration of the full nature of demand side pedagogy.