Professor Lia Barlo, a liberal study at the University University of Northern Carolina Agricultural and Technical State, is ready to teach her introduction to the African American study class, as she always does: she kept a course together, mapped the assignment and Created a ticket account to create a ticket account to create. As much accessible materials as possible.
He posted A video on 20 January Welcoming his 35 students in the course. Until the next morning, it was sufficient in the algorithm of the Ticketkok users that 250,000 people had subscribed to him. Channel,
Within days, Dr. Barlo’s video inadvertently inspired a relaxed related network of black teachers, experts and material creators, known as Hilmantok University, a free – and uncontrolled and informal – HBCU, or historical forms of the country – or historical forms Take it to black, or historically Black College and University
In lectures given in the explosion of Tikok-Lambai, and in long sessions on Tikok Live, instructors are teaching classes in horticulture, biological chemistry, cooking and other subjects. On the ending end, the organizers say, there is an audience of around 16,000 registered users.
“I think it has been making it,” Dr. Barlo said in an interview in Greensboro, NC, in an interview in an interview last week, “You have accessibility, not only because of Tikok, but also people who do not have. Ivory Tower has the ability to speak in the Ivory Tower. And it is something that I think is both beautiful and necessary.
For information, hunger also comes in the morning of another trump administration. Dr. Barlo posted his video for hours after administered the oath to President Trump and determined to destroy federal programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Many academics are afraid of a trickle-down effect during education.
Dr. Barlo said, “I definitely feel that political time and environment prevails with a lot of controversy.”
Augusta, Ga. In a former mathematics teacher and a founder of Hilmantok, Sierra Hintar. Watched the original post of Barlo and the initial video inspired by it. “Did I wake up in the hillman?” He said that referring to the Hillman College, referring to the fictional HBCU depicted in “The Cosby Show” and its spinoff, “A District World”, remembering this, thinking, thinking that, thinking that, thinking, thinking, thinking that ” The Cosby Show “. A name of the movement was born.
Tampa, a pracharak and DJ Kandric Pringley in Fla, was also one of the thousands of ticket users who Dr. The original post of Barlo was stumbled. He is now the president of the student union of Hilmantok and about 40 content is part of a group of creators, who saw the opportunity to organize.
In view of uncertainty on the future of education policy under another Trump administration, Mr. Pranley said that a “social media university” can provide a place to provide a place for online circulating.
He said, “Education is getting limited, covered, silent and silent.” “This is a moment and a movement that can teach the public everything that they should actually know.”
Hillmantok organizers made one WebsiteComplete a course with a catalog and registration page, and started distributing regular updates on Hilmantok tiktok accountThere is a board of trustees and students governing boards; Many members of the two bodies spent long nights on the zoom, creating a formal structure for the hillmantok.
“We are march together to ensure that everyone has an opportunity for an independent and fair education,” said Mr. Pringley.
When Brandi Smith Dr. When he came to Barlo’s page, he was disappointed to know that the class was not really open to the public. Nevertheless, Ms. Smith, who attended Spelman College before graduating from Savanna College of Art and Design, followed Syllabus Dr. Barlo posted And by filmmaker Ava Dwargye began organizing a study session on his ticket page, including subjects such as the documentary “13th”; Songs This is “America” by Gill Scott-Heron’s childish gambino and “The Revolution will not be television”; An episode of the TV show “Atlanta”; And essay “Why don’t i vote“By web do bois.
“It was an opportunity to connect with black women at a level who actually talked to my soul,” said Ms. Smith.
For Andre Isaac, Worster, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Hilmantok presented an opportunity in the College of the Holi Cross in the month that he dreamed for a long time: using them Growing social media the following To share your passion for chemistry and teaching.
“We need science literacy in our country,” Dr. Isak said. “I want to share people in understanding molecules that are in skin care products that they are using, and when we say the word acid, what does it mean at the molecular level?”
Dr. Aizac said that around 1,000 people signed in through Zoom or Tikok, which listens to its first HillMantok Lecture. Since then, around 3,000 people have registered On their website To obtain the course content, recorded lectures, text plan, homework assignments and even quiz, a discussion channel on an open-source textbook and discord, The messaging app.
Dr. Isacs were particularly excited about helping demolish a subject, often seen as inaccessible.
“College tuition is prohibitually expensive nowadays, so many people cannot reach it, especially a lot of black and brown children,” he said. “If they just understood what it looks like in the context of the material or perhaps one leg is up, it would help to create their flexibility and their enthusiasm about the subject.”
Orlando, Fla. K many people see as a high obstacle for entry to change the perceptions of another subject: Horticulture.
“Every time I learn something, I want to teach it to other people,” he said. Referring to his career as a pharmacist, “I do a lot while working,” but it is a passion. It does not feel like a task. ,
Ms. Kinsler taught herself in the garden during the epidemic, attracted hundreds of thousands of followers, with directed video she posts under her social media handle, FarmSo when the hillMantok bounced, a gardening 101 square looked a natural fit.
His First HillMantok Video About 1,000 times within 30 minutes and over 1 million were received by the next day. She received such enthusiastic response to her hillmantok class, said that she is working on a textbook. His approach is simple: how to teach people how the garden in the space available.
Hilmantok came on a “decisive turn point”, Ms. Kinsler said, especially when it comes to the effect of politics and disintegration.
“People are a little afraid of what education will be seen in future – will we be able to learn these things?” He said, the recent federal tiktok ban increased that fear. (Mr. Trump said that he stopped working in this month before coming back to life after signing an executive order to delay the enforcement of the ban.) “It seemed that someone felt that someone away from us Taken the piece, “He said.
Now, with Hillmentok, people are taking a different view, Ms. Kinsler said: “Let me get a notebook. I want to learn. “
Or in the case of Ms. Kinsler, fresh plant instead of a pen and paper.
For her final project, followers of Ms. Kinslar’s Hilmantok course will be asked to show the fruits of their labor: a video of her finished garden.
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