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2006-05-18 John Jackson<\/a>
Originally uploaded by royblumenthal<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n

John Jackson<\/a> is a musician in London, and one of the photographers who makes his work available free of charge on stock.xchange<\/a>, an amazing online photo archive.<\/p>\n

All of the images I use in my creativity seminars come from there.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’m delivering a pretty challenging workshop to a bunch of teachers in Soweto, a suburb south of Johannesburg. The teachers belong to an organisation that educates adults and youth who are not in school. <\/p>\n

They’ve got a whole bunch of schools situated all around Soweto.<\/p>\n

My job tomorrow is to help motivate them, and to teach them how to bring fun and creativity into their classrooms.<\/p>\n

In South Africa, this type of adult education comes as a result of apartheid. The educational system in the old South Africa was disgustingly aimed at under-educating black citizens, thereby creating a subservient under-class. The people in these schools have had education plucked away from them. Now they want to learn properly.<\/p>\n

Phshew.<\/p>\n

The picture of John’s I’m using illustrates a concept in the section about how adult learners are different from normal school kids. Learning ability changes with the various age-stages of adulthood. John’s pic shows a group of Arabic men spanning all the generations.<\/p>\n

I offered John a portrait of himself in return for the fact that he so freely gave his photo to the internet community.<\/p>\n

This drawing was made using Alias Sketchbook Pro 2.0 on a Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc.
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Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2006-05-18 John Jackson Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. John Jackson is a musician in London, and one of the photographers who makes his work available free of charge on stock.xchange, an amazing online photo archive. All of the images I use …<\/p>\n

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