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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Trends: Lyrics Can Be So Hard To Get Out Of Your Head Whatever your take on 'learning styles' research (a topic that will be the subject of posts coming soon), it is clear that teachers are trying most anything and everything to get information across to students. Many are trying to teach through music...which is a trend I favor! Having said that, there is stuff out there worthy of nothing but the effort...while there is other stuff (like my post "History For Music Lovers") that is darn near professionally produced. While many such resources are free (thus the wide variance in quality), today I was introduced to a company that markets hip-hop music video-based lessons on various subjects/topics. I've only seen one example of their work. It is a tribute to the MLK "I Have A Dream" theme and is embedded below. I thought it was a bit edgy, but worth consideration as an instructional supplement. I'd be interested to review their other offerings. What are your thoughts? Can greater integration of music into instruction across the curriculum result in greater student achievement? Why have we under-utilized this powerful tool to-date? Have we? Should our entire curriculum (at least the knowledge base) be put to song?! I guess the question then remains the same: to whose song?! The video above is part of a lesson marketed by "Flocabulary: Hip-Hop In The Classroom." Click here to see their offerings.  Just for the record: I have absolutely no affiliation with this company. Posted at 2:10 PM Keywords: Trends , Pass It On Education Tools , Flocabulary 2 Comments |
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Isabelle said... Hey, subtle must be your midlde name. Great post! Saturday, October 29, 2011 3:36 PM |