Having music at your fingertips is a luxury that we take for
granted every day. With technology constantly advancing we are finding new ways
to store and listen to music. iPods, mp3 players, and Zunes are the most common
music storing devices now-a-days. It used to be cassette tapes and CD’s but now
we have found ways to store even more music and make it smaller and more
compact (iPod mini/nano comes to mind.) We can now hold 50,000 songs on an iPod
touch 64gb, 50,000 song!!!!! We also have the technology to search any song we
want thanks to Youtube, Spotify, or iTunes, and you can do this by simply
taking out your device and searching it. The amount of effort it takes to
search and listen to music has decreased so much. 20 years ago you had to go to
the store, buy a cd, buy a cd player then listen to music; this took so much
time and deterred many people from wanting to listen to music. Today, everyone
knows the popular songs, and giving music suggestions to friends has never been
easier! Simply search and stream.
In an
elementary classroom you can do a music show and tell day where the students begin
in music that they enjoy listening to and you can build a lesson off of
learning the structure of the songs the students bring in. Be careful though!
Some students may bring in songs that have curse words in it, you’d have to
ensure you listened to the songs or at least know the lyrics before playing a
random song in front of your students.
This is a really interesting spin to show and tell! I never thought of music from an educational stand point but after reading your blog I do see how it can help. Of course there are other ways at learning music structure but I think this way makes it fun and interesting for both the students and the teachers. The students will want to get involved and will probably even sing along!
ReplyDeleteMusic accessibility has definitely never been easier. It is amazing the capabilities of these tiny devices, which many people have and probably do not stop to consider the ingenuity behind the creation of these technologies. Though I must confess, I am an avid believer in the pleasure finding, possessing and listening to tangible music, such as CD's or vinyl records. Bringing in music to the classroom is always beneficial, whether it be as background noise while students work, as an artifact when studying a specific time period, or like your wonderful idea of students using music as a form of expression which they can present to their classmates.
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