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Reaction: __**WE ARE THE WEB 04/01/08**__ The world wide web speaks for itself in its usefulness to the populate on a whole. The time that it took to move from a very exclusive network to one that is easily available shows the effetiveness and usefulnes in the future. There seems to be just one question of its longevity. Will there be enough space to preserve all thaose enteries? Assuming that everyone has adequate storage. And also will the best efforts of the individual be readily desernable among the vast proliferation of the populace? Looking at The Arts in particular, the wealth of information that is available makes it almost laughable that someone cannot find good examples of great performer of the past. But does this mean that when there is no elimination process, will the field of great performers be dilluted?

Reaction: __**How do you define Literacy in the 21st century**__ 04/08/08 The question is, what is literacy today and has it changed from that of the twentieth century. If the answer is, it has changed then we need to identify the components that will give a useful and productive exesistance. Personnally I feel that Literacy is the productive use of information. Even thou we have a great deal of information available to us today, a great deal is not useable to the average individual because he/she might not have developed the necessary skills to impliment then. This might be a 'fall out' of the now landscape that makes a person a 'jack of all trades and a master of none'. Therefore I think that Literacy is choosing a discipline and developing the necessary skills to impliment the best outcome of that discipline. So How do we teach Literacy of the 21st century? We teach our kids how to process and employ information, express their ideas in a compeling manner and ultimately be guided in the ethical use of this giganteous information.

With that being said we need to admit that there is a axium. To be literate is to be able to read write and do arithmatic.


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HOT TOPIC 5/06/08 Internet and Networking for E learning #567 DIGITAL MUSIC MAKING FOR THE 21st CENTURY COMPOSER Today’s avant-garde music requires a new and prodigious instrument. The way we fabricate objects and make manipulative items seems to be centered on principles of work that requires the least amount of effort. Therefore what has arrived in our time is an instrument that makes the composing of, what I would call “the random scale/melodies” music possible. The C-Thru- Music is a new thought up system that arranges the natural harmonics of the traditional scale in a manner that makes it easy to perform impromptu pieces on the fly. The interesting thing about this system is, It not only uses traditional knowledge of music theory but also develops a graphical template that allows the performer to play different sequences by just placing the fingers in a graphical pattern around the key board. Melodic passages are easily accomplished by moving the fingers in an up down or sideways fashion. Chords are also easily played by just learning what is called the triangular building blocks shape and from there adding more triangles to produce different chord structure in thei inversions. As an example the //major third is a simple triangle,// the //major 7th is two triangles sharing the same base// and so on. There is however one thing that concerns me. And that is, will this system of playing promote pleasing melodies for the ear that is used to tradition melodic structures, or are we now in a period similar to that of Mozart and Beethoven who changed the style and structure of their then traditional music. I would like for us to watch this short video clip of the keyboard in action. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuDEE_0qLw&feature=related A more comprehensive use of the C-Thru-Music controller. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7OeRkXWTtQ&feature=related I feel that in the future a whole new pedagogical skill system will have to be developed to facilitate the learning and playing of this new, as it were, Keyboard. Not withstanding, that each participant would have learned before hand the rudiments of music.


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This is great. I don't play guitars that well, but it must be something to just jam around on the instrument and see your work written out. I can see my boys having a great time seeing their compos... [|Continue] Tagged: [|music] Added a post May 13

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I would like to meet other teachers that are currently involved in teaching music to the special education sutdent. I feel that there isn't enough literature and resources that will facilitate the ... [|Continue] Started this discussion. Last [|reply] by [|Melinda Pongrey] May 14.

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 [|Permalink] Reply by [|Melinda Pongrey] on May 14, 2008 at 1:16pm Are you familiar with the KinderMusic program? I just recall my own kids doing things like building a musical staff that they could walk through on the ground -ie, making some of the 2-D instruction 3-D. While the program is geared for younger kids, I think some of the ideas in how to help kids learn musical notation and concepts were very cleverly done, and might engage older kids who excel in kinesthetic learning! Just a thought - ! [|►][| Reply to This]


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is a blog by David Warlick. His Blog written on May 27 talks about how technology has changed the way students learn tasks. He mentions that after one of his presentation a person reflected her experience in learning about technology on the web. In the replies to his blog many people agreed with her assesment and also related their own experience. I on the other hand feel that there is some merit to learning by 'trial and error' but I feel that Teachers were invented to take away some of the drudgery and possible nasty mistakes that can happen in the process.

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