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nsfarzo

The Brain on Music - 3 views

The Brain on Music Dr. Ellen Webber This article presents finding in a neurological study showing the effects different musical genres can have on our brains. The question I was thinking abou...

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started by nsfarzo on 27 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Renee Rodriguez

Music may harm your studying, study says - - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views

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    If you're studying for a test, putting on background music that you like may seem like a good idea. But if you're trying to memorize a list in order -- facts, numbers, elements of the periodic table -- the music may actually be working against you, a new study suggests. I want to find information on listening to music in the classroom, specifically the English 30 classes. I find the constant playing of Pandora to be distracting and I want to know if it's detrimental to the English 30 students learning, etc. So far I've found issues with listening to music and memorization, but not necessarily as it relates to writing workshops like the one I'm interning in now.
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    Let's try to stretch beyond CNN reports, which most often are quick and superficial.
Renee Rodriguez

Should you listen to music while studying? - University of Phoenix - 0 views

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    This article talks about whether or not you should study while listening to music and the types of music that can be beneficial when listening to studying. I'm still looking for information more specific to different types of studying and listening to music, like listening to music in a workshop setting or a lecture/classroom setting.
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    OK, did it mention writing, though? Find some research more directly related . . .
emleerl

EBSCOhost: Writer's block? What writer's block? - 1 views

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    This article introduces several methodologies in order to tackle writer's block. It includes eight different strategies that range from talking to admirable advisors for their opinions on your current writing assignment and genre to listening to music--how even psychologists agree that the creation of writing with the presence of music playing is beneficial to breaking down stumps in the road of writing. I wanted to see if i could find Cynthia A. Arem's book, Conquering Writing Anxiety, in the Library's Research database due to the fact that her book contains "self-assessment charts and strategies to break cycles of both writer's anxiety and writer's block" but this article seems like the next best thing :) I'll find more articles and books on writer's block this week as well.
Renee Rodriguez

The Reading Workshop - 0 views

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    This article, "Listen While You Work", discussed the benefits of listening to background music while working in a language arts class. The article listed the benefits of doing so which are improving retention and memory, an increase in attention levels, extending focused learning time and expanding thinking skills. The teacher gave few rules for listening to music while working but insisted that the students listen to the same CD from the beggining to the end of class and keep the volume down so peers arn't disrupted. Recently, it was discovered that the corpus callosum, located in the brain, increases in size when humans are exposed to music. Communication is then increased bewteen the two halves of the brain which increases learning efficency. 
Kate Ory

TED Blog | TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything - and he answered - 4 views

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    This online-community-sourced interview with Sir Ken Robinson (British education adviser, author, and speaker) followed his TED talk about creativity in education. He makes some good points about the need to cultivate creativity in students in all areas of education (not just those traditionally associated with creativity, like music or painting). This is closely tied to the struggle to create motivation in the classroom and addresses an attitude more than a specific set of strategies.  He tends to talk more about math and science than language, but most of what he says can be applied to our field as well. He connects the idea of "teaching creativity" to "teaching literacy", but I would argue to achieve true literacy, you need those creative elements that are so often lost in the language classroom.
Bill Xiong

intrapersonal influence - 1 views

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Rachel Worley

Willingham Article - 0 views

New types of technology are not neccesarily engaging just because they are present. The teachers needs to be able to use them as tools to enhance curriculum already in use. Technology can be overw...

started by Rachel Worley on 05 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
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