It seems important to say this is not a complete site by any means and we all hope you will join in the conversation, contributing your own examples/lessons for using music in classrooms, as well as discussing the importance of music education itself.
Generally we hope people will add to this site through both this blog and the forums on each page as we see this project as a conversation starter and we mean to invite participation. We consider these pages a beginning, but we know there are so many more wonderful, innovative examples of music being used to facilitate and stimulate learning in many, many different and creative ways. We hope you will add those examples to this site as well as comment on and try those ideas and lessons provided by others.
It should also be said that we are certain we are just scratching the surface with regard to this notion of using music to enhance learning in one way or another. Hopefully this site, blog, and the forums will help us to delve deeper into the uses of music to facilitate learning. Finally, though this site has not focused on it thus far, we expect this will be a place to think about informal and nonformal educational opportunities and the use of music in those instances as well.
Generally we hope people will add to this site through both this blog and the forums on each page as we see this project as a conversation starter and we mean to invite participation. We consider these pages a beginning, but we know there are so many more wonderful, innovative examples of music being used to facilitate and stimulate learning in many, many different and creative ways. We hope you will add those examples to this site as well as comment on and try those ideas and lessons provided by others.
It should also be said that we are certain we are just scratching the surface with regard to this notion of using music to enhance learning in one way or another. Hopefully this site, blog, and the forums will help us to delve deeper into the uses of music to facilitate learning. Finally, though this site has not focused on it thus far, we expect this will be a place to think about informal and nonformal educational opportunities and the use of music in those instances as well.