MusicTeacherTalk

This made me frown. . . and then smile :)

Oh, Rush… Your ignorance is so amazing that sometimes I just smile.

The bottom picture is just as ridiculous and shameful as the top.

May you all have another typical day.

Team Teachers: Leaving the Paper Behind

This is so true.  My hard drive and my inbox are very organized (because I know how to use my search function very well).  My desk is not.  I hate the amount of paperwork that gets thrown around between teachers and students, among teachers, and between teachers and administrators.  I am not the youngest teacher in the building by any stretch of the imagination, and I live with my laptop.  Can we just have some digital copies of things?

1:1 device to student ratio is a great goal … the only way to really integrate technology effectively, but I have to be really patient with this.  I don’t have the budget funds to buy computers, and the district won’t support my choice of using Macs (I know…), so I have to buy one computer every year with fundraising money.  We’ll get there eventually.

teamteachers:

I’m sick of paper. Sick of photocopying. I have 150+ students and that’s a lot of paper, especially when I change my plans so often that so much of it goes to waste.

As part of the development of our new World Language curriculum, our department was given 5 iPads/teacher to pilot their use. With…

‘F’ … really?  I’d if the question were, “What does the acronym PEMDAS help us remember?”  Acronyms don’t really have definitions, though.  I think the sentence this student wrote as a mnemonic is as good as any other one you could come up with.  

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Vybe App

This new app is the “postman for music information, helping you keep up with the artists you love.”  I’m very excited to say that one of my own former students is one of the co-founders!  While it’s still in the getting-started stage (adding new artists and working out kinks all the time), it’s definitely worth checking out.

Well, I’m glad we’re still dealing with blatant racial slurs in the media.  Someone, somewhere thought, “I think this is a really clever headline.” Someone, somewhere is a moron.

Teachers, this is just a reminder that we need to educate our students about social justice even more than we need to prepare them to take some test.  How can you refocus your lessons with a lens of social justice this week?

Tumblr Teacher: Girl with a Lesson Plan: Teaching tip: Let kids take pictures of stuff.

So glad to hear that someone else is embracing the technology that is such a big part of students’ lives instead of fearing it. 

girlwithalessonplan:

I’m a big “example on the board” person. I have it set and ready to go, discuss it, and then it’s there for the kids as they do their work.

Today, I had an example of what a research note-taking card looks like (done on my awesome, super-size, wipe-off note card) with explanations for each part…