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The Musical Family

The Musical Family

The musical family is enjoying practicing the Language of Music. Fun 🙂

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The Meaning of Music

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Michael Tilson Thomas is giving a great overview of the meaning of music as an emotional language and channel of expression.

"...you know all that you need to know, you can start anywhere..."

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African Music Tradition, a talk by Alfred Ladzekpo

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Alfred Ladzekpo, a master drummer from the Ewe tribe in Ghana and a Prof. of music in Cal Arts (USA), is talking about his music tradition. He is referring to music as a language, learning through listening , social aspects, improvisation and much more... BigEar has much respect.

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Game Design: The Key to Education?

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"Imagine a learning environment where students engage core principals using gameplay, solve problems through team-based collaboration, and use gaming systems in place of standardized textbooks. Is our education system ready for that? Do we have a choice?"  By Chris Riedel


http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/02/07/game-design-the-key-to-education.aspx

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Educational Game Design model

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Barbara Chamberlin, with the NMSU Learning Games Lab, shares the Educational Game Design model developed at NMSU.

The educational development studio involves content experts and game developers in their game design process, also employing a rigorous user testing process throughout development.

In this presentation, she explains the pre-development work they do in working from broad educational objectives, forming team, immersing team members in both the content and game design, and guiding questions for refining educational objectives and driving game development.