by Carol Biddiss | Apr 18, 2016 | Innovations in Education, Music Curriculum, Music program
Do you know how to teach yourself music? Professor Lucy Green found out how popular musicians taught themselves to play their instruments. She discovered these five ways: They chose their own music They played by ear They worked by themselves and with friends The...
by Carol Biddiss | Apr 16, 2016 | Innovations in Education
From open-space classrooms to open university At the beginning of my career in 1970 I was lucky enough to teach in one of the first “open-space classrooms” in my city. Many years later, enrolling as a student in a Massive Open Online Course has opened up...
by Carol Biddiss | Apr 6, 2016 | Innovations in Education
This week I enrolled in a course with The University of Sydney. The Massive Open Online or MOOC is titled “The Place of Music in 21st Century Education”. In the information about the course, it’s designer Dr James Humberstone says: What do children...
by Carol Biddiss | Feb 17, 2016 | Research, Training for staff
Newborns have excellent listening skills- babies are musicians! It seems a wild claim but it’s true that babies are musicians in the sense that they are highly discriminating listeners and have better music appreciation skills than many adults according to...
by Carol Biddiss | Feb 1, 2016 | Brain Development, Preschool Music Lesson Plans
Children are social animals and love to see themselves connected. This drawing by a three year old is a fine example of how a child thinks. She has sandwiched herself cosily between the two adults. She is smaller but has a dominant place up high next to their heads. I...