Educational Podcast Analysis. Jessica Vandeventer. Description.

“Musical is a universal experience. With few exceptions, all humans perceive musical pitch, tone, timbre, and harmony. We listen to music to relax, to help us think, to celebrate, and grieve. Our emotional responses to music have been noted in literature, poetry, and drama. The power of music to evoke an emotional response is used by advertising companies, film directors, and mothers singing their babies to sleep. Early education teachers are familiar with using music and rhythm as tools for learning language and building memory. (Foran, 2009) Several musical melodies are used in grade school to learn information. Music is used in my math classes across the world to enhance the learning process of formulas. English classes use music help children learn prepositional phrases, adjectives, adverbs, noun, and etc. However, after most scholars reached a certain grade level, using music to achieve new heights academically became a technique of the past. Most instructors didn’t bother using music in order to help retain information. It was almost as if it was forgotten about. But, if music is so important why isn’t it allowed in most classrooms today? Many teachers are not fond of music in the classroom. To many, it is seen as a distraction. Is it the type of music a person chooses to listen to? Would it be different if the music chosen by

A digital audio file is definitely a digital tool and having it available for students to either stream online or download makes for easy accessibility for student use.

So why would they want to listen to a teacher talk if they can talk about something they actually want to talk about just as easily? When students are paying attention to their cell phones instead of the teacher, their grades will eventually go down, and it will be harder for them to get jobs later in life. Cell phones during school hours could really destroy the learning environment and many other opportunities.

Music can help students in many different ways varying from how theses students will succeed in society to the way music can help build these children's imagination and intellectual curiosity. She also brings up the counter arguments that teachers or parents may agree with. Which is how do you teach a student who can't hear? Darrow claims through Active learning and participation. She states many different strategies including Listening to music, Singing, Reading and reading music.

If we are allowed to bring our I pod in class students will not hear the teachers instructions. This will bring our grades down rapidly. Teachers will then get frustrated and overwhelmed. The effect will be every student off task.

Today this is a thing most kids want to do in class and that is to listen to music while in class. It helps people with ADD/ADHD concentrate, if they listen to music. There also is a statistic about music that you’ll later read on about. With music comes responsibility, like listening to inappropriate music or using your phone to cheat. So they should have to have their phone on the desk or put it in a cabinet.

It can help students pay attention to the work they are doing and possibly even learn more while listening to music. While, yes listening to music during a lecture will probably not exactly help with listening to it, it can help during times where the teachers are not talking. For example, while reading a novel, I find it helpful to listen to music in the background. It helps me from drifting off in the middle of a sentence. Also, whilst writing novels, I will listen to a playlist I made that relates to the book I’m writing. It will help inspire creativity and also help with the not drifting off. Additionally, many researchers have proven that music helps you focus. A lot of tips people give to students is to listen to music while studying or doing homework. While writing this essay, I listened to a ton of music which helped me stay focused on the topic, rather than things around

But what, you might ask, are these tools? In Lotta Larson’s “The Learning Potential of e-Books” the author brings up the topic of audiobooks. Audiobooks have the benefit of helping readers listen to the proper pronunciation of advanced level vocabulary words. For those with advanced reading skills, audiobooks allow students to take a moment and absorb every word written. In Larson’s words, “The students strategically accelerated or decelerated the narration speed and adjusted the font size of digit text to support their needs.” I find with controllable settings such as these, I can both easily absorb the curriculum and find it enjoyable in the

Some say that audiobooks are even better than physical books. Many people think that being able to multi-task while listening to an audiobook causes it to have more benefits. However, while people may be able to drive or clean when listening, multi-tasking may cause distractions. These distractions will lead to the listener missing key plot points to a book. People also say that when listening to an audiobook listeners are not able to skip over boring parts of the book, and are forced to hear the whole story. This is true, however, people skip over the tedious parts because they do not find them interesting. Enabling people to skip lifeless parts can lead them to undervalue the book. Many people also claim that children listening to audiobooks improve listening skills. However, it is better for kids have to have the physical book in front of them. This keeps them from getting distracted when listening to the audiobook. Therefore, without the books, the children are not profiting from listening to the

use. Eliminating extra noise helps students with hearing impairments focus on the class lecture and

Should kids be able to listen to music in class. some kids like to listen to music while they work for school. But can music help you think or improve your memory, or is it just a distraction? Scientists have been interested in that question

Music is a controversial classroom tool, some say it helps learning, others say it hurts grades, but the cold, hard truth is it really depends in the person and type of music being played. Often times students in the classroom are sorted into two groups, introverts, and extraverts. While pop music is played and the two groups are given a simple memory test, the extraverts do significantly better. Also, recent studies show that if students listen to music that they prefer, they will almost always do worse on tests and quizzes; this is because students will focus more on the lyrics and beat instead of the actual assignment (Dolegui). So, if a student insists on listing to music while studying they should try some smooth jazz or instrumental music.

The article “The effects of music on achievement, attitude and retention in primary school English lessons” by Koksal, Yagisan, and Cekic show the impact music has in the classroom. The Article claims “best learning environment is one that includes music” (Köksal, et al. 1897). Meaning music activates different parts of the brain that coincide with memory. Through an experimental study mentioned in the article shows music has a “increased achievement in English vocabulary learning” (Köksal, et al. 1899). Memory channels are activated and students are able to retain what is being taught through the use of music. Therefore the article suggests music is a method that can be used in primary schools to exercise the mind helping students hold onto what they learn for longer periods of time. The authors argue music brings out a different level of intelligence in the classroom. However the article fails to briefly describe traditional methods, other possible methods, and possible defaults of a music learning environment jeopardizing a overall well conducted study of music used as a source of education.

In school all across America we focus on remembering the facts, remember this, read this, and listen to this PowerPoint. The education system needs to shape young minds and teach instead of forcing knowledge upon them. Brains of young children are like a water balloon, it has room to expand for knowledge although, if you fill it to fast water will erupt or leak. Americans move fast, we believe the faster we go the further we will succeed. Despite these beliefs this does not work for students, to fast and to much water in their balloon will make it pop. All students are different, and have a different style of learning. There are a total of 7 different categories that all students fall under for learning they include visual, aural, verbal, physical, logical, social, and solitary (Lepi). As a result some students learn by working this groups, or using a song to remember material for an upcoming test. Others may like to see graphs to compare; and some comprehend chemistry better from seeing and studying a model of water. As a result of this diversity it is hard for many students to sit through a power point with facts to fully understand what they are learning. A study was performed using “Academic music” at Hoover elementary school in California. After 6 weeks of the technic of learning using music the students scored 50% higher on a fraction test then students at the same score using

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