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What are the biggest problems with common teacher professional development practices and how can they be fixed? Aristotle said: “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Sometimes I feel like our leaders miss this target when planning and facilitating professional development for educators. We are individuals. We learn differently from each…
The following is a guest post authored by Guy Swinton, Music Teacher at Kings Priory School in Tynemouth, Northern England. I was asked to produce resources for music teachers to deliver in their schools to tie into the up-coming Great Exhibition of the North, a UK-wide celebration of the North of England. The exhibition centres around…
Soundtrap Booth Booth #2611 Monday: 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday: 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Wednesday: 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. AV Creative Apps Party! Monday: 9-11 p.m. Location: The Underground RSVP here Google Partner Demos Booth 1602 Monday: 3:30-5:30 p.m. Wednesday: 12:30-2:30 p.m. BestBuy for Education Partner Demos Booth 1436 Tuesday: 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Wednesday: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Podcasting Presentation…
The creativity passport challenge is a fun way for educators to experience new products while earning a chance to win over $6,000 for in products at #ISTE18. What do this year’s six creativity passport companies have in common? 1. They are loved by forward-thinking educators, and 2. They support a shared goal of igniting creativity, student voice…
This email came through our inboxes recently and we just HAD to post! Dear Meredith & Audrey, I thought I’d share this with you. This is our first big original songwriting collab project using Soundtrap. I had a group of 7th & 8th graders working on a track for Ben Kelly’s Project S.U.S.T.A.I.N album and they…
Exciting News in the EDU World! A partnership between Musical Futures and Soundtrap combines individualized learning approaches and game-changing music technology to deliver student-centered classroom experiences. Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3801950#ixzz5Hb96jTil
The following resource has been provided by the AMAZING Martin Urbach. Percussionist Martin (pronounced mar-TEEN) Urbach is a Latinx immigrant, educator, activist, and composer. His work in the classroom is based on facilitating liberated spaces for youth to fall in love with music and to promote social justice through music making. He is currently a doctoral…
PUSH FOR PODCASTING. Educator Josh Allen (pictured above), a tech integration specialist at 3,000-student Lewis Central schools in Iowa, has broken the standards barrier and helped teachers put students in control of their learning. “Podcasts push students to collaborate in authentic ways and to have academically rigorous conversations around text,” he says. In this article, Josh explains…
Soundtrap was recently used for collaborative game production at the National Girls Learning Code Day. In this collaborative experience, learners worked together to build a video game that addresses a social or environmental issue and works towards change. Learners explored the game industry by experiencing what it’s like to work on different project teams, within a…
Guest post by David Dover. David is the Music Technology Instructor at North Gwinnett Middle School in Sugar Hill, GA. He is a veteran music educator in instrumental music and music technology for 20+ years, a music technology standards revisionist for the state of Georgia and Gwinnett County, and a contributor to the music technology…