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Re: We are all Rock Stars! #edtech

DavidDMuir — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:15:22 -0000

...Oops! I hit a character limit with the last comment! My second point, for what it's worth, is when I was a teenager, music was an event, at least in part because my funds were limited and so my access to music was limited. Today, music is cheaper (relatively speaking) and ubiquitous - that's bound to affect my attitudes to it.

How is this relevant to your discussion about education? Hmm! Not sure... But I suspect in the same way I would love to still the passion I had for music as a teenager, I would love to have a passion for education that leads me to write about it and think about it in the way that Heppell et al do! Not so much "Hope I die before I get old" as hope I stay passionate as I get older!

Re: We are all Rock Stars! #edtech

DavidDMuir — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:08:20 -0000

It may be that the associations and memories of our teenage years ae the reason for this strong association but I've always assumes it was to do with available time and accessibility. As a teenager I got a new album, I put on the headphones, cranked up the volume and read every word on the album sleeve while listening to the album over and over again. I invested time in listening, I mean really listening to those albums, until I knew them backwards! I still remember standing in the queue at the Glasgow Apollo to get tickets to see Rush; someone had a cassette recorder with them and was playing the new album and everyone in the queue was singing along - matching every vocal tick and flick that Geddy produced. We ALL knew the album backwards. As a teenager, I had the time to do that. All to often now, music is a background to something else: driving, or marking, or cooking dinner

Re: And We’re Back…

DavidDMuir — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:36:52 -0000

I think this post should be required reading for the student teachers that are starting at Jordanhill next week. Certainly I'll be showing it to the new set of Computing teachers.