What We're Reading: Redefining Possible in Online Education
Fri, 04/06/2012 - 5:12pm
Best-selling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin sees a revolution in the music industry. Here's how we're redefining what's possible in online music education.
Seth's Blog description of the "Perfect and Impossible" resonates with us:
"The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
"The music business was perfect. Radio, record chains, Rolling Stone magazine, the senior prom, limited access to recording studios, the replaceable nature of the LP, the baby boomers... it all added up to a business that seemed perfect, one that could run for ever and ever.
"The digital revolution destroyed this perfect business while enabling the seemingly impossible: easy access to the market by new musicians, a cosmic jukebox of just about every song ever recorded, music as a social connector...
What We're Reading: Learning Music Tunes Your Brain
Thu, 04/05/2012 - 4:32pm
Need another reason to get back to learning music? It's good for your brain.
Photo Courtesy of Northwestern University
"Just as we lift weights to build our biceps, playing music makes our nervous systems more efficient," said Nina Kraus, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University and principal investigator of its Auditory Neuroscience Labrortory.
The Neural Encoding of Music project reports more efficient aural memory for both a younger group of musicians aged 18-32 as well as older musicians aged 45-65 compared to nonmusicians.
Get Back to Playing the Music You Love
Wed, 04/04/2012 - 4:54pm
Director of global business development for ArtistWorks' music education online, James Taylor, talks with Slow Living Radio about how our education technology can help you learn music online and get back to playing the music you love.
What We're Reading: What's in a note? Fractions.
Tue, 03/27/2012 - 5:08pm
Topics: luis conte, Music Education
We're not the only ones that believe in the benefits of music education. San Francisco State researchers teamed up with music teachers at Herbert Hoover Elementary School, about 100 miles from our Napa studio, to rethink teaching fractions.
The result was "Academic Music," a curriculum that "helps children connect the value of musical notes, such as half notes and eighth notes, to their equivalent fraction size."
The Telegraph notes that "Students in the music-based programme scored 50 percent higher on a fraction test, taken at the end of the study, compared to students in the regular math class."
We're excited that the very skills our newest teacher, Luis Conte, will teach in his upcoming School of Percussion will also sharpen his students' mathematic abilities!
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