This article was the foundation for my “Creating Classrooms We Need: Educational Technology for Music Teachers” at several California All-State Music Educator Conferences in the past several years. Tempo – Vlm 45, No. 1
This MusicEd teacher is excited to be heading out to my first EdTech conference at ISTE2014 in Atlanta this weekend. One personal outcome of this experience: find common ground between the way 21st century students learn with the purpose and rationale in the way that we teach as music educators.
This spring I am lucky enough to be music directing West Side Story. If I were to take away the pillars of American Musical Theater from this book: Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and an apprenticing Stephen Sondheim (if one can even imagine that), you’d have just another book musical. But as you know, […]
EVERY Educator AND Administrator should attend a Professional Development conference at the beginning of their school year. I was offered such an opportunity as integratED SF 2013 by the Organization for Educational Technology and Curriculum came to town. As you can imagine, I jumped at the chance to acquire more tools of the trade to […]
I came across Hybrid High School last spring and was reminded of it’s importance after reading an op-ed piece this evening on Chicago Public Schools called, “Not Just Heartbreaking, Actually Broken.” Here are a group of individuals responding courageously to the needs of our time – Education. Second, there is a premiere, academic institution – […]
I sure hope fresh, new teachers are coming into the workforce with at least these areas covered! Presented by Terry Heick and shared on Twitter by my colleague Eric Castro, we present 36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do. I think we are in the middle of a truly, transformational period […]
I can remember sitting in front of our family’s first PC clone purchase assembled by the early 80’s computer company Leading Edge. I sat with the owner’s manual for hours trying to understand this new machine as I arrived at the DOS prompt after the boot disk loaded the OS into memory. Around the same time, […]
The initial reason to create my blog was after I had watched this TED talk featuring Sugata Mitra and his vision for schools in the Cloud. It is a good deal beyond innovation, and most certainly far beyond what many of us can conceptualize for current students and future leaders. Is there criticism of Sugata’s […]
I was director of the Motet Choir at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco, California during Holy Week in 2013. I had the opportunity to collaborate as music director in a Tre Ore Service on Good Friday that, in addition to a series of reflections on the Seven Last Words of Christ, projected famous works […]
