Monday, 26 November 2012
Gangnam Style
So this is a video that popped up on my facebook over the weekend. It is a symphonic band version of a worldwide hit song "Gangnam Style" performed by Seoul University in Korea.
I think that arranging a hit song for your own band to play will give your students more dedicated and have a pure fun in both rehearsing, and performing!
Now, the question is.....how to arrange the song and put it onto papers for the students to play off of.
I will answer that question on Wednesday AFTER my presentation in class!! So, until then, hold your pants up! and enjoy the video!!
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Creativity
I watched a Ted Talks about schools killing creativity in our students.
In the video, Ken Robinson addresses that everywhere you go around the world, there always is a hierarchy where Language Arts and Mathematics are at the top while Arts is at the bottom. Main reasons for schooling and the goals for the students are the entrance to the university. In order to do so, the students are so focused on what are required to enter into the university. These kids are being taught in a way that the mistakes are the worst things that you could ever make. Ken, then says that if you are not prepared to be wrong, you cannot come up with the original things for yourself.
Watching this video, it made me think a lot of the education system back in Korea, my homeland, and compare it to the Canadian education system. I remember that the main reason why my parents brought me over to Canada is to have me and my brother to be in a better education system. The education system in Korea is driven toward university entrance and earning a degree. Students in middle and high school go to school from 7am-7pm, then off to out-of-school academy until midnight where you learn the future materials to become the best in there class and in school, then to home to do homework till 3-4 in the morning, then start the day again just a few hours later. My parents, who have gone through this "education hell"-as they would refer to, did not want me and my brother to go through the same thing. Coming to Canada, I was able to express my own thoughts, not stressing out about the marks I get, and for most, able to run outside just like what children should be doing instead of sitting in front of the desk all day long.
But given that I was educated in the Korean education system for half of my public school career, I still think that being creative is the hardest thing. Give my any math problems, I will enjoy solving them, but give me any artistic things that I have to create my own, I find it very hard. Ironically, I major music, where I have to create my own art.
Ken Robinson says "creativity is as important as literacy in education and we should treat it with same status"
As music educators, we must not fall into trap of telling that what is right or wrong, we must let them make their own arts, support and enhance their creativity.
In the video, Ken Robinson addresses that everywhere you go around the world, there always is a hierarchy where Language Arts and Mathematics are at the top while Arts is at the bottom. Main reasons for schooling and the goals for the students are the entrance to the university. In order to do so, the students are so focused on what are required to enter into the university. These kids are being taught in a way that the mistakes are the worst things that you could ever make. Ken, then says that if you are not prepared to be wrong, you cannot come up with the original things for yourself.
Watching this video, it made me think a lot of the education system back in Korea, my homeland, and compare it to the Canadian education system. I remember that the main reason why my parents brought me over to Canada is to have me and my brother to be in a better education system. The education system in Korea is driven toward university entrance and earning a degree. Students in middle and high school go to school from 7am-7pm, then off to out-of-school academy until midnight where you learn the future materials to become the best in there class and in school, then to home to do homework till 3-4 in the morning, then start the day again just a few hours later. My parents, who have gone through this "education hell"-as they would refer to, did not want me and my brother to go through the same thing. Coming to Canada, I was able to express my own thoughts, not stressing out about the marks I get, and for most, able to run outside just like what children should be doing instead of sitting in front of the desk all day long.
But given that I was educated in the Korean education system for half of my public school career, I still think that being creative is the hardest thing. Give my any math problems, I will enjoy solving them, but give me any artistic things that I have to create my own, I find it very hard. Ironically, I major music, where I have to create my own art.
Ken Robinson says "creativity is as important as literacy in education and we should treat it with same status"
As music educators, we must not fall into trap of telling that what is right or wrong, we must let them make their own arts, support and enhance their creativity.
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