A thematic reading module includes music, reading and technology integrated into the classroom.
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LITERACY | A THEMATIC READING MODULE -- MUSIC, READING & TECHNOLOGY CONNECTION
It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing . . .
~ Duke Ellington
"Make everything as simple as possible,
but no simpler".
~ Albert Einstein
Integrate Literacy, Music and Technology into your classroom.
TECHNOLOGY
Screenagers n.
A demographic group identified by Douglas Rushkoff in his 1996 book Playing the Future. K -12 teachers, and administrators need to learn how to reach the students who learned their ABC's from TV and whose first learning experience comes from cable.
2007 Adults + Teens = Screenagers - switching songs on an MP3 is just as distracting to a driver as, say, dialing a cellphone. Drexel University research team -- led by Dario Salvucci, a computer scientist {1}-- concluded that switching songs on an MP3 player is just as distracting to a driver as, dialing a cellphone.
Integrate technology, music, and reading: make a webquest and celebrate unknown American Music Icons
Explore the impact on America made by the Unknown Culture Maker meet another unknown culture maker Joel Bernstein - Folk Ballads Library
The Role of Technology in Elementary Music Education
Technology and the Oral Tradition THE NEW CYPERPLAYGROUND
TECHNOLOGY AND THE ORAL TRADITION:
The New Cyber Playground pdf
© 1997 by Karen Ellis, all rights reserved
Published 1997 written for the first online conference by the NEA, hosted by ARTSEDGE, on Music and Technology.
The original ARTSEDGE URL's URL'S, where this was first published, are gone now)
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/vc/vcmain.html
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/vc/techrole/karpap.html
LITERACY
HOW TO BUILD A THEMATIC READING UNIT PDF FILE
CROSS CURRICULAR THEMATIC READING MODULE
Study Ties Mental Abilities To Interaction of Emotion and Cognitive Skills
With a Simple Tune, Students Improve In School
The Nation's Report Card: Fourth-Grade Reading 2000, released by the US Department of Education on April 6 2001, states that less than one third of the nation's fourth-grade students are proficient at reading.
The results also pointed to a widening gap between the best and worst readers.
MUSIC
Standards For Folklife Education
Indigenous Folksong Reading Curriculum
Indigenous Folksong Reading Curriculum Sample Time Line and Introduction
Use the National Children's Folksong Repository to collect your playground game songs and chants.