Journal: Cultural Chords
Some reflections on the “cultural chords” conference. This a music education conference for teachers in New Zealnd. These are my brief impressions:
- Really sad to hear from teachers from christchurch. #gutted
- Awesome to hear from David Price. He had very strong, political things to say about national standards and teaching & learning.
- I hosted the Techno panel, with Clive Cockburn, Peter Lee and Stuart Wise. Clive talked about his music course. Peter showed what’s changed in Auralia and Stuart did a great job of demonstrating his iPad.
Technology (ios) is a major theme so far and David Price had a lot to say about social learning (social media). David is particularly concerned with
- “evidence-based” policy
- banning phones, idevices and social media access in schools
I was pleasantly surpised, as he barely mentioned Musical Futures – which I don’t think is that useful in NZ.
