Music

Today we looked into non-traditional music in the form of beat boxing. Tom Thum is an incredible beat boxer and I really enjoyed listening to him. To bring this kind of music to the classroom I think would be a big hit, in particular with the boys, and would be interesting to see the learners take on it and progression with it.

This just shows that music does not need to come from your normal school instruments, that music can be made with only your hands, mouth and throat.

Art

We were given a visual picture in this session and were asked to consider it in many different ways.

The purpose of this task was to get us to really look at the picture and take some time to focus on everything that was happening in it. To think about what it made us feel and if it gave us any inspiration.

One of the nice things about this task is it opens itself to so many different answers and possibilities, which is one of the ten principles of the Arts.

‘The Arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer’

(Eisner, 2002)

References

Eisner. E (2002) The Arts and the Creation of Mind, in Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach. London:Yale University Press.