A lovely comment on my blog from David Sonnenschein, with some useful resources
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Julian Treasure
Jan 5, 2012, 7:50:24 AM1/5/12
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David Sonnenschein has left a new comment on your post "Teaching
listening in schools":
Listening positions exercise is wonderful, seems that children and
adults can learn so much about each other with this. I also loved the
TED talk so much. Your call to arms (or ears) at the end rings
strongly for me, and I will certainly refer others to this powerful,
clear presentation.
I've been developing sound games for quite a while with this exact
intention of enhancing people's listening, specifically children. One
game, Animal Sounds Memory Game, is available here:
http://www.avidpros.com/sonicstrategies/
I have a whole series proposed for educational use, and it would be
great to collaborate with you and other educators with this interest.
I also published an article on a new listening model called "Sound
Spheres" in The New Soundtrack, Edinburgh U. Press, (also in the
upcoming 2nd edition of my book "Sound Design") that has several
examples on how students can use this as an exercise to explore their
listening awareness. I'd love to hear feedback from educators on this.
It can be read on my site here:
http://sounddesignforpros.com/davids-interviews/sound-spheres-a-psychoacoustic-model/
All the best and keep up the good fight for good sound.
Posted by David Sonnenschein to Sound Business at 28 September 2011
04:42
listening in schools":
Listening positions exercise is wonderful, seems that children and
adults can learn so much about each other with this. I also loved the
TED talk so much. Your call to arms (or ears) at the end rings
strongly for me, and I will certainly refer others to this powerful,
clear presentation.
I've been developing sound games for quite a while with this exact
intention of enhancing people's listening, specifically children. One
game, Animal Sounds Memory Game, is available here:
http://www.avidpros.com/sonicstrategies/
I have a whole series proposed for educational use, and it would be
great to collaborate with you and other educators with this interest.
I also published an article on a new listening model called "Sound
Spheres" in The New Soundtrack, Edinburgh U. Press, (also in the
upcoming 2nd edition of my book "Sound Design") that has several
examples on how students can use this as an exercise to explore their
listening awareness. I'd love to hear feedback from educators on this.
It can be read on my site here:
http://sounddesignforpros.com/davids-interviews/sound-spheres-a-psychoacoustic-model/
All the best and keep up the good fight for good sound.
Posted by David Sonnenschein to Sound Business at 28 September 2011
04:42
Andrew Aker
Jan 6, 2012, 7:35:21 AM1/6/12
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David, Thanks for the great game! We will use it in our classes here
in China!
There is a small glitch I've just encountered though...
I'm on mac OSX with Google Chrome and not getting any sound on
http://www.avidpros.com/sonicstrategies/swf/memgamelev1.swf !
We will check it out with firefox and windows and let you know if we
encounter any other issues.
All the best,
Andrew
On Jan 5, 7:50 am, Julian Treasure <julian.treas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> David Sonnenschein has left a new comment on your post "Teaching
> listening in schools":
>
> Listening positions exercise is wonderful, seems that children and
> adults can learn so much about each other with this. I also loved the
> TED talk so much. Your call to arms (or ears) at the end rings
> strongly for me, and I will certainly refer others to this powerful,
> clear presentation.
>
> I've been developing sound games for quite a while with this exact
> intention of enhancing people's listening, specifically children. One
> game, Animal Sounds Memory Game, is available here:http://www.avidpros.com/sonicstrategies/
> I have a whole series proposed for educational use, and it would be
> great to collaborate with you and other educators with this interest.
>
> I also published an article on a new listening model called "Sound
> Spheres" in The New Soundtrack, Edinburgh U. Press, (also in the
> upcoming 2nd edition of my book "Sound Design") that has several
> examples on how students can use this as an exercise to explore their
> listening awareness. I'd love to hear feedback from educators on this.
> It can be read on my site here:http://sounddesignforpros.com/davids-interviews/sound-spheres-a-psych...
in China!
There is a small glitch I've just encountered though...
I'm on mac OSX with Google Chrome and not getting any sound on
http://www.avidpros.com/sonicstrategies/swf/memgamelev1.swf !
We will check it out with firefox and windows and let you know if we
encounter any other issues.
All the best,
Andrew
On Jan 5, 7:50 am, Julian Treasure <julian.treas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> David Sonnenschein has left a new comment on your post "Teaching
> listening in schools":
>
> Listening positions exercise is wonderful, seems that children and
> adults can learn so much about each other with this. I also loved the
> TED talk so much. Your call to arms (or ears) at the end rings
> strongly for me, and I will certainly refer others to this powerful,
> clear presentation.
>
> I've been developing sound games for quite a while with this exact
> intention of enhancing people's listening, specifically children. One
> game, Animal Sounds Memory Game, is available here:http://www.avidpros.com/sonicstrategies/
> I have a whole series proposed for educational use, and it would be
> great to collaborate with you and other educators with this interest.
>
> I also published an article on a new listening model called "Sound
> Spheres" in The New Soundtrack, Edinburgh U. Press, (also in the
> upcoming 2nd edition of my book "Sound Design") that has several
> examples on how students can use this as an exercise to explore their
> listening awareness. I'd love to hear feedback from educators on this.
Emm Quayle
Jan 30, 2012, 5:05:46 AM1/30/12
to Teaching listening
I wasn't able to get on the game for some reason, but i really liked
the paper.
I'm really interested in the the direct learning of listening skills.
So, learning about listening for the sake of listening, rather than
learning about another subject through listening. Although this is
valuable in itself, I think that if we are able to learn how to
listen in all situations, and to change our listening positions as
appropriate to what we are listening to (Which Julian talks about on
TED) we will be learning skills that are transferable over all areas
of life.
I really like the sound spheres idea and it is a good example of how
to change listening positions; what that feels like, what sort of
things you might experience and how that effects us physically and
emotionally.
If David is living in Edinburgh (?) I would like to meet up at some
point. I am edging forwards towards hosting listening workshops in
schools and would love to have someone to work alongside, or who could
offer advice etc.
Emma
On Jan 5, 12:50 pm, Julian Treasure <julian.treas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> David Sonnenschein has left a new comment on your post "Teaching
> listening in schools":
>
> Listening positions exercise is wonderful, seems that children and
> adults can learn so much about each other with this. I also loved the
> TED talk so much. Your call to arms (or ears) at the end rings
> strongly for me, and I will certainly refer others to this powerful,
> clear presentation.
>
> I've been developing sound games for quite a while with this exact
> intention of enhancing people's listening, specifically children. One
> game, Animal Sounds Memory Game, is available here:http://www.avidpros.com/sonicstrategies/
> I have a whole series proposed for educational use, and it would be
> great to collaborate with you and other educators with this interest.
>
> I also published an article on a new listening model called "Sound
> Spheres" in The New Soundtrack, Edinburgh U. Press, (also in the
> upcoming 2nd edition of my book "Sound Design") that has several
> examples on how students can use this as an exercise to explore their
> listening awareness. I'd love to hear feedback from educators on this.
> It can be read on my site here:http://sounddesignforpros.com/davids-interviews/sound-spheres-a-psych...
the paper.
I'm really interested in the the direct learning of listening skills.
So, learning about listening for the sake of listening, rather than
learning about another subject through listening. Although this is
valuable in itself, I think that if we are able to learn how to
listen in all situations, and to change our listening positions as
appropriate to what we are listening to (Which Julian talks about on
TED) we will be learning skills that are transferable over all areas
of life.
I really like the sound spheres idea and it is a good example of how
to change listening positions; what that feels like, what sort of
things you might experience and how that effects us physically and
emotionally.
If David is living in Edinburgh (?) I would like to meet up at some
point. I am edging forwards towards hosting listening workshops in
schools and would love to have someone to work alongside, or who could
offer advice etc.
Emma
On Jan 5, 12:50 pm, Julian Treasure <julian.treas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> David Sonnenschein has left a new comment on your post "Teaching
> listening in schools":
>
> Listening positions exercise is wonderful, seems that children and
> adults can learn so much about each other with this. I also loved the
> TED talk so much. Your call to arms (or ears) at the end rings
> strongly for me, and I will certainly refer others to this powerful,
> clear presentation.
>
> I've been developing sound games for quite a while with this exact
> intention of enhancing people's listening, specifically children. One
> game, Animal Sounds Memory Game, is available here:http://www.avidpros.com/sonicstrategies/
> I have a whole series proposed for educational use, and it would be
> great to collaborate with you and other educators with this interest.
>
> I also published an article on a new listening model called "Sound
> Spheres" in The New Soundtrack, Edinburgh U. Press, (also in the
> upcoming 2nd edition of my book "Sound Design") that has several
> examples on how students can use this as an exercise to explore their
> listening awareness. I'd love to hear feedback from educators on this.
Emma Quayle
Jul 27, 2012, 3:16:35 PM7/27/12
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David, that game is FANTASTIC!
Not only is is it engaging but also extremely funny.
It's amazing how much the sound adds to your ability to remember where the corresponding animals. I found that it made a slight difference having some sort of image, although it didn't matter whether it was a picture of the animal or of a sound wave. And although i was slightly faster when there was an image, i actually had less card flips when there wasn't a recognisable animal image. I did it from 4 - 1 and when the pictures started appearing i found that i became distracted and ended up doing more random and faster flipping than when it was just the sound.
I am developing some listening workshops to host in Edinburgh schools - you can see my blog for this at www.listeninglearning.wordpress.com I will post a link to your game and will also suggest it as a teaching material in the Paradykes project (see blog)
Cheers,
Emma
Not only is is it engaging but also extremely funny.
It's amazing how much the sound adds to your ability to remember where the corresponding animals. I found that it made a slight difference having some sort of image, although it didn't matter whether it was a picture of the animal or of a sound wave. And although i was slightly faster when there was an image, i actually had less card flips when there wasn't a recognisable animal image. I did it from 4 - 1 and when the pictures started appearing i found that i became distracted and ended up doing more random and faster flipping than when it was just the sound.
I am developing some listening workshops to host in Edinburgh schools - you can see my blog for this at www.listeninglearning.wordpress.com I will post a link to your game and will also suggest it as a teaching material in the Paradykes project (see blog)
Cheers,
Emma
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