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[vaqueropanda-blog]

I definitely don’t need music to concentrate which I’m writing if anything it distracts me from my thoughts and I end up sitting there trying to remember what I was about to write.

Bianca Sanchez

This is a supplement to the last post I made. In this context, the author had interviewed a friend of hers and asked about her experience with doing homework and listening to music.  Again, you can’t necessarily force yourself to listen to music to be creative. Whatever works for you is fine as long as you have some sort of source to help you tap into that creativity (*legal* sources). Some people listen to music, others require silence. Everyone is different in the sense of how they tap into their creativity pool.

[vaqueropanda-blog]

If you grew up in a home that was noisy and are used to tuning things out, this could be a way to give you a sense of normalcy as you write. On the other hand, listening to music that you enjoy, like soft rock, classical or even hip-hop could help to improve your focus as you write.

Cameron Mackey

You can’t actually force yourself to listen to music. The sound of total silence works as much as listening to your favorite music.I know a friend of mine can’t write a single sentence on her lab report without total silence. As for me, I can work in both quietness and blissful joy to my ears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ybFVYg2no

This is part of what I listen to when I concentrate

[vaqueropanda-blog]

The more you use the same songs, the more likely they will continuously trigger the inspiration you are looking for. Your brain will automatically associate certain songs with opening up your creativity

Cameron Mackey 

The key to this is repetitiveness. Much like a person’s muscle memory when they work out, listening to the same songs in a playlist or an album can put the listener into a new perspective. By learning and memorizing the lyrics to a song, it can allow the reader to rhetorically interpret the lyrics and translate the rhetoric to however the listener wants to hear.

[vaqueropanda-blog]

#SmoothJazz

Hey out there! Before I start, I want to make a small disclaimer as to why I’ve been absent for a while. I’ve been going through some very harsh, personal issues that I don’t wanna disclose. However, there’s no excuse for me to be late with my assignments and I apologize for keeping everyone here waiting.

With that said, this post may be my final #Campaign project for this course, but I may return in the future! I want to thank my instructor Professor McGregor for getting me this far in my journey to become a better writer. I also want to thank my fellow classmates for putting up with me for this past month that we had this course :) Today, I’m gonna go over how music can influence your creativity. Sarah Morin, classmate and author of the paper “The Creativity of Music”, has done research on if music influences your creativity. For one last time (maybe), I will dig deep and explore how this research goes.

[a01129-blog]

Young people are constantly bombarded with advertisements, social media post, movies, billboards, and they need the media literacy skills to help understand the messages that these types of media are sending. Once they are able to look at media this way it can lead to improvements in critical thinking skills, and overall improvement in literacy.

Steve Buentello 

While this is true, such initiatives such as the national association for media literacy to provide educators with resources as well as training to improve the level of media literacy of the students. At a collegiate level, universities such as Temple University and the University of Rhode Island are working with K12 teachers to develop curriculum as well as conduct the research to uncover the value of media literacy on a students’ success.

[a01129-blog]

Teaching media literacy in today’s curriculum can be very benificial, just about every student uses the internet every day in some way shape or form

Steve Buentello 

Being in the 21st century, a society where a majority of an individual’s life is centered around technology, including young individuals, it would only be logical for educators to adapt the new competencies created by a society where technology is a primary source for information as well as communication. 

[a01129-blog]

Most young people this day in age get their information through a plethora of media and system technologies. It is through these mediums that schools should be trying to capitalize on to teach students literacy skills.

Steve Buentello

As a student, I believe this is true, one example is the way this class is conducted. The professor is able to provide students with a module such as the hasthag compaign, through which the student uses a medium such as tumblr to learn how to improve one’s own literacy skills.

[carloscr3-blog]

“ Sharing your works publicly on social media will benefit for you because of the reviews and comments. Constructive criticism is always a good thing!”

-- “Social Media and Literacy” by Alexandria N Badillo

One good effect we could get from social media is the knowledge acquired from feedback. Everyone can take advantage from social media by learning whatever you can from your favorite internet sites. You can learn new words or ways to express ideas. Also, the comments on your works posted on social media could become an important tool for learning. Feedback on your works will give you ideas of how to improve your literacy skills.