Saturday, November 17, 2012

Journal #6: A Moment of Success


Just played with my buddy and I think it went rather well! We looked up some songs to play and he is far more musically inclined than I so when I told him to play in G --- he did! And he knew what I was doing and I had fun.  While we mostly played drums and guitar, we also picked up the harmonica and messed with it for a while. 

Mostly played some holiday tunes.  Here comes Santa Claus and Auld Lang Syne ended up being some favorites.  He actually pulled out his ukulele and we played “Auld Lang Syne” together and it sounded rather nice.  When you have multiple people playing together it tends to cover up the mistakes of some and focuses more on the sound of the group.  I forgot that about that idea.  I remember in high school making music with them and thinking that none of us were very good apart from one another, but when we played together it sounded like music.

Idea for my research project:

(1) How important collaboration and group work can be in the learning process and how much they help with retention of information because group members “fill in the blanks.” 

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