by Janice Florent
Do you use music in your teaching and learning? If not, maybe you should consider using music.
Research has shown that music can:
- Set a positive mood
- Raise energy levels
- Reduce stress levels
- Calm your students
- Motivate and inspire your students
- Keep students focused and attentive
Whether you need to calm your students down, or get them up and moving, music is just the thing to try out.
Additional information can be found in the article by Chris Brewer on Music and Learning: Integrating Music in the Classroom.
It may not be a simple task to find suitable free music to use in your classroom or for your videos and presentations. This one minute video created by #1minuteCPD provides you with four different sites which have a good variety of music, much of it licenced under Creative Commons Universal (CC0).