Can music improve attention and learning?

Hi all, here's another article that I thought was really interesting: Bridging Music Neuroscience Evidence to Music Therapy Best Practice in the Early Childhood Classroom.
You can find a summary of the article here.

Do you use music in your classroom?  If so, do you think it has helped students learned?  How does the information in this article align with and/or contradict other chapters/ articles we've read so far this semester?

Have technology and multitasking rewired how students learn?

Hi everyone! I'll be posting two articles for discussion this week.  The first is an article on how technology impacts thinking and learning, and implications for technology use in the classroom.
You can find the article here and an overview of the article here.
Please comment on the following questions...
-What have you observed when students interact with technology in your classroom?  What are you currently doing and how can you use technology more effectively after reading this article?
-What role does working memory play in the effectiveness of technology?  What considerations need to be made to differentiate for all learners when we use technology in the classroom?

Why focus on the negative?

So in the powerpoint yesterday I posed a question: Why do you think researchers started with the negative emotions first? And do you think it is important to consider the positive emotions? If we could really understand, completely understand the implications of negative emotions and how they work, would it be important to know about positive emotions? Love to hear your thoughts.