Reading 2.0
Photo by Steven Byeon
Sara Grimes and Steven Byeon at The Daily (of the University of Washington) have composed an article entitled, “Reading 2.0.” I dropped a few quotables in there. Here’s a clip:
Jentery Sayers can pin his growth as a teacher on one specific book.
Silence by John Cage is the work that inspired the English doctoral candidate to use collaborative teaching methods in his English 111 classroom. Sayers never comes to class prepared for a lengthy lecture anymore. Instead, he comes equipped with an open mind, ready to engage with students in an interactive setting.
“Cage says: ‘There is no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound,’” Sayers said. “With those two sentences in mind, I’ve tried to listen to students more and talk at them less.”
Wonderful! The kinds of reconfigurations that happen in experimental music are fantastic starting places for re-imagining education. After all, traditional music production is a mode of social organization; musical experimentation offers ways to try new organizational modes in an abstract setting. See: Dick Higgins, Cornelius Cardew, Brian Eno, Pauline Oliveros—the possibilities are (almost) endless!
Good point, Nick! Thanks!