Wednesday 21 March 2018

Exploring the deep questions posed in pop songs

Lots of songs contain questions that are fun and interesting to reflect upon and discuss.

Lately, we've been ransacking our memories, playlists and search engines to find good questions. When students find questions, they write them up in a shared document: Important questions posed by songs

Each student then prepares a short talk (2-5 minutes) based on their question. So far, students have taken different approaches to this, e.g. scientific, philosophical, personal and imaginative. Then we pass the question around the class to get everyone's thoughts.

It's a simple exercise that leads to some surprising insights, memories, good stories, creative thinking and which also points us forward towards new avenues of exploration in the future.


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