Like politics and religion, piano learning is also an important subject. There is a difference of opinion about both these subjects even though most of the people do not carry ample amount of knowledge regarding it. Below are some common fables about learning piano lessons:

1. Inborn talent makes a man perfect in everything

According to the majority of people, a man should be naturally intelligent so that he can excel in a particular field. Many people are of the view that Mozart was meant to be a best pianist since day first. But, the truth is that there is no need to have any kind of inborn talent to become master of something.
Continuous practices as well as the motivational forces are two negligible factors that lead one towards success. As a matter of fact, practice is the key to perfection! There is no doubt that daily routine practice of piano lessons can bring perfection in your work.

2. If in case you’re not learning piano lessons quickly, it’s because you’re not putting in all your effort and time

This common myth is kept by a large number of people. Sometimes, people try a lot and give more than enough time for learning piano lessons. But still, they remain unsuccessful in attaining their set success level.
They believe that extensive time is the major factor to learn piano. To some extent, it’s not wrong as you need to give enough time and efforts. However, if they change their learning patterns and utilize their time properly, they can accomplish great success.

3. Mastering Piano Needs 10 Hours’ Practice a Day

This point can be related to the one given above. Most of the people believe that thinking as well as practicing piano during each waking hour is the key to become a great pianist all the way. Taking this obsession as a model will come up with fruitful results.
If you keep on playing same skill on piano for 10 hours, you’ll be stuck to one level only. Most pianists are of the view that just one hour of piano practice with right piano lessons is more useful than the practice of ten hours.

4. Learning Piano is not everybody’s cup of tea

This is also one among the beliefs of a lot of people. We human beings usually like attributing our achievements to the things we normally manage. Whereas, we accredit out failures to the stuff we usually do not administer. So, we should avoid such things especially while learning piano lessons. Bear in mind that these are the myths that can ruin the process rather than to give you success.

5. It is hard to significantly change the speed of learning piano

Most of the people are of the view that they keep a certain inborn IQ level which is a determinant of their learning rate. In fact, everything is possible with the use of right learning methods. One can even boost his learning tenfold with the use of right methods and techniques. Always remember that the key for learning piano efficiently and swiftly is the use of right piano lessons.

Stay away from myths regarding piano learning, follow quality piano lessons and become master of it.

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The Lower Merion School District (motto: “We’re Building the Future Police State”), caught using a remote monitoring service on school-supplied laptops while the kids were at home, had some pretty creepy rules on the books to ensure compliance. To wit we find, thanks to strydehax, these gems:

* Possession of a monitored Macbook was required for classes
* Possession of an unmonitored personal computer was forbidden and would be confiscated

* Disabling the camera was impossible

* Jailbreaking a school laptop in order to secure it or monitor it against intrusion was an offense which merited expulsion

Expulsion, eh? Pretty rough stuff. But shouldn’t the school district be able to protect their investment? Well, the reason this all came up was that a kid in the district was caught eating Mike-n-Ikes at home. The principal called him in for eating candy and, presumably, this school watching this kid in his own room. This means, in an effort to prevent theft, there was some potential pedophilia happening here.

That’s not all. Here’s the PA tech guy, Mike Perbix, talking about the tracking program, LANDRev in a promotional video:

And then there are these testimonials by students at the school, including:

” had brought in my own personal computer to work on a project for school one day. I was doing a presentation involving programs not available on the regular computers, only in specific labs. I happened to have a copy of my own. My personal property was confiscated from me in a study hall when I was working on a school assignment because it was against the schools ‘code of conduct’.”

What we have here is a perfect example of why technology, thrown willy-nilly at children, is bad. These laptops gave school authorities the ability to spy on their charges in their own homes. You can see the board meeting now: “Let’s give the kids laptops.” “How do we make sure they don’t look at porn?” “We’ll watch them. I know these dudes with a great solution.” And so it begins. A great idea – giving kids technology – turns into reducing the learning opportunities by essentially making that technology useless. If I were in a flamewar kind of mood, I’d say this is what stymies the One Laptop Per Child project as well. It’s the assumption that kids will break your stuff and so they deserve hobbled hardware.

Technology, when misused, does not augment teaching. Instead, it gets in the way of it.

This is a dark day for education and will cast a pall over future laptop loaner programs. These administrators should be ashamed.

via BoingBoing

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A recent review of the national curriculum for England's primary school has determined that IT and technology should be a brand new centre piece, given equal time to core subjects such as English and Maths.

Former chief inspector of schools, Jim Rose has made a number of recommendations including a new focus on speaking and listening skills.  He also said that children should be able to start school in the September after their fourth birthday.  The report was commissioned amongst fears that school timetables had become too ‘cluttered’ has stressed the importance of computers in schools and in internet use in particular being ingrained into the curriculum from an early age.

This focus on the importance of the use of IT and computers in schools was brought to light in early April when the new proposals were misinterpreted by many media outlets as ‘teaching Twitter in schools’.The real plans aim to educate children in various aspects of computer usage, from computer presentations to podcasting.

In this interim report, Sir Jim has suggested that there should be six broader areas of learning as opposed to up to 14 more traditional individual subjects such as history, geography and science.

The underlying train of thought is that if ICT in schools was ignored, a generation of children not versed in all things digital could emerge.It is the opinion of many that this would be detrimental to an economy that relies heavily on the IT and digital sectors.

Teaching unions have been welcoming of the proposed changes, the most radical shake up of the curriculum in 20 years, but have continued to criticize the curriculums seeming and apparent overreliance on testing of children.Some MPs have also welcomed the changes provided that they weren't brought in at the expense of 'dumbing down' the curriculumm, insisting that the proposals shouldn't prioritize 'headline grabbing gimmicks' at the expense of bettering children's education.