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My ASCD 2009 presentation is available for download here. Thanks to Josie Hughes for co-presenting. And thanks to all who showed up this late in the day, your persistence is appreciated.
Theses videos remind me of what can happen when kids get involved in creative communities (musical, artistic or even high-tech).
The first is the 60 minutes story on Gustavo Dudamel, the new conductor of the L.A. Philharmonic and a product of El Sistema, “the system” to save poor Venezuelan kids by teaching them to play musical instruments and to be part of an orchestra.
The second is this year’s TED Prize winner, Jose Antonio Abreu, the founder of El Sistema.
