| richardhutnik said: I heard there is a push to get it into classroom settings. What you stated, which may be an accomplishment, sounds more like an introduction to music, and playing instruments. Maybe it is of greater value than Guitar Heroes, but doesn't sound like something one wants to use to master music. I guess it would be like Spanish Tutor I have. Spanish Tutor does a mediocre job at teaching Spanish, but is good as an introduction. One has to be concerned schools will turn to Wii Music as some sort of magic bullet to teach music.
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I would say that is an unfounded concern. Games have been used for teaching things for a long time, and I think that everyone knows that no game is a complete education. They are only tools that teachers can use to teach certain concepts and give students a different feeling of how things work (I'm thinking of Civilisation and Sim City here).
Thinking back on my own music education, I can honestly say that most of it was based on learning how to use instruments and training my ear in harmonics (not sure that's the word). Very little to no time was spent on learning about what music was, and how to create it for ourselves. This was a part that I actually found lacking, but it's very difficult to teach this to a person that has not mastered an instrument or knows music theory. THIS is the part where Wii Music can help, and the MAIN reason I'm interested in the game.
Of course Wii Music cannot give you a complete musical education. What it can teach you though is very, very important, and it's probably the best tool to teach those things. It takes away a lot of the distractions of making music so that you can focus on only that. Making music (and learning to waggle).
Used correctly it can be a powerful tool. Combined with traditional education, I believe it can speed things up, or at least make the goal a lot clearer.
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