The video of Feist playing on Sesame Street reminded me to dig up the clip of Herbie Hancock demoing the Fairlight synthesizer on the same show twenty years earlier. I am terribly sad to report that it appears to have been taken down by the user! Terribly sad.
If anyone knows where I can find this […]
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Hancock demos Fairlight on Sesame Street
July 17th, 2008 children, funk, kids, music, sesamestreet, synthesizer, takedowns, tv, youtomb, youtube | No Comments »Two more reasons I love 9th graders
January 11th, 2008 design, education, email, highschool, kids, literacy, media, mobile, teaching, technology, teenagers, todomundo | No Comments »Observing a 9th grade history class yesterday, I witnessed two interactions that blew my mind.
1. During lunch, several students used discarded lunch trays, staples, pens, and tape to craft foam Sidekicks and ENVs with sliding, flipping, and popping ’screens’. They then wrote notes on paper, folded them up, placed them inside of the closed phones, […]
