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Many persons grasp the importance of exposure to the arts. We love art; it is a necessary portion of our society. In fact, for each culture and each society, art in a great deal of form or another is critical to how we live. For many, a good deal of years, arts programs have been cut in Oklahoma City Schools in attempts to divert funds to “more pressing” subject areas like reading and mathematics. While these are without doubt necessary subjects for Oklahoma City Schools students to master, including an arts education in a student’s learning experiences may do not one thing but improve their time attending Oklahoma City Schools, as well as bestow to the amount of success they see as a whole.

Most Oklahoma City Public Schools concentrate on instructing students in three ways; by showing them how to do things, by telling them the selective information they need, or by giving them prospects to try things themselves (also known as visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles).

There are, in fact, galore learning styles as identified by Howard Gardner, psychologist and noted pedagogical theorist:

- Linguistic – “word-smart”

- Interpersonal – “people smart”

- Bodily-kinesthetic – “body smart”

- Logical-mathematical – “math smart”

- Naturalist – “nature smart”

- Spatial – “picture smart”

- Musical – “music smart”

- Intrapersonal – “self smart”

More than ever, schools are realizing the importance of addressing all of these learning styles. Students attending sure Oklahoma City Schools are reaping the gains of the dedication to providing instructional experiences by way of these learning styles.

In attempts to give more and more students an education that addresses their specific learning style(s), a lot of Oklahoma City Schools are integrating the arts into their programs. Following an “A+” model in the first place started out in North Carolina, Oklahoma City Schools are instituting their own arts integration programs. Originally a project of the DaVinci Institute, it is presently administered by the University of Central Oklahoma.

The model being applied by Oklahoma City Schools looks at 8 dissimilar areas to improve arts integration in their schools:

1) Arts;

2) Curriculum;

3) Multiple intelligences;

4) Experiential learning;

5) Enriched assessment;

6) Collaboration;

7) Infrastructure; and

Climate

For teachers employed with Oklahoma City Schools, the program has been a godsend. All educators strive to “light the spark” and desperately want to reach all – 100% – of their students. For the instructional staff, of the Oklahoma City Schools using this model, discovering how to appeal to the dissimilar ways children learn has been precisely what they have been looking for.

Another impressive aspect of the program is the Oklahoma City Schools professional development that goes along with it. Instead of giving newly trained teaches the manual with the expectation that they follow the model, the A+ model provides extensive and ongoing training and help to all teachers new to the program. Oklahoma City Schools’ teachers focus on learning to work together, using research-based exercises to establish curriculum that includes interdisciplinary themes that foster arts integration all over classes as well as use Gardner’s respective learning styles.

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24 of 27 humans found the following review helpful.
OK Go is more amazing than ok!
By Francie Horton
This album has been in heavy rotation in my iTunes ever since it came out. I’m not a music-techie person so I can’t tell you in regards to mixing or any of that stuff. I may just tell you what I listen and what I like. This I actually like. Even more than the introductory two albums. It wouldn’t be too much to say I utterly love it.
Yes, I was a big fan of the old Prince music to which every one is comparing it. And if you read their bio blurb on Lala you’ll see that they freely confess this album is influenced by Prince. And I catch that sentiment in “White Knuckles” and perhaps a little bit in “Skyscrapers”.
Really, though, this sounds like the third album from a actually great band – as in a band that is not affrighted of growth and alter even if it takes them in a new direction from what made them popular. Their sound changed. Um, yes. That’s what happens when bands don’t pull from the same stale formulas. If you want a band that always sounds the same go buy a half dozen Nickelback albums. If you want an album full of songs that are both attentiongetting and full of soul, then pick up Of the Blue Colour of the Sky.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
All is not lost for OK GO
By LetsBurnHoles
Ever since their 2002 self titled debut, OK Go has been a wild card pop rock player. Their music may best be classified as intellectual power pop, a label not many times bestowed upon the genre. With the release of this new album, the band finds themselves inspired and ready to invent a genuinely distinguishable collection of songs. Damian Kulash is a musical crazy scientist. His creativeness is not bounded by the pressures of record labels or fans expectations. Having said that, there seems to be a heap of controversy surrounding the direction OK Go’s “sound” has taken. I disagree with the naysayers. Take a look back at songs like “A Million Ways” (from Oh No) and “There’s a Fire” (from the self titled). This is the natural progress of a band who does not know how to write a bad song. I love the more funky / experimental route the band has taken, and if you give it a chance, I think you will too.

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Flaming Lips’ Influence Reigns Supreme
By J. Loudon
It has been five years since these treadmill dancing gents from Chicago graced us with an album. That’s right, Oh No, the album that made them an internet sensation for the duration of the summer of 2005 was this band’s last release. On a major label, Capitol Records, from the beginning, OK Go seems to have gained a lot of originative freedom since then. With Oh No behind them, OK Go has gone through some major renovations in sound. Although I am specifically a huge fan of bands experimenting with their sound to find a winning formula that they may call their own, the overhaul performed by OK Go is not inevitably all for the best.

The album opens with the appropriately titled “WTF?” which is precisely what OK Go fans might be saying after hearing the original single to OK Go’s to a great extent Flaming Lips influenced reconstruction. The glowing cause of this new sound is none other than the addition of longtime Flaming Lips producer and engineer, Dave Fridmann who has not long ago contributed to the success of MGMT. The attentiongetting hooks of OK Go’s past are not gone, but some of them are lost in a sea of reverb and slap back echoes. With unconventional instrumentation ofttimes distorted for added effect accompanying less procedure rhythm patterns, the only true discerning sound remaining is Damian Kulash’s vocals.

The album’s third track, “All Is Not Lost,” may not be the best track on the album, but the title tells the truth. OK Go’s alternate direction will likely be a disappointment for a heap of of their introductory fans, but the mix is perfectly put together and the new electronic cornerstones fabricate a very interesting listening experience.

OK Go begins to settle in regarding halfway through the album. The slow groove of “Skyscrapers” and the contrastingly attentiongetting following track, “White Knuckles,” are without apparent effort more single worthy than “WTF?” and are unquestionably the best examples of OK Go blending their experimental side with the addictive tunes that got them to where they are; or at least to where they were five years ago. Of the Blue Colour of the Sky may not have been the best choice of styles for OK Go, but each band is entitled to something new from time to time and once you get past the basi shock, the aftertaste is ofttimes pretty delicious.

Similar Artists: The Flaming Lips, Spoon

Track Suggestion: Skyscrapers

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