The value of new literacies like "Garage Band" is that there are many new ways of learning that are coming into being. We always talk about different learning styles and different types of learners. We always allude to the fact that teachers need to incorporate differentiated instruction to reach all of their students. Programs like this make me realize that the differentiated instruction is there. Technology gives us great ways to reach kinesthetic, visual, and auditory learners.
I find it personally humorous that we are always told to differentiate our teaching while we are sat down and lectured to or given a power point presentation. It's like people know what they are supposed to teach us but don't always practice what they preach. Then if you go in our mentor teachers classrooms it is a whole other ballgame with a lot of people "grandfathered" into the system who don't even need to pass Praxis.
To me, this kind of program is the differentiation of the future. Teachers will have to become able to utilize technology in order to differentiate their teaching approach. Programs like "garage band" provide valuable cross-curricular material that teachers can utilize. I am so excited for the day when school systems decide to provide these resources for teachers and train them to use it.
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