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I've always struggled with finding ambient music to play in the classroom - mostly because my students have such a wildly different musical landscape than I do. I am not a huge fan of classical music, jazz was distracting, new age-y stuff like Enya was okay, nature sounds were okay. I am personally not able to work/concentrate with music that has words, the language is a distraction that I can not tune out.

But I've stumbled on ambient nirvana with Rockabye Baby. No matter how unfocused my students are, five minutes of lullaby renditions of The Cure and they are totally mellow and zoned. I'm not kidding. Even after lunch. A little Plainsong and in minutes they are all quietly writing deep poetry.

Comments

[steph]

beautiful, perfect, lovely. i'm so getting this.

[Allison]

This is awesome! I am getting my friend the U2 version for her baby shower, but had no idea it had other uses. I must remember this!