Building Better Brains, One Beat at a Time

In today's classrooms, children struggle with short attention spans, retention of difficult or complex information and a lack of engagement. Neurologically, music can address all three problems at once. At RICH Learning, we never teach ANYTHING new without first introducing the concepts in a song.

Plato wrote: Music is the most potent form of education.” As it turns out, the old Greek was neurologically right on.

According to Dr. Ani Patel, author of Music, Language and the Brain, music connects significantly more areas of the brain than the spoken word alone. It engages OVERLAPPING areas of the brain. It involves PRECISION in measuring pitch, tone, beat, lyrics, memory centers and volume. It awakens EMOTIONAL centers of the brain, causing immediate attention and connections to long-term memory. Its REPETITION causes the insulating tissue myelin to coat and cover nerve cells, enabling them to fire more efficiently. The end result of teaching with music? ATTENTION.

In first RICH Metaversal online world, the “City of Six Towers” every lesson - whether language or math or science or health or virtue or arts – begins with a short comedy sketch taught by Virtual Alien Tutors who embed the main points of the lesson in song. Children laugh, learn, dance and sing along with their teachers, earning virtual gemstones . They double these tokens if they can teach a parent or elder to sing and dance along.

Note: There’s more on the magical benefits music brings to learning in the free book “RICH Learning: Brain-based Learning on Arts-based Platforms at Youtube .