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Playing this game was enjoyable as I used my imagination and viewed the world from a different perspective. I realised how many things we have taken for granted in this life, as this was my first experience with the parallax I was interested in and pulled in from the beginning. I noticed the very few details in my street I never paid attention to as I looked at everything from a different perspective, visualising and learning the purpose.

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The Reggio Emilia approach to learning inspires students and teachers to become researchers within the environment. Reggio Emilia’s theory backs a hundred languages as they acknowledge how children are limited to their thoughts and can express their creativity in the classroom. As an educator, I will focus on my children and allow them to express themselves and their beliefs as they should express themselves without feeling judged or held back.

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Both videos represent the importance of listening. These videos discuss the importance of listening to all sounds and listening to the world around us as it is hard to listen often. Watching Pauline’s video shows the difference between hearing and listening; I enjoyed the information given as I relate to sometimes hearing the person but not necessarily listening. Allowing children to listen to music as an educator will strengthen their listening skills and help them sit through different songs and understand the message given.

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The Bangarra performance is a performance connecting to the aboriginal people and their land. This dance is a sacred tradition for the indigenous cultures of Australia and has unique structures of creative expressions. The audience pays attention to how the mutton birds played out as the birds have a solid connection to the land and the people who share the ground with them. The acting is extensive and impressive and allows us to analyse and understand the message given.

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During this game, I read the instructions and thought it would be a simple game to play. However, once I started to click on tabs and explore the website, it seemed very confusing to me however it bought me into a different perspective on how the world around us is always changing. We can see through these lens that there is a story behind each piece of graffiti that has been spray painted on the wall, how certain items have been left in a place where we would not particularly see in this place and so on.  If I were to show this website to students, family or friends, everyone would have a different aspect on how they view a certain photo.

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During this video, it made me feel emotional since how it's so important for listening and hearing the world around us. All of us tend to put our airpods, earphones or headphones to listen to music, podcast etc. However, it puts into a different aspect that what would happen if all of us could not hear? People would think differently about if we couldn't hear our friends talking, our family members or even the sound of rain when it starts to pour down. As an educator, I want to allow my students to explore and help form their own identity to which types of noises they are most attracted to or to noises that make their ears go.

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As educators, our role is to provide our students with resources which can excel their skills, their development and guidance in early childhood. This is important in the development process as skills are essential growing up. As educators, we should not pressure students into feeling overwhelmed and therefore, we can see that this will help us to express ourselves in many ways. Furthermore, learning and developing at the same time can have a big impact on our students.

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Using Common Worlds website, we can see that this website has a lot of useful resources which allows educators, parents, guardians and students to learn about different topics which can relate to female empowerment, environmental, Indigenous stories. These topics can allow students to gain better understandings and assist them with further development on how the world has changed. It gives us an understanding on how things have changed, why they have changed and how important it is to look at both sides of perspective.

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The game initially seemed confusing, but I learnt how to use it. The game enabled me to see the world from a different lens. We should appreciate the beauty of nature and we should not take its beauty and presence for granted. We can never repay nature for its kindness. Something we can do is to respect and take care of it.

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After going through the video and book I have learnt that there are hundreds of ways for children to interact with others. Children create their own ways of communicating with others and the role of the adults here is to understand their ways of communication rather than imposing our own ideas on them. children are not empty vessels that need to be filled with knowledge. I believe empty vessels means that children’s mind contains nothing and that they are not capable of thinking which underestimate their abilities. If children are given the freedom of exploration, they will discover a hundred new ways to communicate with us. This will also provide us the opportunity to learn new ways from the children.

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A useful and insightful website that could be incorporated in our future teaching practice, there are many projects integrated in this website such as: with in the forest, walking together, going out and about, and unsettling encounters with ‘Natural’ places in early childhood education.  The website focuses on the significance of interacting and making meaning with the natural world. The projects could be used to inform our teaching practice and provide children with enrich information about nature and help them connect and form a respectful relation with the natural world which will encourage them to respect and care for the environment and non-humans.

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After watching Dadirri, I questioned myself how often we calm down ourselves and focus on what nature offers us, does our daily routine give us any experience of nature? How often do we stop and listen to our surroundings? Dadirri invites us to look into ourselves and question ourselves, who we are? What are we doing? It invites us to be at peace with ourselves, to sit still and listen to our surroundings and nature. It promotes us to Listen to our inner self and outside. I think Dadirri provides us the opportunity to better understand ourselves and nature. Throughout the video I also learned how Aboriginal people are spiritually connected to the land and how they have a strong sense of belonging to the land.

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After watching the Daddiri video and reading the pdf, I was really impressed. The piece enlightened my understanding of the aboriginal people and their stories. Deep listening describes the process of deep and respectful listening, this piece made me aware of my feelings and connections. Music is always around me wether its the sound of birds whistling or the trees rustling from the wind. Allowing the children to listen to nature and friends will help them connect as we early childhood educators teach them to listen.

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This website analyses childhood education, indigenous environment, societal research, and many more topics. Browsing the website helped me gain ideas on topics I can use as a future educator as it mentions many issues that relate to children. With the detailed source, we can benefit from this information as to future educators.

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After watching the Daddiri video and reading the pdf, I was impressed! The piece well-informed my understanding of the aboriginal people and their stories. Deep listening defines the process of deep and respectful listening; this piece made me aware of my feelings and connections. Music is always around me, whether it's the sound of birds whistling or the trees rustling from the wind. Allowing the children to listen to nature and friends will help them connect as early childhood educators teach them to listen.

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Watching the video, Victor Wooten speaks about how children are taught their language and music without realising before they learn. Growing up with your first language displays how you don't notice you're a beginner, which happens with music. He talks about the musical freedom within children and how children's freedom is essential for their growth and understanding; music is a powerful communication tool. To grow, you make mistakes, and you learn from them. That becomes part of the process; one of Wooten's keys to learning or teaching music is embracing the errors instead of correcting them. I learnt this the hard way as in my day to day life, and I would make common mistakes and tend to give up; learning to accept my faults and be willing to learn and listen helped me grow. That's why I believe that it's okay to make mistakes and that not everyone is perfect, but learning from your mistakes will help you succeed.

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The video discusses how important listening is and how it is different from hearing. In everyday life, we hear many sounds, from clicking sounds to talking to music with different instruments playing out at the same time. You can be easily distracted by sound, even if you do not listen you can still hear and it can become distractive. Sound can enhance our daily lives in many ways and many things can influence that. People tend to listen to something or place focus on it if it interests them. They can hear many sounds but only listen to one sound. As a future educator, it's important to be flexible with different sounds made in the classroom. This allows children to explore and help form self-identity to which type of noises or sounds they are connected and able to form connection with.
-Eh Blu

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Reading through the Common World website helps me to reflect and critically think about how I can inclusively involve children in growing their sense of belonging in their learning centre as well as the place and space they come across. Not only to take relation account of with another person but to also a common world that takes into account of inclusiveness of what's more than human others.   The website provides great examples of activities that can encourage children to engage in place thought learning inclusively, through becoming interconnected with the materials.  It'll help us as an educator to deepen our understanding and relation of the common world on how we can learn with materials and spaces. Encouraging us to take broader open learning from many perspectives.
-Eh Blu

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‘Childhood has historically been valourised as a time of innocence and children are often viewed as incomplete, weak, and needy in the past’ (Ailwood 2016, P.36). whereas I believe children are proficient, and capable young learners who are continually researching the world and how it works, I recognise them as competent learners who are frequently constructing knowledge. Drawing on Victor Wooten’s example he said, ‘if you think about how you learned language, you will realize you weren’t taught.  people just spoke to you, and you were allowed to speak back’ (Wooten 2013). According to his perspective if children are given the opportunity and freedom to learn they can explore their own ways of mastering a skill. They do not need to be taught and instructed; rather they should be given the opportunities, freedom and a provoking atmosphere that encourages them to develop and enhance their skills.

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Going through the game, I saw many different photos of places and object. I was shown many doors which were made of varied materials and were from various places and object. I was shown many doors which were made of varied materials and were from various time periods . Seeing the photo, I imagined many scenarios and stories that took place there. I thought that behind every door there was a story. If we were to play this game with another person or in a group, we would hear different stories, emotions and feeling about one photo. The photos that were shown were of everyday places and object that people pass daily, but seeing the places an object as individual photo without context makes it seems that are more to it that meets the eye.
- Eh Blu

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Hearing and listing (P Chalani Fernando)

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Till watching this both videos never realize the importance and difference between hearing and listing. Both videos giving very important knowledge. Pauline’s video very impressive for me. Because she told that, “listing is mysterious process that is not the same for everyone”.  Also, she was explaining the difference about hearing and listing very clearly that “to hear is the physical means that enables perception, to listen is to give attention to what is perceived both acoustically and psychologically”.

After watching R Murray’s video, I thought I really missed something around myself. After my babies’ sleep, I went to my backyard and listen what I can hear. It was amazing feeling and felt so relaxed after long time. It was mix feelings bit of anxiety. When we pay close attention to surround us, we can hear more thing we never heard before. Now I realized hearing and deep listing providing opportunity to connect with environment.

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The video and the PDF show that Aboriginal cultural values their land as well as the importance of patients. I learned that listening, being still ( steady), and waiting is an important aspect of life.  It helps us to reflect on ourselves and our surroundings. "Helps us learn by watching and listening, waiting and then acting". To help us create a connection with others as well as the land we're standing on.

Both the video and PDF opened my eyes to the way I perceive the land, and of what is good listening . It is an important aspect for educators as well as we know not all children will learn the same. We as an educator should be patient and breathe with them ( to listen deeply) to help them reach their own goals. Like one of the quotes from the PDF states that " We do not try to hurry things up, we let them follow their natural course- like seasons."

- Eh Blu

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The whole video had me speechless. The background sounds reminded me of the didgeridoo do, the aboriginal musical instrument. Overall the video shows that stories can be told through music and dances.  From research, the Aboriginals uses this their body to interpret mutton bird to tell a story. Just like how we sometimes communicate through body language this is another way that can allow us to freely express ourselves and tell our own stories through it. This can be a great educational tool to encourage children to deepen their connection with each other through being able to interact within e.g. physically and emotionally.
-Eh Blu

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Hearing & Listening – Pauline Oliveros & R Murray Schafer 

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I love the relation that Pauline makes to listening being a lifelong skill that has been harnessed and practiced even now. Her speech about listening being a physical means that enables perception made me think about what I do every second of every day. There have been times that I have heard sounds and thought of something else. This also reminds me of place being an active agent when creating music, whatever that “music” may be. To me “music” is a series of sounds that create situation, story or purpose. I think it is great to be able to expose children to these kinds of concepts as teaching materials and to expose a high quality of life.

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The difference between hearing and listening has always been known to me, however I have never reflected as much on it as while watching Oliveros’ Ted talk. I have always understood that hearing something did not mean you were listening but hearing of listening as a process rather than an action was an interesting concept to me. As well as the idea that we can train our listening by being aware of when we are and aren’t listening or hearing, and intentionally listening to the sounds we hear around us.

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I have seen and played this game in a previous unit, I enjoyed the experience of playing the game walking around my area. I noticed more details which I had not noticed before, as well as noticing things in more detail as I allowed myself to pay attention and not rush past. My most common walk in my area is with a friend or rushing to work, well I usually pay attention to my surroundings enough to get around, I tend to be in a rush to meet the start of my shift, listening to music, or having a conversation with the person I am with.
Spending time alone and quiet makes me let my mind focus on the things around me a different way and I see things I have never noticed even when I walk the same path every day.

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I found watching this video very interesting and fascinating. The way the dancers were able to tell a story using body movements and natural sounding music. This shows that auditory lyrics aren't needed to be able to share a story, using movement in collaboration with sound and the power that it has.

I will work to incorporate movement to sound in my future ECE work as well as movement to music to allow the children to engage in meaning making and story telling skills as well as body awareness and coordination.

Another link that can be made by using movement to sounds can be showing and learning about ceremonial dances to enhance or further indigenous culture learning for children.

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As I was playing the Parallaxis game, it gave me peace of mind. The scenery of the city that was often disregarded gave my spirit life when I investigate the intricate details of it. It has beauty of its own that is not really seen because people are distracted by the soul and meaning of beauty. Things that have been kept in the dark showed light in a distinct way that shouts aesthetics. I recently bought a film cam and captured details that are often seen but not how my lens can see it. I was amazed at how it turned out after I developed it. It looks aesthetically pleasing, focusing on details that turned into magic. It was so beautiful.

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The video and context gave me a deep insight into the difference between hearing and listening. Curiosity, commitment, purpose, and effort are all required for listening. To connect with the other person and engage in a meaningful discussion, the listener tries to absorb and comprehend what they are hearing. And at some point, I realized the sound or hearing is received by our brain, which then determines what to focus on. Whenever I try to communicate with the children, sometimes I get distracted by focusing on hearing but not really listening to what they are saying. And with that, I was not able to really understand the child with a deeper level. It is important to stop, listen and to fully get into the atmosphere that children want to be listened to.

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As I was reading chapter 16, a question was asked “How much positive attention do we give ordinary moments in our program?”. This made me reflect on my observations with the children as I was doing my placement and work in childcare. Children have trivial things in their everyday lives, and sometimes I as an educator did not even realize that it is one of the keys to understanding the children. Simple things have big impacts on how a child’s identity and character molds. And that is something that I should look onto. There is an artistic dimension that every child presents within their natural ways. The beauty and aesthetics of learning are in every child’s everyday experience, it is through their freedom to move and think.

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The concept of Parallaxis game (2017) is about exploring the world through landscape of art. I had a wonderful journey going through the streets and was visualizing to process the sounds in my thoughts. My vison was exploring the world in a different perspective and sounds as I walked through the streets looking around and visualizing the effects of the sound.

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The approach of hearing and listening is about what we hear, what we feel and how we connect to sounds around us.  Reflecting on Oliver’s (2015) and Schafer (2017) videos, silence is about deep listening and encourages us to control our movements between the different areas.  I have noticed that when our brains are busy, we won't be able to hear the sound and experience the natural soundscape. Overall, being silent can make us hear real things, the sound of silence explores the sounds of consciousness that connects us to the landscape is the true sound of deep listening.

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Hundred Languages - Is Beauty a Way of Knowing

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The approach of a hundred languages was about children being open to endless potentials to learn and explore in several ways. Watching the video made me emotionally sad that children miss out on 99 languages that educators have taken away from them. The foundation of learning for Children is given opportunities to play freely to explore, experiment and play with these materials, but they are also supported in developing skills and expanding their understanding. There is a ‘point for seeing children in their brilliance and competence in constructing and advancing their own understanding’ (Edwards et al 2011, p. 295). As an early childhood teacher, I will view children as competent and natural curious learners. Having the Reggio Emilia approach in practice, I will give each child the opportunity to exercise their 100 languages to explore all their abilities. Therefore, my goal as an early childhood teacher is to have a positive environment to comfort every child's interests to feel strong and competent to achieve their goals.

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The collective website of the common world research focuses on the past, present, and future of children’s lives in a more human world that offers a wide range of important events, journals, articles, and research projects for Educators to have ideas to use in their workplace and practice. These ideas are excellent for Educators who are planning to change their outdoor settings into nature play. They have been given evidence about how important it is to include outdoor play for children which supports them in the holistic development of a child’s socially, cognitive, emotionally, and physical needs to form a solid foundation for their well-being and learning for their future. As an Educator, I use the Common Worlds resources for children play which will be easily accessible and they will be encouraged to learn about nature and explore wide range of natural materials within the environment.

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Bungara is an Aboriginal performing arts company known as the powerful Banagarra Dance to create an opportunity for the Aboriginal artists to explore and express their identity and culture through dance and drama.   The Aboriginal people performing arts, their movements illustrate the concepts of their connection between the human spirits and the spirits of a creature. According to Bangarra Education Resources the Muttun Bird (2008) video highlights the importance of cultural dance and tradition values according to their strong connections to land and nature. This performance was remarkable and gave me a strong sense of Aboriginal spirits being with us. I felt a strong connection to the land and nature that I never felt spiritual. I was inspired by the Bungara performance video as the dancers perform movements by telling a story without communicating and body movements were slow and calm. The Banagar Education Resources (2008) can enhance my practice and improve the children's cultural diversity. I will illustrate movements to encourage children to move their bodies smoothly and slowly. As a music Educator, I will promote movement performance for children to demonstrate storytelling dance will develop their sense of identity. The Bangarra dance will support their understanding and learning about the Aboriginal culture.

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The concept of Dadirri means deep listening of nature and being connected to nature is one of the Aboriginal people spiritual beliefs.  From the video, Dadirri, Rose-mary (2017) highlighted the value of deep listening, awareness of nature and healing the important of spiritual nature. The Dadirri Video made me understand that the natural sound got me connected to spiritual nature was good experience, mostly been valuable part of Aboriginal practice for a long time. Generally, the inspiration of place-thought is a nice example of seeing the nature in different ways of listening to nature (Hamm 2015). In my practice, I will promote Aboriginal culture by introducing the Spirit of Dadirri of deep listening and walking in nature with children to have wide opportunities to explore the cultural diversity. Nature sounds will support children use their bodies and minds to connect to nature and show respect for nature. Therefore, it encourages children to develop the understanding and respect of Aboriginal Culture and traditions that enrich their connections to spiritual nature.

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In the early years industry, music education has enhanced in all areas of child developmental skills and develop into most vital part of learning. According to Wooten (2013) video, before birth we were learning music and language by the sense of listening. From my point of view music is an art which shapes the essential part of human existence, therefore it beautifies our sense and emotion to express ourselves.  I was drawn from Wooten (2013) video about agency of music is a language and made me think deeply on how the music is reflected on these benefits that supports children to develop holistic skills through music and movement. Niland (2009) believes how ‘early childhood is about holistic approach to exploring the world in musical ways.’ I believe music as language is an extremely powerful tool which music produces another dimension of beauty into our lives, music is source for communications, emotions, and physical expressions for children to freely express themselves. In his video, Wooten (2017) describes his philosophy of music as a language and how natural music learning can be, his point has approached me how to be a music educator in my career. As a music Educator, I will promote all types of music play-based and child-centered basis of my emergent program.

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Chapter 16 it outlines that “the theory of the hundred languages, as proposed by Reggio Emilia educators, offers a new vantage point for seeing children in their brilliance and competence in constructing and advancing their own understanding”, how I connected to this when I read it is that as an educator it is important to allow children to make meaning out of their own experiences and build on that during the events that occur in our environment. Through children exploring their own paths, they are capable to flourish in the time they are ready, and further develop to their potential. This will encourage children to build on their confidence where they become more connected. Having the confidence and exploring themselves, open them up to more opportunities. This chapter significantly highlighted the importance of children being the constructors of their learning process, which highly resonated with my understandings.

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This was my first experience with using the Parallaxis website. It was great to have an opportunity to try to see things from various perspectives.

The game grants one to create a personal understanding of how we view the world around us.

This game allowed me to focus on my teaching experience. Furthermore, this could work as a really great example for me to improve my teaching practices and comprehend how to use this strategy on the different learning program.

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This website/game is meant to show the different meanings/experiences given at many angles and interpretations from different people. Each and every individual's interpretation is different, this exemplifies when something little to someone may be something big to somebody else. In my opinion, this game made me feel more appreciative of the things around me, whether big or small. This game will help portray the idea of allowing anyone to play the game and have multicultural purposes when it comes to diversity. Therefore, this game assists educators to freely participate and enjoy themselves like a child would.

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Hearing & Listening - Pauline Oliveros & R Murray Schafer 

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After watching the two videos, I began to comprehend the difference between hearing and listening. Hearing means that the ability to have the sound go through your ears whether intentionally or unintentionally. However, listening requires one to be conscious and pay attention to what you hear.

After watching the second video, I understand silence is also important in our life. Silence encourages us to experience the use of other senses and make a connection with the world. Silence allows us to listen to others and hear our surroundings. As much as talking and engaging is important for a child's development, I believe the same for silence.

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This website gave me an insight into how important it is to connect and be one with nature. It gave me ideas and resources on to how I could further extend my expertise in this area. I love how the resources were presented creatively; it gives me a comprehensive approach to how nature moves with an individual and how they are being shaped by it.

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Hundred Languages - Is Beauty a Way of Knowing

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Growing up as a student, I was always told to listen and pay attention in class and speaking was not very fond in my learning experience. As students we mostly memorise contents but not necessarily understanding them.

Having gone through this experience, this topic has moved me deeply as an emerging pre-service teacher.
I aspire to be an educator who supports children by understanding their complex ways of knowing the world allow children to learn through an educational and interactive approach that is focused from their point of view. Children are born with great creativity and expression, hence, they should not be limited when expressing themselves.

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Before watching the video, I used to interchange the word hearing and listening and mistake them for the same meaning. But this video prompted me to explore the concept of deep listening. In other words, by training your ears and mind to actively listen to sounds, instead of tuning them out, you will enjoy an increased level of audio understanding, deeper levels of creativity, and connectivity with your environment.

So, let’s take a moment and close our eyes.
Listen.
Think of each of each noise, note, sound as music.
Open your eyes and lets think what we heard.

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The common worlds website contains highly insightful information that I can use as a future teaching resource. I can use the posts to guide my emerging teaching philosophy. Whilst I was exploring the website, the posts made me ponder on the interaction that humans have with nature and found that often at times we forget to acknowledge our non-human counterparts. We don’t consider the history and significance embedded into the land forged throughout time.

This is a world that we share with children and we, as educators, have that responsibility to delve into children’s relation to place. By including the natural world into the teaching, children will explore the outdoors to feel, see, hear, smell, and touch the ground in which they stand on and form connections to the land. By using the common worlds as a starting point I can explore Indigenous concepts like the place thought walk.

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The hundred languages chapter and videos made me reflect on how children are capable and competent learners who are intrinsically artistic and creatively inclined from a young age. I realised that educational settings box children in confines that sets to define their intelligence based on academic ability rather than placing value on seeing the children as individuals. All children are unique beings who have different thoughts, viewpoints, ways of learning. The children in the video talked about how educational settings strip away creativity, dreams, and imagination but against these factors the child still attempts to create their own path. Educational institutions should have a nurturing environment that festers and provokes creativity and imagination. For my future teaching practice, I will enable children to learn at their own pace, to go through the process of trial, to discover, investigate and explore their interests and passions as they become constructors of their own knowledge in a liberating atmosphere.

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I thoroughly took pleasure browsing through this website and I believe this would be handy to revisit for further referencing in my future teaching practice.

It made me aware of how important it is for children to connect to place/land through nature, environment and relationships with others.

When children create connections to places, they develop their sense of belonging. This would greatly increase their confidence and motivation in achieving their goals.
This website has been very beneficial in helping me for implementation of experiences in my future teaching practises.

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I have never had experience with The Parallaxis, so this was an interesting experience. I was captured by the aesthetic feel of the images and drawn to the idea of exploring places I have never seen before. After choosing the Grimoire I was surprised to find different subsections that had a similar theme throughout the pictures. This experience with the game enlightened me and made me realise that I normally don’t pay attention to the environment, I usually have a destination set in mind and look without seeing. As a response to this, I went on a walk through my local community and noticed sounds, light, murals, street art and buildings that I had never noticed before, this piqued my curiosity as this was a route, I had taken for a long time, but these discoveries were new to me. It was familiar but at the same time gave me a feeling of unknowingness.

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My first impression after watching the video was full of different emotions but unexplainable and also in a way confused. I believe the reason why I felt that way was because I felt many emotions from the video but did not know what it meant or the story behind it.

Thus, I decided to search up on muttonbird. After some research, I found out that the muttonbird represented a part of Australia's Aboriginal culture. In the past, aboriginals have experienced being killed and expelled from their home by strangers of the land. This insight has greatly helped in understanding the artistry concept that the dancers wanted to portray.

Aboriginal people used their bodies to interpret and express the muttonbird in their own ways, which we, the present people are unable to experience those of the late settlers.
This is so that more people of the present can get an understanding and respect for the culture. This also helps us to bind together in promoting a harmonious life.

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Listening to both Oliveros and Schafer’s videos made me realise that there is a significance of a difference when it comes to hearing and listening. These videos focus more on quiet and loud sounds that consist everywhere around us but we tend to not focus on them due to it being distracting to what we want to focus on. It is important for children to utilise these listening and hearing skills as they are still at their growing stages in life, and can bring these skills to their future and future schooling. Therefore, the sounds that are surrounded by children are essential for their own individual and collaborative learning experiences.

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Dadirri - Inner Deep Listening & Quiet Still Awareness

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Dadirri - Inner Deep Listening & Quiet Still Awareness

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From this article, I have learned a lot about the art of listening. The importance of listening and being present has been greatly explored and explained in this article. I feel that there are so much that we could learn from the aboriginal culture and the people that came before us.
With much experience and knowledge from the people who have lived long before us and explored way more than us, we must be willing to listen and take the wisdom that has been shared with us.

I believe this relates to the pedagogy of listening where we listen with mindfulness not only with our ears but also our senses. As educators, we have to be an active listener and also be aware of the actions of our children. We do not necessarily have to act upon with words or action, but with just listening and being aware, we have created a better place for children.

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After engaging with both videos, I realised how we listen and hear things are two different concepts. In Pauline Oliveros’ video she mentions “to listen is to give attention” this connected to me because there are days where I can hear what I want to hear but not be attentive to what is being said. As perceive noise as irritating, I never take the time to listen and pay attention to the real sounds behind it, this is where the influence of both videos has helped encouraged myself to notice the smaller things in their raw form, to focus on what is being said instead of just hearing and continuing with everything else going on. This will be an important characteristic to obtain during my teachings as it will show families and children they are being listened to and taken into consideration.

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I'd never heard of Parallaxis. It sparked my interest, and it inspired me to engage more and be more present throughout my days in my future teaching career. I'm imagining what sounds I would hear and looking at the world through the eyes of a child once more. Everything becomes magical again, and we are reminded of the importance of appreciating nature and the world around us.

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Both Pauline Oliveros' and R Murray Schafer's videos got my attention. I was amazed by how mysterious the process of listening is when Pauline gets into the differences between listening and hearing. It made me think about how many times I've just been hearing sounds rather than listening. Listening, according to Pauline, is a lifetime experience that can be focused on detail or open to experiencing noises, which made me realize that everyone listens differently and that it is not subjective. I found R Murray Schafer's statement that "when you listen carefully, your life is enhanced and more exciting" quite applicable, especially when he stops talking and invites us to listen at the end of the video.

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The sounds, the nature and the movement worked so beautifully together. We can see that they are telling us a story. This will encourage students to experience moving their body both individually and with others; by showing awareness of their body shape and in relation to objects around them. Furthermore, it allows the students to take an interest on the story of Mutton Bird, interpret what they understand from it in different ways and recognise the different cultures dance and may have different reasons for dancing. By using these resources, it allows our students to have a wide range of experience of the Aboriginal people, the people who lived on this land longer then we have. As an educator, I would use this resource to see how to encourage children on their view on the dance and how they would portray it.

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The Bangarra - moving video is one of my favourites because the sounds are absolutely natural. Listening to the sounds of nature makes me feel more comfortable, and this video also highlights the sounds created by the Aboriginal population using native instruments. I had never seen anything like that before, and it was breathtaking. Each gesture they took impacted me deeply; they created something simple yet quite memorable. By bringing in community members, I can see myself adding traditional Aboriginal dancing into my teaching practice.

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The late Pauline Oliveros’ video on active listening brought about a whole new understanding of sound, hearing and listening. There are two quotes that resonate with me, “the ears hear, the brain listens, and the body senses vibrations” and “to hear is the physical means that enables perception, to listen is to give attention to what is perceived (Oliveros 2015). My takeaway from this is that listening involves the subjectivity of life experience into a situational perception of sound. The idea that a memory of sound can last a moment, or a lifetime based on the listening experience.

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Deep sounds of nature by listening deeply

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Deep sounds of nature by listening deeply

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The Aboriginal People practice their spiritual beliefs based on respect of nature. In her video, Rose-Mary (2017) explains the importance of Dadiiri is deep listening to nature spirits which made me think the value of the deep listening and the awareness of the nature. Hamm (2015) states, she was able to imagine the spirits were descending and creating the volcanoes, the rivers, and the trees in her surroundings of the place of Aboriginal history. As human beings, we gradually listen to the nature of life and connect our minds and thoughts with the spiritual nature by deep listening.

As an Educator, I will promote the Aboriginal culture ‘Dadiiri Spirit’ of deep listening of sounds of nature, will help children to understand and respect towards cultural diversity. Developing acknowledgement for Aboriginal wisdom tradition in our practice will help children to value and deepen their connection with the land and nature.

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I adore the notion of Dadirri's video, which allows me to really appreciate the potential of solitude and inner calm. Throughout the video, I sense a strong connection to nature. My body and mind felt relaxed and tranquil towards the end of the video, which motivated me to listen to it again and again. After watching the video, I realized that I needed to devote more time and attention to exploring nature and appreciating its beauty and inner peace. As a teacher, I want to provide students with a variety of opportunities to promote and develop strong relationships to the environment.

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There were a lot of interesting notions in Chapter 16 of ‘Is Beauty a Way of Knowing?' that kept me interested in reading. This chapter demonstrated that children have a lot of potential, but that potential isn't always recognized. Because learning is a lifelong process, it is critical to provide children with the space and time they require to grow and develop. The Hundred Languages 'offers a new vantage point for observing children in their brilliance and ability in developing and advancing their own thinking,' as it was pointed out to me. Young children learn in a variety of ways, which led me to believe that they should be given several opportunities to explore.

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There were a lot of interesting notions in Chapter 16 of ‘Is Beauty a Way of Knowing?' that kept me interested in reading. This chapter demonstrated that children have a lot of potential, but that potential isn't always recognized. Because learning is a lifelong process, it is critical to provide children with the space and time they require to grow and develop. The Hundred Languages 'offers a new vantage point for observing children in their brilliance and ability in developing and advancing their own thinking,' as it was pointed out to me. Young children learn in a variety of ways, which led me to believe that they should be given several opportunities to explore.

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This website was enjoyable to browse over, and I will return to it for future reference in my teaching practice. It reminded me of the importance of children connecting to place (their world) through the natural environment and interactions with educators and other children. When children feel connected to a place, their feeling of belonging grows, their confidence grows, and they believe they can achieve anything. This website will provide me with ideas for putting my experiences into practice in my future teaching profession.

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This website was enjoyable to browse over, and I will return to it for future reference in my teaching practice. It reminded me of the importance of children connecting to place (their world) through the natural environment and interactions with educators and other children. When children feel connected to a place, their feeling of belonging grows, their confidence grows, and they believe they can achieve anything. This website will provide me with ideas for putting my experiences into practice in my future teaching profession.

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We all love different kinds of music and through this video I got to learn how we learn music. Also this video reminds me of my experience with my little sister. When my mom was pregnant with my sister she used to listen to many songs. When my sister was around three years she love to listen to songs and even she stops crying when we play a song for her. Now she is six and I can see how she’s interested to music and listening to songs.  

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We all love different kinds of music and through this video I got to learn how we learn music. Also this video reminds me of my experience with my little sister. When my mom was pregnant with my sister she used to listen to many songs. When my sister was around three years she love to listen to songs and even she stops crying when we play a song for her. Now she is six and I can see how she’s interested to music and listening to songs.  

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As humans, we usually ignore sounds that are around us at a conscious level. We usually choose what we want to hear, and true silence is the soundscape which we har the worlds natural sound is unique. According to Pauline Olivers (2015) and R. Murray Schafer (2017), silence is the level of awareness in soundscape through deep listening. As we listen deeply, we are connected to the real sound of the landscape which will enhance our rich listening and will make sense to our life.

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The Parallaxis game reflected me on watching a silent world movie and the visual parts of my mind that process the sounds while going through the doors and streets. I had the visual ways of going in the pathways and could sense through my lens that my footsteps making the sounds. Knowing this effect is strangely fascination when our sense is guessing and filling our minds with sounds.

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My thoughts on Hundred languages from the video, children mentioned how they haven’t meant the 99 languages, which made me think that educators stole potential moments of learning from their childhood.  After reading these resources, I will allow children the opportunity to explore, express, feelings, and imagination in multiple ways.

Agreeing to Edwards et al (2011, p. 302) noted that “in our ongoing quest to give more excellence and quality to education.” As educator, we play a vital role in providing opportunities to work through children’s ideas and understand their world. In my practice as an Educator, I will use the concept of the Reggio Emilia’s approach by allowing the children to explore their own way of learning. Overall, I believe each child is born with full potential, therefore my goal is to embed 100 languages into practice.

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In the Common world’s website supports young children within their common world environments draws on different kinds of ethical relations with more-than-human, which is focused on terms of exploring and encouraging children’s interactions with place and material nature. The Common World website is one of the rich sources for educators to explore and implement in their teaching practice.

Outdoor play in early years learning, displays evidence that nature play is significantly improves all aspects of children’s development. The nature play is a learning experience for children to have the opportunity to engage in unstructured play settings where they use natural materials to discover the real world around them.

As an educator, I will incorporate outdoor and natural play into my practice that will improve their resilience, self-confidence, imagination, creativity, motor skills and allows children to learn all their senses during their play. Overall, implementing the ‘Common Worlds Framework’ in practice, children will be learning how the real-world works is by exploring the nature play.

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Bangarra Mutton Bird Dance represents Aboriginal cultural history through dance movement. This is one of the most importance part of Aboriginal cultural practices, the Bangarra Dance theatre Australia (2008) states that Mutton Bird is a contemporary Dance that represents the Mutton birds that inhabit the coastal areas of Tasmania. The Bangarra Dance Theatre Performance Video made me feel inspired and gave me the feeling of knowing that Aboriginal spirits were surrounded around me.  The dancer's movements have been determined to be calm, soft, and smooth, which I like the quality of their movements by focusing on how they move their body parts.

As an Educator, I can use the Bangarra education resources which has wide ranges of Aboriginal art performance of storytelling will advance my knowledge. The Mutton bird dance is a great experiment for children to do movements and use different actions by doing this as a group that will encourage children to use different levels and body parts of movement. As an early childhood educator, I would like to focus on movement performance for children. In my practice, I will make a dance sequence and do a mix of different movements for children to dance smoothly and calmly with the music. This will lead to cultural diversity that encourages children to respect and value Aboriginal Culture traditions.

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Musician from birth

Music in early childhood practice has become the most significant part of the early year’s developmental skills, as well as children listening and playing with music helps them to learn literacy, numeracy, and emotional skills. I strongly agree to Wooten (2013) video about how to have a music lifestyle by creating a freedom for children. Children naturally have desire for music and movement, and they learn that movement can communicate messages and actions. My view of music is a powerful resource of communication and the way we express ourselves through movements and listening.

As an Educator I will support children with numerous opportunities to get them moving, thinking, and inspire creatively. As Nilad (2009) stated, ‘children are given a musically enriched environment to bring out the musicality with which they were born.’  I believe having a play-based music education setting is the firmest foundation for children to listen to music will develop solid language skills, also supports children to retain their words and express more effectively.

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The Parallaxis - Shadows and solar spells, the way light projects through different areas create diverse ways of thinking. Shadows can be larger than the object’s reflection through light, which in turn gives rise to a variety of feelings and emotions. I love the way all visual spaces are so varied, open ended, carries us to places further than just the place at hand, gives rise to diverse thoughts, how we move, meanings, which then highlights the importance of enriched resources in spaces that offer opportunities for all children to engage with in their own way. Supporting play spaces, that sheds light on shadows, light, water, which then supports children’s imagination, art, movement, music and dramatic arts, challenges ones thinking and aids in viewing through many lenses. Lights and shadows, becomes a great avenue within ECE settings, I then ask is it an introduction to science?

This also reminds me of a Danish artist Olatur Eliasson, who works in many mediums, but widely known for the use of simple elements like light, water and mirrors, which generates amazing spaces to view.

I also loved watching this clip of a musical artist – Lindsey Sterling – shadows, worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGCsyshUU-A

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I've always been a person that sees the world differently to the people around me, where some see wet trees from rain I see tiny diamonds falling off the trees and clinging to the branches sparkling in the sun, or the crisp crunch of the lawn in a winter morning as the frost hasn't melted off the leaves yet and how it looks like glitter has been thrown on the ground, or the way the wind sounds and smells different as the seasons change from spring to summer and how you can smell the heat in the air in the morning when the day is meant to be burning hot. I believe I can connect to the children using this unique way of seeing things and get down to their level and encourage them to explore and find beauty in the world around them

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The videos of hearing and listening were interesting. It made me think about the power which listening has. And how important the practice of deep listening is for educators. The videos made me reflect on how through listening a misunderstood child can be consoled and reduce frustration. And that through deep listening it can make educators understand the children better. As a pre-service teacher I would like to practice listening whenever someone speaks. To really understand what is being told or asked from me.

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I realised that there are so many sounds throughout the day that I take for granted and no longer hear them or pay attention to them. It makes me wonder what children hear and how they hear and respond to it, are they hearing it for the first time? how does it make them feel? Do they know what it is? For us that answer is simple as we know the answers logically and can answer all those questions, but for a child hearing all these for the first time this is a new adventure in sound. In my classroom I will strive to introduce children to new sounds by finding cds and recordings of things they may not have heard before and asking them how they feel about them and if they can identify what the sound is

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After reading a hundred languages I realised just how much we were missing in our ECE settings I've been in. we don't take into account the different languages children use to communicate with each other and are often heard to say "use your words" when dealing with a conflict or when we wish to know what the children are telling us which misses the point of the way the child is communicating and trying to tell us something. children really use use all things as their disposal to communicate with not only us but with each other and we try to force them to use just once which is their words and their voice when there are other more creative ways children can express themselves

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After watching Victor Wooten's ted talk about music as a language, I have learnt that we underestimate a child's ability and freedom to learn. Often in many cases, music is taught at an older age when they are more 'capable' to learn music. However, I realised that just like language, music is something that a child can develop independently with the influence and environment around them. For example how Vincent had tools and support around him to develop his own sense of musicality.

What really provoked my thoughts was when Vincent mentioned a story about a child who enjoys air guitar but when is taught 'properly' or 'correctly', the child loses their smiles and that it would take a long time before they can get back their smiles. As an educator, I find this really important that we do not force upon children our ideas as what we believe is 'correct' of music because music is a language that is free for all. All children should have the freedom to explore their music and that their musicality should not be limited to tools or instruments.

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in the video movement has been used a form of communication and purpose, it also describes the mutton bird which is the main type of food for the Aboriginal people in Tasmania. This dance reminds me of a story of where you can find the mutton bird and how to identify it by recreation of movements and interpretation

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This website is a wealth of knowledge and explores what children in an ECE setting explore every day and within their daily lives which will continue into adulthood such as feminism, sexism, education, environmental factors, indigenous cultures and their belief systems including their history and oppression and how they need to be included more in every day Australian life. children need to learn all these things and we can fall into the trap of thinking they're too young to understand all these situations. If we explore ways in which to expose children to these issues we can make them child accessible.

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Oliveros and Murray Schafer’s perspectives of deep listening challenge us to listen through hearing sound/s but also sensorially and psychologically feeling sound that is developed through perception and experience.  Murray Schafer suggests we may benefit from removing sounds from our environment, to really listen.

I think about my own life and what sounds I honestly listen to through all the sounds that I hear.  I am reminded about how many times daily my children hear me but are not listening as their focus is elsewhere.

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Critiquing the role of aesthetics in early childhood education is interesting.  In this chapter, Vecchi warns of devaluing aesthetics because “The risk is that our gestures are rushed and hurried, not only children’s but the adult’s as well.  We lose the relationship to what we are doing… Giving meaning is central…” (2011, p. 296).  Children do not hurry through their world.  They take the time they need to engage in meaningful ways.  I need to be actively present in those moments to notice children’s movements and intentions to support their self-expression.

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after watching the video I found I enjoyed the nature sounds and their explanation of them. I believe these can be of great use in an early childhood setting as it could introduce the children to the world around them and ensure they are connected with their world whilst also learning about the land on which they are on. This could also be beneficial for the children in a mindfulness exercise to help the children relax and handle any stress they may be having in their lives. I also believe it is important for children to be aware of the natural world around them as they will inherit it and will need to look after it during their life time and if the children grow to respect it early on they are more likely to look after it in the future and appreciate it

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Music is an important aspect of an early childhood setting, the children enjoy listening to the music and dancing to it, it gives them a an apparent sense of freedom and expression that as adults we forget. They use it to communicate with each other. music introduces children to different genres and types of music from all over the world as well as different instruments from different cultures. this in turn makes them more mindful and curious about other countries and cultures especially of their friends around them. stated by Victor Wooten music is a language and I believe children can use this language of music to communicate with each other in a fun care free way which children need in order to establish their identity

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The Common Worlds Research Collective is a great resource for EC educators especially when teaching young children to change our way of stereotypical thinking about how to find resources that connect young children’s experiences with humans, other species and nature. Many resources included in this website highlights the feminist perspectives, views of indigenous Aboriginal community and the ideas of environmental researchers.  The artifacts are produced in the forms of digital performing arts integrating sound, video, photographic recordings and digital story telling highlighting the philosophies of indigenous Aboriginal community of Canada and Wurundjeri country stretches between Victoria and South Australia. The writers encourage children’s participation in exploring the nature by means of technology to create awareness of nature and human connectedness mainly using phones to record artifacts using ‘face timing’. According to Donna Haraway (2016), stories of human relationship and the respect for nature can be best stored with children using technologies. Next to a photo of a dead bird, she mentions “In Cruickshank Park, we understand our encounters with dead and dying birds as stories of urgency”.

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Pauline Oliveros and Murray Schafer both talked about how developing greater listening skills enriches and enhances ones life. I think this is true on many levels, especially in relationship with others. When my children or husband are telling me something I try to stop what I am doing and focus on what they are saying. We can have so much better appreciation of the world around us when we stop to listen to the sound of the birds, the wind in the trees, water flowing. I was very interested in what Pauline said about the difference between hearing and listening - the ear hears, the brain listens. Listening isn't the same for everyone because our brain interprets what we hear. In the cistern, the musicians had to listen to the echos and adjust what they played. This is a great example of learning to listen well in all of life. As we listen to others, we need to take it in and process it, adjust our thinking and then respond in an appropriate way.

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Bangara is a special kind of a dancing performance popular among Aborginal community in Australia by representing the ‘aesthetic’ features of the Mutton bird. Why they have chosen Mutton bird is a bit of an inquiry for me. However, upon research living in a multi-cultural world each and every ethnicity has their own beliefs and traditions that we need to be mindful and respectful so I do not like not to comment on that. However, by watching the video I get a myriad of assumptions such as using the purple to color their bodies may reflect that they get a blessing from the Mutton bird, three performers in the ‘dance’ pass their meaningful traditions (may be spirituality or customs) to the future generation in an abstract way

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While I found this article a little difficult to comprehend, a few things really spoke to me. For example, the need to understand deeply 'children's complex ways of knowing the world around them', and to have an educational response that is worthy of children. This involves embracing knowledge that has beauty at the centre. I think, in practice, this means having time ourselves, and allowing children to have time, to pause and to wonder, to take in the detail and the beauty of things. We need to give our imaginations room to move and to consider the 'what if?' I think it is important not to separate disciplines, especially in early childhood. Life is not separated into compartments. The things children learn should be grounded in real-life situations.

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While playing this game, I personally realized how many things we have taken for granted when we walk in the city. The creator of this game, Kilby (2017), media arts and visual artifacts that relate aesthetic appeal and city life are being successfully transformed into an artistic play practice that mesmerize the players’ pause, awareness, sight, sound, smell and sensation in a multi-dimensional perspective. “This is a new form of gaming evolved in the early 2000, that extended the magic circle of play spatially, temporally, or socially (Kilby 2017, p. 6)

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Common worlds take account of children's relations with all the others in their worlds — including the more-than-human others. This entire article made me realize how important it is for children to explore the environment and gain new understandings about and perspectives of their coastal world. This reading is challenging us to decentre the human entities and inclusion of non-human ethics in early years setting.

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Children use 100 languages to communicate with others-Reggio Philosophy 

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Children use 100 languages to communicate with others-Reggio Philosophy 

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The theory of one hundred languages of children found by Loris Malaguzzi in his renowned philosophy of Reggio Emilia, children are viewed as confident and involved learners who can construct their own understandings and meaningful contexts through the environment that they live in. Environment is the third teacher and the EC practitioner is a guide and a co-constructor of knowledge in children’s early learning and development especially through a curriculum enriched with activities of physical & symbolic representation of culture and nature through experiences of aesthetics, poetics and dramatic arts (Cooper 2011, p 295-296). This chapter avidly describes that culture-based themes, aesthetic and dramatic art experiences of human life are powerful tools to connect the child observation, theories of human development and children’s language development in a succinct way. Further it emphasizes on “learning and teaching be modified and enriched if school culture welcomed the poetic languages and an aesthetic dimension as important elements for building knowledge” (p 296). According to Reggio, from the child’s perspective, ‘from the beginning, children demonstrate that they have a voice, that they know how to listen and that they want others to listen to them’ (Rinaldi 2011 p. 237).

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By listening to both videos Pauline and Murray, I get the idea that deep listening and listening for the ‘sake’ of listening do not convey the same message. It was interesting to note that Pauline says pause and listen to the ‘voices’ that surrounds you but unnoticed. Once you do this several times, sometimes when we hear the same thing with a focused mind the interpreted meaning is quite different to what we heard before. From my perspective, deep listening is a skill that we need to develop gradually, like mindfulness or meditation with lot of practice and pattern. When we train our minds to distract from materialistic world and listen carefully to our surrounds, Murray’s ideology is, we attune our minds to stay still and focus on abstractness of sounds rather than the physical interpretation of the ‘voice’.

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Reading from the Bangarra Dance Theater’s production of the Mutton Bird dance, the contemporary dance is a representation of the mutton birds that inhabits the coastal area of Tasmania. Its significance is that it is a totem to the clan to which Mathinna belonged to. She was a Tasmanian Aboriginal girl who lived in the early 1800s, in which the production of the dance inspiration came from.

The dancers are seen suspended in the air, with their feet secured by foothold that are built into a solid beam. The shapes that the dancers create with their bodies, reflect the mutton birds as they hover above the ground. The dancers move mostly in unison as they twist and turn, smoothly folding their bodies upwards and unfolding them back down.

As I watch the video, ideas of activities and ways to allow children to experience moving their body both individually and

with others, pop into my head. I could use this video to show and give them opportunities to develop an awareness of, and how they might be able to isolate different parts of their body and make specific actions and gestures.

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Oliveros and Murray Schafer’s perspectives of deep listening are connected to the environment around us all.  They challenge us to listen through hearing sound/s but also sensorially and psychologically feeling sound that is developed through perception and experience.  Murray Schafer thinks we might benefit from removing sounds from our environment, to really listen.

I think about my own daily life and how much sound I honestly listen to through all the sounds that I hear, I know there are a lot of sounds that redirect my attention.  I am reminded about how many times daily my children hear me but are not listening as their focus is elsewhere.

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As I was reading his text, I had come to the conclusion that children should play through interaction and exploring. As children develop this is a significant part for their development. The children get to interact and feel connected to other things, the culture, the land and the people. I feel like it is a good website I would love to use for myself as a new and future educator. It gave me many ideas I can take on with me. This is good for educators to understand and provide children different opportunities/ activities for children indoors and outdoors to implement and to help their development/ learning. this website is very informative and I was on it for awhile.

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When reading the hundred languages I was very intrigued with it. As I was reading it I was come to terms with that every child learns in a different way. This could mean by talking, communication, body language and listening. As educators we should be to engage with a child’s learning, providing them a safe and open ended environment with opportunities for all children and their development. They should all be able to have the resources they can access to help their learning. we should help children to express themselves.

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The role of educators is to provide children with the resources and skills they need in order to help them further learn and develop during their early childhood stages in life. It is important for things to go smoothly for the children when trying to further develop skills for their future lives. Conversely, making sure that the child is learning what the educator only interrupts the child when needed. Children should not feel pressured or rushed into by educators/adults as this may cause the child to feel overwhelmed and not want to take part in learning. Therefore, this article made me realise that there are so many ways in expressing ourselves and a role that plays a big factor with the learning and development of children is distraction/disorientation.

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Emily- Both the videos viewed listening as something that we should give more attention too and to focus more intently on the finer details that surround us. Pauline Oliveros describes listening as a lifetime practice that depends on accumulated experiences with sound. As individuals we take for granted the pleasure of listening and hearing sounds and objects around us. Sometimes there is too much to listen to for example when you’re at a shopping centre there are hundreds of different voices around you noises like music and trolleys that it is quite hard to just focus on one sound. So, it is quite hard to pinpoint and focus on one sound so you would be open to the entire field of sound. Pauline mentioned that ‘listening is a mysterious process that is not the same for everyone.’ This can be made relevant when listening to music, not all people enjoy listening to the same music so one individual might really enjoy listening to classical music whereas another individual might not process the music in the same pleasurable way and not understand or enjoy listening to the certain pieces of music. It is very important in everyday life to take pleasure in listening to our local surroundings and enjoy the noises we take to easily for granted and to listen intently to the birds in the morning or the subtle noise of the traffic in the distance to really appreciate and understand the difference between listening and hearing.

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After watching the two videos, I realised that nowadays we hear more than we listen. I used to assume that hearing and listening are basically the same. However, Pauline made me realise that listening is much more deeper than hearing and that I have been hearing more than listening all the time. Listen is to pay attention to what you hear, the ears hear but the brain listens. As a part of the younger generation, I have always sat with my laptop, got annoyed by the noises from the street. I rarely pay attention to the comfy sounds around me such as my cat's purring, the birds chirping. I missed all these experiences because I only hear and I never carefully listen to what surrounds me. After watching these videos, I feel like my perspective has changed and that I realised the importance of deep listening which can bring you a whole new point of view, how you think and how you act. This change of mind set will support me in my future career as an educator.

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After browsing through the Common World’s website, there are many resources given for the types of teaching careers there is to offer. This website consists of exploring the relationship amongst children with their place, materials, species and feminist common wording methods. This is a really important source as it will give more useful information to pre-teacher services in relation to the beneficial approaches to take onboard when they are situated in a similar environment representing real life purposes.

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The website is full of useful resources that allows not only educators but parents, guardian etc. to understand and learn about significant topics that relates to children early learnings such as the indigenous, feminist, and environmental investigation.
It allows us to look at these topics as a subheading to the main title, which is children education rather than thinking of it as an individual subject. This encourages you to look at other perspective rather than just your own view of your thoughts and ideas that have been already made.

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Even when they are not speaking, they have 100 ways to express themselves. My teaching philosophy deeply resonates with Reggio Emilio’s ‘The 100 Languages of Children’ approach where I believe that children don’t all learn or do the same things at the same time and there isn’t a ‘correct’ way of learning.  So instead of suppressing children’s a child’s expressive methods in an attempt to teach them the ‘right’ way, we need to take a step back and encourage children to express themselves freely so they (and we) can discover an abundance of ‘languages’.

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The concept of the atelier has come up repeatedly in the progress of our course this year.  Learning to think more deeply about the inclusion and role of aesthetics in the atelier, and in early childhood education is worthy of consideration.  Vecchi warns of the peril of disregarding the role of culture and beauty in stating “The risk is that our gestures are rushed and hurried, not only children’s but the adult’s as well.  We lose the relationship to what we are doing… Giving meaning is central…” (Vecchi cited in Edwards et al. 2011, p. 296).  For me this highlights that children do not inhabit a world of hurry and rush.  They take the time they need to process, listen and engage in what is meaningful to them.  As an educator, I need to be actively present in those moments to notice children’s movements and intentions to support their self-expression.

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Reading from the chapter, the main concept of course is how children’s full potential are not always recognized. Learning is also a continuous process and for school to be a place ‘for supporting, expanding, and creating learning of children’, this means that we need to ‘continually provoke children’s natural propensities to search for meaning, to pose questions of themselves and others, and to interpret the phenomena of their own lives’.

A set structured environment won’t always work for every individual child as there are different ways how children learn and it’s not always the matter of being great academically, some learn creatively and visually while others learn auditory or learning through touch. Understanding what works for each individual child means that we can promote children capabilities to the best and that their voices are heard and supported.