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Article: New learning system's music to young ears; Innovators turn English texts into modern songs as an aid to revision.
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Byline: Katie Norman
A PAIR of young entrepreneurs are helping pupils of the iPod generation to sing their way to GCSE English success.
An audio revision tool to break down classical texts on the English literature syllabus and turn them into rock and pop songs for pupils to download has been devised Nathan Dicks, 26, and Geraint Brown, 27, through their Swansea-based firm Rewise Learning.
The initiative called LearnThruMusic is being delivered in schools in the Swansea, Caerphilly and Merthyr Tydfil areas. It includes five professionally produced ...