Class objectives met through this review:
1. Learn ways to promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students conceptual understanding.
5. Evaluate and reflect on emerging tools and trends by reviewing current research and professional literature
Technolgy can be a challenge at every level level in the educational sysytem for many vast reasons. Teachers may feel inadiquite with their knowlege and teaching skills. Students are arriving with pre technology skills even entering a Kindergarten classroom. Technology intergration is taking place at lightening speed in content areas at every grade level. What about music? What benefits can technology offer?
According to an article written by David Rath, (2014) 4 Ways Technology can Make your Music Lesson Sing. He states there is a concern with many schools that are teaching music in the same way for decades and students are missing out on tools that can enhance their music abilities.
Tablets instead of Paper
By changing from paper music to using ipads and tablets students are more interactive in their learning, they can access apps to annotae their scores, teaachers can send audio -recordings allowing students to practice and play along, students can use apps for writing their own music and make tracks.(p.2)
A director of chiors at Oltman middle school in St. Park, MN, voiced concerns having technology as a pedagogy tool such as students that can make bad decisions in ways to use the ipads and tablets by playing games such a mindcraft. But further states many improvements are being made to control those concern with lock out features.
Composing
An Elementary school music teacher ar Far Hills Country Day School, New Jersey began to implement technology to intoduce non traditional ways of learning music and credits apps such as NoteFlight, where students as young as second grade can compose simple melodies and play them.
http://noteflight.appappeal.com/
Technology can enhance performance by using virtual instruments apps onto ipads and plugs them into a sound system and can support students that struggle with fine motor skills. Tools such as iDoceo also are used for assessments because it captures performances and students can see their progress.http://www.idoceo.net/
Rehearsing Via social Media
Teacher Lori Pirzer, director of bands and music at Oak Middle school in Newberry, FL uses interactive projector along with software apps such as TonalEnergy Tuner to help students improve their sound.
Students can visually see if they are sharp, flat or on time on a white board. Using apps such as SmartMusic offer students feed back on their performance and Edmundo for social media platform to communicate with students and parents.
TonalEnergy Toner: www.tonalenergy.com
SmartMusic: http://www.smartmusic.com/products/students/
Finale: www.nch.com.au/notation
Utilizing technology teaching tools that incorporate software application, media, and social media teachers are able to give students an edge on their own learning. Students will become more proficient in the subject matter, be more engaged in their learning by interactive engagement and enhance their own creativity as well as set higher expectations in their learning. Technology may be scary for some teachers but stepping out of our comfort zone to help ensure students will have a real edge in building their education, we need to embrace the tools, learn the tools, and engage in students learning. Technology is reaching across the grades and globe.. The posiblilities are endless even in Music.
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