Monday, October 21, 2013
The Pedagogical Uses of Technology
I chose this lesson because it has students compose their own music. I believe that critical thinking and creativity truly happen when students are given the tools to create and the space to create in. As teachers it is quintessential to create a place for students to grow individually. This is a lesson where theory and composing are used to create a strong foundation for students understanding of music as a language. Technology is our medium. We as the collective class will be utilizing one of the three music software programs: Sibelius, Finale, or note flight. These three programs are all notation programs; note flight is the only free one but also is the one with the least amenities and is of a lower quality. It's integration of technology is critical for efficiency. Since our technology is a computer, a program, and hopefully midi keyboard students gain the NJCCS 1.3.5.B.3.in their lesson. For most world composers now a day's sharing collaborating and communicating music is done through the technologies we will be using in this lesson. Without this technology the efficiency of this lesson and of sharing music would suffer greatly. The standards could be met but it would not be as fulfilling of an experience without it. I believe the students will get a well rounded lesson out of this. They will enjoy that they get to create their own music. They will enjoy their genre discussion. Hopefully they will be able to use their theory knowledge on a keyboard, which would facilitate learning some basic piano knowledge. This is a really multifaceted lesson, it really hits the crucial points NJCCS, use of technology, and teaching to the whole child.
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With tech labs growing in music ed programs programs like finale will be how will teach our students music theory and its crazy how people do not take complete advantage of this technology. Imagine and call where student do their work on a computer and a teacher has access to each screen through a bigger computer meanwhile the program makes corrections and marks the scores for the student this way they can see how close the were to being correct while receiving feedback all in a real time situation. Nice lesson plan!
ReplyDeleteMiguel, this is a solid effort and analysis of a lesson plan. I have a few questions about your blogpost and your spreadsheet: How are you using the term "efficiency," when describing the learning environment in your blogpost above? I'm wondering if it's qualitative (related to learning experience) rather than quantitative. Or maybe it's both. Just make sure YOU know what you mean by the "efficiency" of technology. Second, when you mapped your lesson plan in your spreadsheet, were you thinking about the 3 columns aligning by rows? In other words, does each technology in the right column support a teaching strategy in the middle column, that in turn meets a curriculum standard? If you think if it this way, then there is not a lot of alignment across, is there? The goal by the end of this course is to create that alignment—either through modifying our strategies or technologies, or both.
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