The benefits to having this technology in the classroom is convenience. Though my slides were written for a very broad music class there are all sorts of way's 21st Century Skills can be incorporated into it. There are music programs that are now available that quiz the listener using musicianship skills. This means, the program will play a musical interval and the user must identify electronically the distance of that interval. This may be to advanced for a beginner class but is very appropriate for highschool students. As said in CPI # 1.3.12.B.1 "Analyze compositions from different world cultures and genres with respect to technique, musicality, and stylistic nuance, and/or perform excerpts with technical accuracy, appropriate musicality, and the relevant stylistic nuance". That is the reason why I included "Creativity and Innovation" in my slides. Both creativity and innocation are applicable to all age ranges. The use of creativity and innovation in a music classroom is vital to getting students to think for themselves and develop musical idea's.
I definitely agree, creativity and innovation are very important in a music classroom. That's very interesting that there is a program that quizzes students on their music skills, technology is really affecting all areas of learning!
ReplyDeleteI like you slide presentation, as a fellow musician and soon to be teacher, I found that it was to pretty easy to try and incorporate all of the 4 C's into a lesson plan. But I like how you have the students compare and contrast different styles and era's of music to in order to see and appreciate creativity and innovation
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you will be teaching them how to play music or just the theory. Are you going to have students play some music and compare how different composers in different era's wrote it, how music evolved over time?
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