Today was a day to reflect and relieve stress from upcoming exams. We were able to work on our assignments/exam prep. I used this lesson as a day of reflection of this course and, what journey I was on. Before coming into this course no, before this degree, I haven't thought much about the endless options of ways and methods of teaching. I only understood the end product, what I have seen and what I have experienced as a student. Becoming a teacher is such an amazing process because we were all once students and now we are now understanding the process of being a teacher and what it means to be one.
Technology in Music Education, isn't something I would have thought would be relevant a few years ago, but now I see the importance of it. I was lucky enough to have the support of the staff at SCM and peers studying Mued to help me through this cycle of learning and teaching. I ended up finding a partner for my project because I didn't know enough about coding but by including Ish into my project, I am able to learn from Ish and understand coding a lot better than just having to google the answer. I am thankful for Rowena Stewart for helping me via online meetings, trying to figure out the problems I was facing with my project. I am also thankful for Dr. James Humberstone who has been constantly supplying me with all the support and materials for this unit, for putting up with my constant confusion of what everything is...and almost burning my bed down. And lastly, I am thankful for Brad Fuller, for co-lecturing with James and at the end taking over the lectures. It has been so insightful with your knowledge of technology and LMS. I have learnt a lot about microphone from Brad that I never thought I needed to know but now I do. I hope the rest of my journey in MuEd will be as hectic and exiting as this one!
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Welcome to 6pm high where we learn at 6pm in the EVENING! In today's class we looked at different LMS (learning management systems) within a classroom setting. From personal experience I have used Canvas since high school and Google Classroom. Both have their pros and cons. In todays class we were told to create our very own CANVAS page and as a class we created 6pm high! Another LMS that was very popular in my high school was Kahoot. It was always a nice treat the teachers would use even though it was still a way to access the class' understanding of a certain topic. I did create some Kahoot when I was in high school which I will now share which are about the concepts of Music.
https://create.kahoot.it/share/tone-colour/b32cb8fd-b8d3-489d-b19e-c15ca311e4b2 It is very weird seeing how Technology in Education as a whole is evolving and having classrooms online. I remember in early primary this wasn't as common even in junior high school. But as more research is done, it is proven that LMS is a viable way of teaching and monitoring student activies. After a nice mini break for special projects week we are back again for another week of TME!
This lesson was a little different and our topic was "BYOD" (Bring your own device). There are obviously pros and cons of this idea. In this research article "Bring your own device in Education" reviews the pros and cons of BYOD. Coming from a primary school and of lower socio-economical area and then going to a independent catholic high school. I have experiences both the effects of BYOD. Like mentioned in the article, it does is cost effective because students are bringing in their own devices and if they wanted to fix or add anything it was up to the student. However this can be flipped, like in my primary school, families there wouldn't have enough to spare for a new device and it would be very difficult for them to set aside money on top of the students education to bring in their own device. Even so, maintaining a device does also come with costs. Another problem would be monitoring students activity, my high school gave out laptops which was included in our school fees which also implemented a program where teachers can view our screen from their device whenever they wanted. As a student it does seem like a breach of privacy but it is important that students are staying on task and doing what they should be. However, since we are in the year of the pandemic, COVID-19 has created new talk about BYOD and how it is soooo important nower days. Without technology students wouldn't be able to continue their study over Zoom or other video meeting programs. The second portion of our lesson we looked at both bandLab and io-808. Personally I really disliked io-808, it took me too long to figure out what we happening, however Bandlab was very similar to Soundtrap but still I do prefer soundtrap because of the visuals and the ease of it. Today we pitch our major project to our class. Since I did start early I was semi-ready for this day. My project was to create an Arduino instrument that would be extended to something else which I haven't thought about yet. The reasoning behind doing something that evolved coding was to demonstrate that tech Music Education doesn't have to be just remixing using Ableton or using Soundtrap, but it can be even more hands on and different like coding. There was an ABC news article on a Melbourne Musician who coded a synthesizer and performed it live. I really like the idea of using STEM in Music Education, finally closing that gap and divide between STEM and Music.
Article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-21/live-coding-australia-music-computer-code/11301114 After hearing a whole bunch of amazing ideas, from e-books to music videos, we had a look at some other teaching resources like the artiphon and mini launchpad. The artiphon was a cool looking midi controller that can interchange between instruments. The mini launchpad remind me of the the free ipad launchpad you can download on the app store...(which I have...many). |
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