I thought this week's articles were fairly informative.
The creative thinking and technology article's content was not at all revolutionary to me. However, it wasn't the content, but the thought process that it provoked that mattered. After reading this article, I started thinking about all of the different ways that I can integrate technology into my future teaching career in order to seamlessly adopt the TPACK strategy. In short, this article was good for its provocation more so than its specific content.
The Vermont MIDI Project article was fascinating. What a revolutionary way to incorporate composition, improvisation, music theory, performace practice, distance learning, and collaboration! This is an absolutely fantastic project, and I can only hope to be involved in something a fraction as good, let alone start such a venture.
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It's good to always realize new ways to use technology with students. TPACK is not a strategy to be used, but that place where your technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and content knowledge intersect. All of these things help you determine which technology is best suited for you to teach the objective effectively.
ReplyDeleteAs you stated, I also felt that the articles were very good to provoke thoughts about how technology could be used in music education. A lot of times it takes a stimulus to get you thinking about all the different ways that you could do something. I also thought that this article provided that stimulus. Although I did find that a lot of the ways that were described to use the software were concepts that I am already utilizing, the article did make me do a lot of thinking about how I could utilize technology in a more useful manner and how I could use technology in the music classroom in different ways. Hopefully, we will be able to continue to find better ways to incorporate technology into the music classroom.
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