Hello World!
Week one was the introduction to MUE 6696: Technology Assisted Music Learning. This course is eight weeks long, so I had the opportunity to go through the syllabus and get an overview of what the course would entail. The course description is listed as a class that will explore the role of digital technologies in creating, performing, and responding to music with applications to lifelong music learning and participation. I believe this is very relevant to education today, especially after COVID-19 forced education to happen virtually for a while and all educators had to incorporate technology into their daily teaching.
Module 1 "A Conceptual Framework for Technology Assisted Music Learning" opened with a video outlining the week and what TPACK is and the importance of it in the music education world. TPACK is the combination of technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge when teaching. Content knowledge is the material being taught. Pedagogical knowledge is how the materials is taught. Technological knowledge is the partner to the first two whose job is make the content more accessible to students and support the pedagogical strategies identified. The picture below illustrates how TPACK works individually and how the overlapping works together.
The content of music education involves creating, performing, and/or responding to music. This can look like playing an instrument, singing, writing or arranging music, improvisation, listening to or analyzing music.
Social media is also a part of this course and in the first week, students were given the task of creating a blog (the one you happen to be reading) and also creating a twitter account using the hashtag #UFMUE to establish an account solely based on the music educations parts of the social media. Through the hashtag I was able to find and follow many of my classmates and professors and see not only their thoughts on the current work week, but also some of the things going on in their respective classrooms.
Lastly, and my favorite part, students were given the task of learning about Incredibox, a music app that allows the user to create music using pre determined beats and sound affects that can be looped and edited until the user is happy with the end result. The app does have a charge, but the only demo is enough to use in a music classroom setting. Navigating through the website is pretty straight forward and creating the music is fun! Incredibox can be used in any grade level that is old enough to use a computer or phone and simple enough to have students create their own work without too much input from the teacher beyond the initial explanations on how the app works. I have included a couple of the MANY creations I have made this week.
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