Technology in Music Education
Class 1 7/14

There is a wealth of information in today's readings. Actually, a lot of it was lists and activities for familiarizing students with different file types, recording procedures for audio and video, file conversion, file manipulation, uploading, downloading and a host of other projects.

Another bit of valuable information is the consolidation list that equates the TI:ME standards with both national academic standards and national music education standards. For those of us who need to carefully document that we have taught what the law requires, it is a way of reconciling what we need to teach with what we have to teach.

There is also a great deal of justification to teach music using technology. Notice that I did not write "teaching music technology". The emphasis in the music classroom should always be teaching music, but several reasons for doing so through technology are heightened interest and attention, varying teaching methods, and the state requires teachers to use technology in all subject areas. Besides all that, it's just fun to mix it up every now and then.