Friday, July 25, 2008
Music Classrooms Embracing Technology
I've often wondered how we can bring technology into the music classroom without loosing that personal touch of the teacher-student relationship. Today, we live in an uber simple social-networking climate with Facebook, MySpace, Hi-5 and all the other places that people can go to connect with old and new friends, as well as connect with businesses. From this, it seems to me, that education, specifically music education, can get in on the use of the technology that is out there and get it into the music classroom. I'm not advocating that we just use computer-aided instruction, but I can see how bringing in outside presenters via use of the net that our classrooms can benefit from all of the social networking. If I dream for even a few seconds, I can see top-rate musicians speaking to schools about the importance of music or even giving a live music workshop to a band class. Now, that would be a great connect for both the students and the performers!
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