Technology and Pedagogy

This lesson is particularly used for K-3 elementary students. First, it starts off with students watching a short clip on YouTube so that they could listen and see which character plays what instrument. The students can imagine the instruments in their mind while they listen to the sound of the instrument. This way, the students can be inspired and possibly challenged to start to learn the instrument that they were interested in. It seems that there was no gaps between the curriculum goals and teaching strategies. One of the curriculum goals for this lesson was for the students to understand the music elements such as rhythms, tempo, tones of the music and instrumentations. In this lesson, there were a few sections that used technology, which were arranged pretty well because as you see in my spreadsheet, the teaching strategies, and the standards were well connected with the use of technology. In this lesson, technology was used in class by watching the video clip on YouTube and listening to songs on iTunes. Using YouTube and iTunes is very helpful tool in music class because it involves listening. These resources are available and easy to access for anyone who is interested. Using technology in a classroom helps motivate the students. For instance, other technology such as smart-board, projectors, and other music apps can support the teaching strategies and the standards goals by having students to engage in the activities that the lesson has provided. Since this lesson is about rhythms, using music apps can help students to create their own beats, tempo, and rhythms as they improvise their own music as they use the instruments that they are given.