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Technology in Art and Music Instruction. Session Seven EDT 612. Educators’ Views. Using computers and other instructional technologies creates a contradiction in blending impersonal machines with traditionally humanistic endeavors in the classroom
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Technology inArt and Music Instruction Session Seven EDT 612
Educators’ Views • Using computers and other instructional technologies creates a contradiction in blending impersonal machines with traditionally humanistic endeavors in the classroom • In reality, technology has always played a role in the arts.
Why teach music and the arts? • Technological advances compel schools to place more weight than ever on teaching the arts • Help students develop the values and sensibilities that will enable them to function as healthy citizens in an artificial, high tech environment
Issues and Problems • Separate versus interdisciplinary arts instruction: use collaboration • Arts and communications program: critics worry about depth of knowledge when cross-disciplinary • “Kids ‘n Blues” CD: songs from over 650 students in Memphis, TN; teachers worked across grade levels
Standards inArts Education • Goals 2000 initiative was expanded to include the arts • Start preparing kids in the lower grades for deeper and more rigorous work each year • The joy of experiencing the arts is enriched and matured by the pride of accomplishment
Standards • Be able to communicate at a basic level in the four arts disciplines: • Dance • Music • Theatre • Visual Arts
Standards • Be able to communicate proficiently in at least one art form, with the ability to define and solve artistic problems with insight, reason, and technical proficiency
Standards • Have an informed acquaintance with exemplary works of art from a variety of cultures and historical periods • plus a basic understanding of historical development in the arts disciplines, across the arts as a whole, and within cultures
Issues and Problems • Academic versus Studio • Students receive one hour a week of instruction • At the end of elementary or middle school, students with art talent are redirected towards elective courses • Smaller number of kids learn art
How Technology is Integrated into the Arts • Hardware: scanners, digital camera: both foster creativity • Paint and Draw Software: spans all ages of students • Animation, Graphics, and 3-D Design Software: simple cell to PhotoShop to morphing images
How Technology is Integrated into the Arts • Desktop Publishing with graphics • Video: increases student motivation to learn • The Internet (again): offers a large number of resources such as museums, multi-cultural field trips to gather examples of art and music around the world
Useful Web Sites • AMICO: Art Museum Image Collection with 65,000 thumbnail images of works of art to review online http://www.amico.net/home.html • ArtsEdge: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/artsedge.html
Useful Web Sites • ArtsEdNet: http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ • Web Museum: http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/ • The Art Teacher Connection: http://primenet.com/~arted
Issues and Problems in Music Education • Theory or Performance? • Basic competence in understanding and appreciating music versus • learn by doing and should spend most of their instructional time performing music • Standards are a balance of both
How Technology is Integrated into Music Ed • MIDI: musical instrument digital interface • It assigns a number to every aspect of musical sound including pitch, length and instrument • When the MIDI device receives these numbers, it plays the sounds
How Technology is Integrated into Music Ed • MIDI Synthesizers and Networks: • electronic musical instruments are the cornerstone of music technology • Piano-like keyboards replicate the sounds of both acoustic instruments like guitar and original sound effects like TV sound effects
Sequencers • Software in this category enables users to record, edit, and play back music. • A composer can save short sequences and then easily manipulate them and paste them together to form larger works.
Other Music Tools • Musical Notation Software • Multimedia Software • Instructional Software • Video with teacher guides • The Internet (again)
Useful Websites • American Canvas: • http://arts.endow.gov/NEAText/Community/ • Music Educators National Conference http://www.menc.org/ • Worldwide Music Resources: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
Useful Websites • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame • http://www.rockhall.com/educate/lssnplan/index.html • Immersion in Music: http://ready.cpb.org/edtech/k12testbed/kunm.html