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Welcome!! What’s real? Today’s Technology lesson was all about how real the integration of technology in Sydney schools, based on our own practicum placements. We also looked at performance technologies and technology for performance as opposed to being used for composing music. Looking at using technology to perform from synthesisers to digital DJing decks, loop pedals and other interfaces. Some technologies we took at look at include: Artiphon- guitar controller
Ableton Live- program where you plug launch pads in and create
Gadget- Step sequencer $50/ on the ipad Bitwig- another software The reading for this week’s lecture was Chapter 6 of Pamela Burnard and Finney’s book ‘Music Education with Digital Technology’ written by Dave Chales, which discusses technology as a replacement for education by slowly incorporating it into education for those students that have been kicked out or dropped out of school. Chales starts with a set of ‘Turn tables’- goes through the process of getting students to understand they can learn to DJ, their DJ heroes didn’t use other people’s music but create their own music and some self- taught. The students soon realise they can extend what they are doing to create their own beats, through use of Reason, Ableton and FL (Fruit loops) studios (reason- software initially most popular). The use of Popular music is most relatable for many students as students are surrounded by the Pop culture. Students learn Beat programming- software composing, effects, duplicating and programming Another topic raised in this week’s lecture is How much does Technology translate into schools/ education? Debates for and against technology in education have been formulated. Some points put forward include:
For access to Ableton live here is the link: www.Learning music.ableton.com (website) Extra concepts- Pedagogical aims: Flipped learning: don’t think of school as what happens first but as fun
Blended learning:
Hype cycle: get a new tech, become excited, use it, fails-
Smart sparrow:
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