All about that ‘Gamification’ in music education. We have come a long way since the days when I used to spend countless hours playing Sega Mega Drive and thinking the graphics were so real that my house was in fact being invaded by space aliens. There was a lot of discussion on the pros and cons of using games in music education and the research behind it. I personally am for it but not in the sense that students get rewards for progressing in games as I want them to have intrinsic motivation, I’d rather use Gamification to make the learning process more fun and memorable. There were some websites that were mentioned like http://rhythmdr.com, https://isleoftune.com, https://teachedm.com and https://learningmusic.ableton.com. I found the ‘teach EDM’ course interesting as a class unit if a school was willing to pay the license fee, I think students would be totally engaged and it would be accessible to those with no music experience. I was super intrigued by https://www.coursera.org/learn/music-education as it allows you to do a heap of short courses on varying topics from leading universities AT YOUR OWN PACE!!! ALL YEAR ROUND!!! AND ITS FREE!!! ……….unless you want a certificate at the end… but still I really think that’s cool and want to do a few short courses on the music business side of things. Later we discussed the effect of technology on the human brain, analysed some research and the consensus is not good … on that note I’d better do some mindfulness before this screen traps me in its matrix.
JohnMuTech 