The Hunt!

Today was a seminar on the use of technology in the classroom in regards to running a self-managed website. The guest teacher had made an interactive website where students can select what they wanted to do in the lesson and slowly progress through the levels e.g. Garage Rehearsal, The Local Gig, National Tour and International Fame; each of these subjects had many components like listening, composing etc. The teacher said this method was introduced as a means of classroom management as the kids at her school were very unruly, so explicit teaching through online tutorials seemed to be effective. An idea that I got from this class was that differentiation can occur in a single activity/task itself, you don’t need to have 3 separate tasks for beginner, intermediate and advanced. We concluded the class by having an online scavenger hunt, answering musical questions and acquiring musical images utilizing gmail, google classroom, google docs and google drive. It was useful as I am not well-versed in any of these programs and as you can imagine … I didn’t finish first 🙂

Oooh also got a link to an online version of an io-808 drum machine (expensive in real life) https://io808.com/.