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Secondary Music - Introduction
Module 1 Contents
  1. Introduction and why ICT?
  2. Task 1
  3. Links and bibliography

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Introduction

The purpose of this first module is to help you assess your own current level of expertise using ICT, and to develop a plan for how you and your department will move forward in using ICT. You will be asked to:

These documents will form the basis of your portfolio. (The submission of a portfolio of work is a requirement for successful completion of the training)

Audit of personal ICT skills

The personal audit covers five categories that relate to the Expected Outcomes of the NoF Training.

Audit of ICT resources available to your department

ICT can be used to enhance teaching and learning in all areas of the music curriculum, for example by enabling pupils to:

ICT can be used for personal and professional tasks, for example by enabling teachers to:

Summary of ICT resources:

Music specific ICT resources (software, hardware and peripherals) available include those used for:

Generic ICT resources available include those used for

Additional ICT resources available for teachers' personal and professional use

More information about music ICT resources is available in Module 2 (Identifying resources) of these materials. 

Rationale: why ICT?

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is found in all aspects of both amateur and professional music making. In most cultures, the use of modern music technology is becoming an intrinsic part of composing, performing and listening. Pupils are surrounded by new forms of media and technology in their lives outside school. Music technology can help students link their musical experiences outside the classroom to the learning which takes place inside the classroom. ICT can also offer students new ways to create, organise and present music. Using music technology in the classroom offers alternative ways of learning to those children who may experience difficulty with more conventional approaches.

Effective learning is best achieved where ICT experiences are carefully planned and support subject teaching and learning objectives.

ICT can also enable students to achieve results not possible using conventional technology. Although using ICT can pose some additional technical difficulties for students, these should be balanced by obvious benefits.

Practical considerations for music departments developing their use of ICT include issues relating to:

Teachers new to ICT will find the Primary and Secondary Core materials helpful. Click here for an explanation of the different ways of using these sections. We will give you further links to the Primary Core in later modules. There is a useful glossary of ICT terms on this website, and a glossary of ICT terms relating specifically to music can be found in The Music IT Pack.

BECTa have some useful publications about Music and ICT (see the Bibliography below for details) including the Music and IT Pack and the Music Technology in Action which is summarised on the Virtual Teacher Centre (VTC). There are many further ideas and useful links on the main Music pages of the VTC.

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Activity

 

Task 1

This exercise should be written in the electronic format which you feel is most appropriate for each section.

  1. Audit of personal ICT skills
  • Download and print the pro forma posted on the Conference site. Spend 10 - 15 minutes completing the audit.
  1. Audit and list ICT resources available to support learning and teaching music in your school.
    • Don't forget to include generic resources available elsewhere in school, and also those resources you may use personally for professional or management tasks. You might wish to use the types given above (Summary of ICT resources) to classify resources, further subdividing these into software, hardware and peripherals as appropriate.
    • You can include resources not immediately available in your school but which you hope to obtain in the future, including internet and CD-ROM resources
    • You can create your own own document, or download and print the pro formas posted on the Conference site
  1. Define a clear rationale for using ICT in your own school context. (10 -15 minutes)
    • In this you should give a clear indication of how you see ICT enhancing teaching and learning within the music curriculum. You should include any existing good practice and point to future opportunities which you consider possible. You may find you will return to this rationale and amend certain parts of it when you have completed other aspects of the course and have a deeper understanding of a wider range of ICT resources.
    • Refer to the discussion above for more ideas (Rationale: why ICT?)
     
  2. Familiarise yourself with the Conference site and post a message, eg:
  • one of the documents completed above
  • a question relevant to secondary music teachers
  • a description of a resource you have found useful
  • an introduction to you and your department
 

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Links and bibliography

Useful Internet Links

T@LENT Glossary of ICT terms: Glossary

Music and ICT Glossary: Guide 8: Glossary of terms used

Virtual Teachers Centre reviews of Music websites

Useful Publications

BECTa (1998), Primarily IT, Using IT to support music at KS2, Coventry: BECTa

BECTa (1997), The Music IT Pack, 8 Choosing and Using Guides, Coventry: BECTa

BECTa (1997), Music Technology in Action, Coventry: BECTa

Lewisham E&CS(1999), Ideas for integrating ICT into the Primary and Secondary Classroom, London: Lewisham E&CS

 
 
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