First Steps in Music Tech: Solutions for Elementary General Music

Friday, January 24, 2025
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Description
Sing, dance, play, create! Every elementary music learning experience should incorporate a wide variety of activities. Technology can provide support to help you keep students engaged, learning and creating, even when children are not-hands on with technology. MusicFirst offers a broad array of teacher-created, classroom-tested and student approved solutions that help make music class the best time of the day. MusicFirst Elementary provides a new, multimedia, sequential curriculum aligned to the National Core Arts standards. All our options include materials that keep students singing, moving and learning with minimal need for student-controlled devices. Software including YuStudio and Flat provide kid-friendly, scaffolded music learning and creative environments for times when students are using computers, Chromebooks, and tablets.
Speakers
Mike Olander
Learning Objective 1
Teachers will understand and identify ways that technology can assist with everyday music learning activities and assessment.
Learning Objective 2
Teachers will be able to discern if/which software applications apply to their students’ needs and how to implement them.
Learning Objective 3
Teachers will learn how to access software tools and learning materials easily on devices for their own use, and how to safeguard students when they are accessing technology tools and Materials.
Session Level
Elementary
Session Type
Lecture