Beyond Rhythms and Pitches: Get to the ‘Good Stuff’ Faster with Tech Tools

Saturday, January 25, 2025
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Description
Imagine band and orchestra students walking into rehearsal prepared with the basics of rhythms and pitches. This session will focus on the tools and processes to help your students build skills and foundational knowledge. Through guided practice sessions with authentic assessment and feedback, they will succeed and become better musicians faster. We’ll show five software tools from MusicFirst (Sight Reading Factory, MusicFirst Recorder, PracticeFirst, Musition and Auralia) that are simple for you and your students – so that you can rehearse more than the basics sooner. All participants will be eligible for a free 30-day trial to sample these tools.
Speakers
Mike Olander
Learning Objective 1
Teachers will understand and identify ways that technology can be integrated into everyday learning activities and assessment to enhance and extend learning and foster greater student engagement.
Learning Objective 2
Teachers will be able to provide rationale for infusion of technology as valuable evidence of student learning.
Learning Objective 3
Teachers will learn fundamental strategies for selecting and using technology tools to use with students in a way that is authentic to the learning process and appropriate for the learners in their school community.
Session Level
Middle School/Junior High, High School
Session Type
Lecture