Group items tagged

This project has created a platform that uses high definition panoramic video and surround sound to provide individual musicians with the very realistic experience of playing in an orchestra. The expected result is an exciting new method of training musicians and allowing them to expand their repertoire.

"This tool finds web-based, age appropriate curriculum content via a search engine. The information is presented as key facts, an interactive concept map, photos, videos and websites for further study. It provides a space in which students can record key concepts and save notes, and it also keeps track of websites visited. A scroll bar allows the content to be modified to the reader's ability level. It also generates quiz questions." T. Hayes

Abstract: This paper describes a multimodality approach that helps primary-school students improve their learning performance during music instruction. Multimedia instruction is an effective way to help learners create meaningful knowledge and to make referential connections between mental representations. This paper proposes a multimodal, dual-channel, multimedia learning (DML) system that provides efficient control over several multimedia objects such as Word files, PowerPoint files, web pages, images, films, and real-time videos. The multimodal DML system was applied in an experiment in which 32 fourth-grade students were assigned to the experimental group, where they received twelve 40-minute music lessons using multimodal presentation over a period of eight weeks. The control group consisted of 32 fourth-grade students who received the same twelve 40-minute lessons, but with musical notations. The results reveal that students in the experimental group showed a higher level of learning achievement and motivation than those in the conventional group. The conclusion was that multimodal presentations are helpful to scaffold learning.

Subject Area Archive: Performing Arts

Bobby McFerrin and the science of music

"The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, by Benjamin Britten Join Violet as she embarks on an instrument safari, guided by her venerable uncle Ollie, collecting all the instruments of the orchestra to the accompaniment of Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra."

With the help of a music studio, laboratory, time-traveling phone box, and a cast of hilarious characters, Quaver introduces young people to a marvelous world of music like they've never seen it before!

Facts and stats on where we are headed with technology in education.