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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.

Although they are grouped with the art games, Learning Games for Kids definitely has some worthwhile elementary music games. Many link out to other sites, but they are all student friendly and have content that is school appropriate. Music Match 'em, for instance, has students match the sound of an instrument with a picture of what they think made that sound. Boom Thang is a fun and easy to use composer game, while Music Memory is a tone matching game based on the doh ray me scale. All in all, there is a good mix of education and fun, but that is exactly what we have come to expect from LearningGamesforKids.com.

Chapter 6.5 from McPherson, G., & Welch, G. (Eds.). (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Music Education, Volume 2. Oxford University Press, USA.

"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

"Karajan Beginner is the free version of Karajan, an easy to use music and ear training application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It provides lessons for learning to recognize intervals, chords, scales, pitch and tempo (bpm) with detailed statistics. Karajan is a great tool for music theory students, whether they are in junior high, high school, or college. It is also very useful for every hobb..."

A few new graphic models for finding apps for specific learning.

Subject Area Archive: Performing Arts

Interactive games about music.

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