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Imagine public school students are expected to speak English well but not write, analyze, or comprehend the language! Students and teachers were assessed only on pronunciation; not grammar, syntax, writing style, or comprehension. Seems pretty weird, right!? Why teach students how to speak English but not to write or comprehend it? What’s the main point? Unfortunately, a similar scenario plays out in public school music courses across the United States. Students are expected to perform but not necessarily read, compose, or analyze music. Music literacy refers to the ability to read and write musical notation and to read notation at sight without the aid of an instrument. Additionally it may refer to a person's knowledge of and appreciation for a wide range of musical examples and styles. Some teachers’ casual attitudes toward teaching music literacy in the classroom, by focusing only on performance-based instruction, may be hampering our future composers, sound engineers, music historians, and arrangers. Why should we care? Rather than pointing out the many ways that teaching music helps students perform better in math, or other fields, it is important we begin to understand the importance of music for its own sake. Why? There is no substitute for music-making as it relates to the positive growth and development of the human mind, body, and spirit. Music is non-exclusive! The mission of public school music education is to teach the mastery of musical skills so students can make, read, and write quality music and experience the joy of an ever-evolving sense of aesthetic expression. The benefits of reading, writing, and making music are immeasurable. Experiencing music, whether as a listener, composer, or performer, is a part of the daily human experience and should be addressed as part of a holistic education. So where do we start?
. 1. Logo (thesis topic: flipping/inverting choral classroom in order to teach students a more holistic music curriculum based on the National Music Standards. 2. Branching Google Form Click here. 3. REVIEW OF GOOGLE FORM ADD-ONS A. Flubaroo allows me to collect large amounts of student data via a quiz-like google form, take the quiz myself, and then have students' answers tallied (graded) based on how their answer exactly correlates with mine. It is most effective for multiple choice question assessments. It can not possibly grade short answer or paragraph responses. B. Powertools allowed me to count how many shaded-in cells in a chosen range on google sheets appear in my selected range. This allowed me to tally points for paragraph responses on students' final exams last week as I had color coded their responses to reflect the quality of their response/grade. C. Mail Merge allows me to bulk email my students and parents with individualized information by only creating one draft with general variables that pull from columns and rows in a Google Sheet. This has saved me HOURS of time over the past school year. "Basically, transliteracy is concerned with what it means to be literate in the 21st century. It analyzes the relationship between people and technology, most specifically social networking, but is fluid enough to not be tied to any particular technology. It focuses more on the social uses of technology, whatever that technology may be" (https://librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com/beginners-guide-to-transliteracy/).
1) Prezi introduction to Transliteracy for classroom share 6/14/17: https://prezi.com/view/UV3X1LTIyQoQPIyGvmYK/ 2) Google forms: My experience: I'm grateful to have a class set of chromebooks that allows me to assess my students formatively (weekly quiz) and cumulatively (final exam). My process: create a google doc quiz. Share the link to my website wcw.schoolloop.com/colbyhawkins, publish it to my app, 'Mr. Hawkins,' and assign the assessment via Google Classroom. Once students complete the assessment I use the add-on, "Flubaroo" to have the data graded against my answer key. I've used google forms to organize parent volunteers, maintain financial records, collaborate with colleagues, for students to collaborate with peers/complete activities, and to embed links in my emails to my site's administration and staff members to allow them to comment, edit, or view requested work materials. Do google forms come naturally to users? For most working-class professionals, there may be a small learning curve. The ability to customize google forms to complete custom/tailored objectives for work, as an example, will be learned within a couple of hours. Finding add-ons, and customizing google forms with more powerful tools may be a never ending learning and searching process. One add-on I found helped me send individualized-bulk emails out to hundreds of student recipients at once using google sheets! 3) Logos I enjoy elegant simplicity. A logo that is 'too busy,' or cluttered, or doesn't relate in ANY way to the brand, the product, or the idea of a company aren't as beneficial as logos that have simple, compatible color choices, a correct amount of visual complexity, and is unique. This course has six requirements, which are as follows:
Demonstrate knowledge of the elements of effective web and presentation design through designing and maintaining a web page, Wiki, or Blog that can be used for socially networking with parents and/or students and through the creation of presentations. See the ‘Mr. Hawkins’ app - available here for iOS and Android. Share a Chromebook app that can be used in the classroom. The presentation should discuss issues of integration into the classroom or use as a teacher productivity tool. See my classroom’s EdPuzzle.com account: https://goo.gl/chE19B Select, read, and evaluate an educational technology related book on a topic of the student’s choice. Identify and develop effective classroom activities using a Chromebook App. See musition.cloud and auralia.cloud Design a screencast that examines the historical and philosophical foundations of educational technology, addresses key strategies for integrating technology into various content areas, or identifies and discusses adaptive assistive hardware and software for students and teachers. Develop an effective classroom activity that integrates telecommunications tools and/or the Internet or makes use of a database and/or spreadsheet software tools. Student evaluate peer solo auditions via anonymous recordings with provided google form and teacher’s rubric. Please see my teacher website and select the ‘click here’ link in the top right corner of the screen under the heading, ‘Student Solo Evaluation Form.’ To see the spreadsheets of over a thousand rows of collected raw student data and how I organized, averaged, and ordered it to produce clear summary results please click here. All of the above is condensed into a Google Slide presentation as seen here. Click here to access Colby Hawkins' Chapter 1 draft of his master's thesis as well as his GSOE IRB Proposal.
5 minute film festival: flipped classroom videos for the any secondary level music classroom12/14/2016 I've created two year's worth of instructional videos (click here for videos) to be used as supplemental learning aids for students and parents while outside of class in order to prepare for in-class discussions and group projects that directly correspond to the comprehensive music literacy curriculum below:
Year 1 'Music Theory:' Click here Year 2 'Music Theory:' Click here A few articles for my flipped classroom thesis are here.
Music illiteracy: a prevalent problem among secondary public school choral students
What does a traditional choral classroom look like?
What my classroom currently looks like:
Potential Ideas for improvement and a thesis topic:
Digital citizenship Google Slides presentation - click here How Can Digital Citizenship Be Taught At Your Grade Level: After preparing your own presentation and listening to the presentations of others, reflect on what essential elements of Digital Citizenship should be addressed at your grade level. At 7-12th grade I believe the following Digital Citizenship elements should be taught:
In addition, share your thoughts and findings on how these elements could be taught. Propose possible curriculum that could be used and at what grade level and in what classes it should be taught. Your elements and proposed curriculum can done in one or two separate Posts on your Weebly website. Be sure to reference the resources that you use. I would like to use CommonSenseMedia.Org. Here is a digital citizenship curriculum outline/scope and sequence for K-12 grades that includes all the units taught from Common Sense Media. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZLG0ScSwvozN_EAhw_KH7zCgIHjckteJ3SndIgqvrqE/edit?usp=sharing In addition to teaching this curriculum I would supplement the lessons linked in this scope and sequence chart with the interactive games and activities found here: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/students I love that this is a progressive, detailed, and well-planned curriculum. I also believe the interactive games and activities are extremely helpful for all grade levels. |
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