tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040190382489476755.post2411388608522187783..comments2023-10-18T05:28:09.915-07:00Comments on Tambourines and Technology: Flipping Out? Is Music the Original Flipped Classroom?Chris Seperskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05460004431269018872noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040190382489476755.post-50151215959070152452013-08-05T12:16:35.074-07:002013-08-05T12:16:35.074-07:00Hi Chris,
You've raised a number of good poin...Hi Chris,<br /><br />You've raised a number of good points in your blog. I'm a huge fan of flipping the music classroom and will give a presentation on flipping the choral music classroom at NAfME, October 29, 2013 in Nashville. It is important to remember that there is more to the flipped classroom than just watching videos. Interactive web music games, apps and software such as SmartMusic are incredibly powerful and can compact or expand the educational sequence for students. For the student who needs to see & hear the demonstration again and again, a video can be an excellent means of strengthening their skill/understanding. <br /><br />Using the example of your recorder student, their parent is probably not going to be able to provide the needed support for the very complex scenario that you describe (which is so important to acknowledge-it is not so simple to learn to the play the recorder & read music!) It takes many repetitions to get it right & wouldn't that be more fun if it involved playing a game such as Joytunes? http://www.joytunes.com/game.php<br />This can progress to seeing the music from Recorder Express in the SmartMusic library where the student can receive immediate feedback about their progress, hear a recording of their work & click on notes to get reminders of fingerings. <br /><br />I've taught elementary general music and I can swear that I could not have given this kind of attention to the hundreds of students that were in my classes. The engagement and differentiation that the flipped experience offer students is at the heart of the experience.<br /><br />In my work visiting teachers in their classrooms, I will say that sometimes music rehearsals are more lecture than the active experience you might assume is happening. Teachers are no longer the only "experts," but sometimes they don't realize it. Teachers' desire to help students do their best (or sometimes just as much to make the performance reflect well on the teacher)can result in top-down instruction that is not engaging the students effectively. Yes there may be "doing" and "performing" in the rehearsal, but how often is it the same 4 measures again & again? How often is the rehearsal based on individual assessments so that the focus is in line with what students truly know and are able to do rather than assumptions that can be deceiving? How often do students know why they are repeating & how to change their participation so that things will move on? That is where the flipped classroom comes in.... <br /><br /><br /><br />Mrs. Klontzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09258871735011436360noreply@blogger.com