TME Week 3B Notes
Class notes pre-lecture
Provocation: given that music has its own form of notation (in fact several), as well as audio and video channels, why do we ever need a big PowerPoint with lots of bullet points?
The brain can only process complementary forms of information --> we can’t multitask, so why would you put text about one thing and images/audio/video about something else?
Data/diagrams/pictures/music score examples can complement your spoken words, so that one is not complete without the other
Recap on the tech arguments
Northern Beaches Christian School says: this is the world our children live in
90% of teenagers have a social media account
Keep in mind it’s more snapchat and instagram than anything else
We don’t just want to know about it, but we need to teach students critical thinking skills, because they are getting so much of it all the time --> research skills are really important
The filter bubble: Facebook feeds you things that you agree with, and so you are constantly reading opinions of people that don’t challenge you
The monkeysphere: numbers that different primates live in on average; the bigger the brain, the bigger the group --> our brains have a natural capacity for being a part of a group, but once the group gets to big that starts to break down
That’s (supposedly) why it’s much easier for us to feel compassionate about people in our own circle
The Pacific Northwest tree octopus – learn to do your own research!
Now onto today’s lecture: 1 to 1 learning
1 to 1: one device to one child
Could be laptop, iPad, Android tablets, Windows Lenovo tablets and thinkpads; even smartphones are getting powerful enough!
Chrome book: whole laptop exists on chrome and just a little more
OLPC (one laptop per child): Western company aimed to provide extremely cheap robust laptops for the third world
The direction we’re moving in: having an accepted device for everyone to use OR bring your own device à Another scholar says we should say instead Bring a Browser (BAB)
BAB for Music Education
We can’t learn every piece of software, but we should learn the DAW wire frame:
Tracks on the left with audio/midi
Midi is software data that tells computers o play music
Time is linear across the page, time is measures in min/sec or bar/beat
We can normally double click on tracks and edit them in a more detailed way
There are normally effects as well as EQ and reverb
Soundtrap is a browser-based DAW --> It looks quite similar to GarageBand
Soundation is one of the most popular browser-based DAWs
Audiotool is another one
Music first service – allows schools to purchase access to a whole suite of software
Software Content Analysis
At the ISME conference in Glasgow, Humberstone presented on what music software is available and works on browsers and on native-based apps
Should ask him when that will become publicly available