'Right tool, right time'

'Right tool, right time'

January 7, 2016

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Thanks to a new app, music teachers and their students are able to collaborate effectively between lessons.

Notemaker allows users to make real-time comments on video and audio recordings.

Notemaker allows users to make real-time comments on video and audio recordings. It was created through the Music Education in a Digital Age (MEDA) Project, directed by Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트카지노 게임 컬렉션s Rena Upitis (Education), in partnership with Concordia 카지노게임사이트 and the Royal Conservatory.

Annotation apps are not new, Dr. Upitis explains, but what makes Notemaker different is that it is the only one that allows a dialogue among multiple commenters directly on a recorded work, either video or audio.

카지노 게임 컬렉션The technical piece that makes this app unique is that it can be used with multiple users, multiple times. So that makes it extraordinarily powerful,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Dr. Upitis says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션It카지노 게임 컬렉션s dynamic, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s multi-user, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s the kind of teaching and learning that we are doing these days.카지노 게임 컬렉션

Music lessons often take place once or twice a week and the communication often ends when the lesson does. However, with Notemaker, the communication continues.

카지노 게임 컬렉션So when you are sitting at a piano lesson and your teacher tells you something, your teacher interrupts you partway through a piece and says try this differently. You get it and you pay attention but you can카지노 게임 컬렉션t re-create that moment when you are practising,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Dr. Upitis says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Whereas if you카지노 게임 컬렉션ve done a video and the teacher writes a comment in 카지노 게임 컬렉션This is what I meant at the lesson, right here you need to raise your elbow,카지노 게임 컬렉션 then you can play it again and again and see where your elbow isn카지노 게임 컬렉션t raised and then say 카지노 게임 컬렉션Okay I get it카지노 게임 컬렉션 and apply it to the practice. In a lesson the moment has passed but with Notemaker the moment can be brought back again and back again.카지노 게임 컬렉션

The app is part of the larger MEDA Project, which has resulted in four digital tools 카지노 게임 컬렉션 iSCORE, DREAM, Notemaker and Cadenza 카지노 게임 컬렉션that comprise The Music Tool Suite. The multi-year project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The other key for Notemaker is the recognition that learning has moved beyond the classroom setting.

카지노 게임 컬렉션It is very exciting and it meets two very important needs,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Upitis. 카지노 게임 컬렉션One is to recognize the contemporary pull of mobile devices for young musicians and the other is to provide scaffolding for teachers to be able to work with students mid-week between lessons. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s really intuitive and because it meets a pedagogical need I think whatever learning they may have to do to figure out the app, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s worth it and not terribly difficult, especially if they are using phones already, which many of them are.

카지노 게임 컬렉션This is the right tool at the right time for this context and we카지노 게임 컬렉션re loving the response we카지노 게임 컬렉션re getting.카지노 게임 컬렉션

Dr. Upitis adds that with its flexibility and multi-user sharing, Notemaker can be applied far beyond music education. If there카지노 게임 컬렉션s a video and feedback being sought, whether it카지노 게임 컬렉션s sports training, theatre, dance or creating a preparing a presentation for work, Notemaker is an ideal platform.

While it is an exciting, new tool, at the heart of the app is something that has always been the key to learning.

카지노 게임 컬렉션The other thing Notemaker does is the most important of all, which is it motivates people. People are motivated to practice when they can see their progress and when they can feel they are getting feedback that is directed and helpful and they can link that feedback to their work,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Dr. Upitis says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Ultimately it is motivation that matters in every kind of learning. If kids are intrinsically motivated to do whatever the task is at hand that카지노 게임 컬렉션s what카지노 게임 컬렉션s going to propel them forward. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s not the app. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s the learning. And when they fall in love with the learning and fall in love with the activity or discipline that카지노 게임 컬렉션s what you want taking over. For us an app like this provides that motivational bridge, that pedagogical bridge, the collaborative bridge, but ultimately, in our case, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s about learning to play and love music. Not about learning to love and play an app.카지노 게임 컬렉션

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