Technology for the Music Classroom

The good thing about being a Music Education student is that when someone asks you about what technology tools and apps you will use in your classroom, chances are you've already used them.

In my Ear Training I class we used an app fittingly called Ear Trainer, which helps music students

identify chords, chord progressions, scales, and even a melody. Because listening is so essential to learning music, I can use this app in my elementary classrooms, where I can have students identify what is major and what is minor based on the sounds they hear. I can also use Ear Trainer in more advanced lessons, like interval identification,  for my high school students.

I also found an education application called Treble Clef Kids, which is very useful in helping children learn to read music, specifically treble clef. Treble Clef Kids is an interactive educational way for students to learn the basics of music theory, which for a first year teacher, is very useful. Not only will this app help kids learn to read music, it's interactive feature lets kids explore and quiz themselves.

Lastly, I found an app called Music Tones, which focuses on finding musical notes in all clefs. Using training mode and games, students can hear and see a tone on a staff in any clef, as well as test themselves to recognize as many tones as possible.

All these apps help students of all ages become fluent in reading and understanding music, and I think it will really help my future students.