Digital MakerSpace
Chrome Music Lab
I explored the digital makerspace Chrome Music Lab today. What this is is an app or website you can use to create music by clicking on different buttons with note choices put up and down in a column. The columns extend quite a bit so you can make your own song or beat. You can play multiple notes at once or just one and when you finish making your song you can play it by clicking a button. There is also an option to changed the tempo or pace at which the software plays the song. I had a lot of fun with it and found it to connect with the content areas through making patterns with it. Almost every subject area can relate to patterns in one way or another. Math has patterns represented in shapes or numbers as early on as kinder. Reading has patterns, especially in poetry. Science has patterns such as life cycles. Everything has patterns. As I will show in the video, this game gives us the chance to demonstrate patterns to our students.
Chrome Music Lab Website: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker
There are a couple of TEKS in particular from the music standards this makerspace will definitely support. The students can create their own short melodic patterns using this MakerSpace. It is simple and interactive for the students so they can build for themselves a deeper understanding. They can also hear the difference in pitches and change the speed at which it is played. The can hear the loud and soft, faster and slower, and higher and lower. This game is perfect to use with students if there is not enough instruments or even for our other content areas as said before.
1.4(B) create short, melodic patterns using known pitches;
1.6(C) distinguish same/different between beat/rhythm, higher/lower, louder/softer, faster/slower, and simple patterns in musical performances; and
Computational Standards
3c: Plan collaboratively with other educators to create learning activities that cross disciplines to strengthen student understanding of CT and CS concepts and transfer application of knowledge in new contexts.
Hey Allison! I loved that were were able to correlate music with other subjects such as math poetry, science, etc. You are right there are patterns in everything and we use them daily. You were able to incorporate and fulfill tek(s) 1.6(c) distinguish same/different beat/rhythm,higher/lower,louder/softer,faster/slower, and simple patterns in musical performances.
ReplyDeleteHello Allison, I think this program is amazing. You can create your own beats and see the creative side of children! You are able to choose your keys, change the tempo, and it gives students the option to explore music and try something they could be interested in!
ReplyDeleteHi Allison! I think it is amazing how you incorporated TEKS as well as the standards. This activity is really planned in a way that students would benefit in many ways since the lesson is supported by both TEKS and Standards. I think the program you choose is really unique and has a ton of potential learning. Your standard connects to this activity because we are able to use technology in ways that cross other content areas. Overall, great exploration post and activity planning.
ReplyDeleteHey Allison, I love this idea! Music can be a great way to introduce young students to technology. I feel like "5b: Empower students to select personally meaningful computational projects." would work well as music can be very meaningful to some people.
ReplyDeleteHey Allison I love this idea!
ReplyDeleteI feel another standard you could connect this to is as follows.
5b: Empower students to select personally meaningful computational projects.
5c:Use a variety of instructional approaches to help students frame problems in ways that can be represented as computational steps or algorithms to be performed by a computer.