Subject+-+Music+(Project+4)

=** Subject: Music (Shelly Calabrese) **=

** Technology: **

 * ===**Turning Point Responders, SmartBoard**===

Description:
===Students will hear or see a sound or term and identify the correct answer using their individual responder. They will answer a number of questions covering instruments, notes, etc. When a student answers their response is anonymous to the class. After all students have answered a graph is created of the class’s response. The students receive immediate feedback and they move on to the next question. In order to see how a student does individually, the teacher could align students with a numbered responder. After the activity is done a report can be printed that explains the results of each individual child and their answers.===

Supporting Research:
===**Student response systems help improve the performance of students and their alertness while keeping them engaged (Day, 2010). There a variety of forms to phrase the questions including multiple choice, true/false, survey style, and more. After students respond they receive immediate feedback after each question. Immediate feedback leads to effective learning (Day, 2010). The most important thing that can help the learning process is to have students actively take part which is what happens when using student response systems (Day, 2010).**===

Tried & True or New & Innovative:
===**I consider SmartBoards to be tried and true for most but when you combine the use of SmartBoards and their interactive features with a student response system then it becomes a new and innovative idea. SmartBoards have multimedia objects like notes that when tapped play music and die that roll when tapped. When a response system can include these objects that move and make sound then students are engaged. New and innovative ideas need to be engaging and interactive for the students.**===