Lu, Pei-Hsuan
Graduate Student, Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education, National Taipei University of the Arts
Email：phphphlu@gmail.com
Abstract
With the advancement of science and technology, coupled with the reformation of the 12-Year Basic Education Program, teachers need to respond to the trend by implementing new educational thinking and teaching methods. Moreover, issues regarding computer-based music teaching are also gradually receiving attention.
The purpose of this study is to analyze computer-based music teaching applications (APPs) by using the “Taipei City Teaching Application Mall” website as an example to discuss the learning methods and tools for integrating technology into teaching music. By implementing literature review and content analysis research methods, this article analyzes the music teaching APPs using a new content analysis classification developed by the researcher, where the function, characteristics and usage status of the music learning APPs are assessed and evaluated.
Results show that the music teaching APPs listed on the “Taipei City Teaching Application Mall” is less likely to assist users in achieving “analyzing, differentiating, organizing, attributing” and “evaluating, inspecting and criticizing”-related educational goals. As of the completion of this article, most of the APPs listed focus on “memorizing, recognition, recall” and “understanding, interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, integrating, reasoning, comparing, explaining”-related goals. Most APPs merely focus on teaching content but lack complete teaching processes, such as teaching evaluation. Therefore, if music teaching APPs include teaching assessment functions, they will render the music teaching processes more convenient and complete and may provide more assistance to music teachers. For example, these APPs may provide formative assessments of music teaching to track learning progress.
Keywords :Computer-based Music Teaching, E-Learning, Music Teaching APPs