Mr C's Music Room

  Navigating New Media   Case Study #1: Google Classroom Overview Google Classroom is a one-stop shop for teachers to set up learning activities, grade assignments, and send announcements to their students. The platform allows students to access learning materials or assignments their teacher assigns at the touch of a button. Students receive instant notifications of teacher announcements, upcoming assignments, and when their work has been graded. ]Google Classroom also allows students to enter collaborative workspaces with their peers via the remaining tools within the Google Suite. User Engagement Teachers can use Google Classroom to distribute learning materials, create assignments, and grade student work. Kumar et al (2020) state how the platform's versatility allows teachers to assign readings, YouTube videos, or even games using the Classwork Page. Students can utilize Google Classroom to access their assigned materials, submit classwork, and stay on top of due dates. By...

For my final project, I will research the Personal Digital Inquiry framework to argue that elementary music classrooms provide unique affordances to the framework that a traditional classroom does not offer. I will focus on the process of music composition and how students can leverage various compositional tools to show their expertise and engage with their communities. I have chosen to focus my research on PDI because I was particularly moved by the findings of Jon Wargo, who wrote an inspirational story in the article Sounding the Garden: Voicing a Problem: Mobilizing Critical Literacy through Personal Digital Inquiry with Young Children. Wargo tells the story of a young boy who uses sonorous artwork to mobilize his community around the climate change crisis. This inspirational example of the PDI Framework drew my attention to the various affordances of sound and music that students can leverage within an elementary music class to mobilize their communities, as this student managed ...