Reflections on my Inquiry Question

For the assignment on creating an inquiry wiki about a question relating to tool or problem based issue, I decided to research "How technology can be used to teach early childhood music concepts and skills". This was an interesting topic, and one that is close to my hear. From an early age music has been a big part of my life. At 10 years old I had begun playing the Oboe and Piano in music classes, private lessons, etc. I enjoyed my music education classes, but cannot pin point any use of technology in teaching and reinforcing skills. As a future educator, I look forward to integrating music into early childhood curriculum. Through the knowledge obtained in this course, I have found that technology can be a great too in teaching. That said, I thought it would be beneficial for my future and for the future of my students to research this topic.

Since this topic was personal to me as an individual, I exerted a large amount of effort on completing this task. I enjoyed the research portion of the assignment, and spent a lot of time finding interesting and appropriate sources that addressed my topic. Also, I tried very hard to synthesize the information from the sources to create a list of best practices when using technology to teach music education. I tried to provide the sources that were the most interesting and the most useful in getting an introduction to my topic in the "additional resources" section.

This assignment has great value and provided me with essential knowledge to become an effective early childhood educator. With the information gained from this research assignment, I now feel more prepared in providing an awesome music education program for my students. I now see how music technology can be used to increase learning. I have also been presented with specific activities, lessons, instruments, tools, and technologies that will help me integrate it into the daily classroom environment.