The Grandview SmartMusic Project
Good Day!
This blog has been collecting dust for months. It could be because I have been scrambling with the job. Or maybe it is because I haven't had much blog-worthy to say.
I am back because I have a new project that I would like to keep track of... A major SmartMusic rollout.
A little background.
The Westonka School District has some budget problems. In the 15 years I have been there, this is actually a fairly normal situation. This year, however is different because the powers that be have decided that the band sectional time is not going to be available to my 6th and 7th graders. With only 40 minutes per rehearsal every-other day. What are we to do for holding kids accountable and helping them to grow as musicans?
Well until we get the time back, we are going to use SmartMusic to keep track of our band students. All students with internet access at home are getting SmartMusic. For the 5 percent that don't have access for one reason or another, we will have stations availble at school in practice rooms.
There are a bunch of sound educational reasons why kids should be using SmartMusic. I just wish that triage for my time problems wasn't one of them.
It should be interesting to see on guy's struggle with the digital divide, educational software and attempting to work smarter not harder.
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