Technology & Pedagogy

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        I chose to work with this lesson plan because when you're working with a content area such as music, cross curriculum lesson plans are key to forming a solid education for the students. The students will use their prior knowledge from other subject areas to better understand the content in this lesson. After the lesson the students will have a broader understanding of the subject matter for both classes. Although the lesson plan seemed pretty solid, it is not seamless. I think that the goal of showing how visual art and music can inspire the others development was not satisfied by the strategy and procedure used. The lesson plan only has the students analyzing the artwork. The students never analyze the music nor do they cross analyze/compare visual art with music. After analyzing the artwork, they listen to a piece of music and are told to paint a reflection of what they heard. It would have been better to analyze the visual art and then come up with a list of descriptive words that reflect the artwork. Then listen to the music and analyze it. Then come up with a list of descriptive words that reflect the music. (This could have been done in groups) Then cross compare the lists and see their similarities and differences. After elaborating on your findings as to how and why these two art forms reflect one another, play another piece for the class and have the students paint an abstract reflection. The technologies used in this lesson plan were necessary for achieving the proposed goals. Although the lesson plan calls for CD's as opposed to mp3's or youtube, and doesn't particularly state how to show the visual images, I think using a computer with a projector or smartboard is the fastest and most efficient way to get this material to the students.





Lesson plan URL: (http://lessonplanspage.com/artmusicabstractartasavisualmetaphorformusick4-htm/)