Beginners of Pedagogy in Basic Education develop interactive video that integrates music in learning

They are Tabita Muñoz, Valentina Vásquez and Josefina Salazar, students of the course "Development and Teaching of Artistic Language", who generated audiovisual pedagogical material for boys and girls in their first year of basic education. The branch is dictated in the first year of the degree.

How to work distance musical learning? This is the challenge faced by the students of the course "Development and Teaching of Artistic Language", taught in the first semester of the career of Pedagogy in Basic Education for the Faculty of Education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Before, the students of the course had to create musical instruments with PVC pipes, something that was not feasible this year due to the distance and the difficulty in obtaining materials due to the quarantines imposed in different regions of the country. Faced with this scenario, the course teachers had to innovate in the way of developing content. It was so that Tabita, Valentina and Josefina, newcomers to the race, put together an animated video that teaches to identify melodies and promotes the role of minors in the musical learning process.

The objective of the material is for boys and girls to recognize the notes Sol and Mi, the students explain. To do this, they decided to create an imaginary world that invites small spectators to participate using their corporeality. "It also occurred to us to make an animated character to make it more attractive," he says. Tabita Munoz (18). This is how Rupertito was born, a green alien who needs help to return to his planet. “We didn't want one of us to appear in the video, but we wanted it to be striking, like a cartoon, and that, in the end, the protagonist would be the boy or girl who interacts with the material”He says.

Something the student agrees with Josephine Salazar (21): “We believe that it is very important to give prominence to boys and girls through didactics. We wanted them to take an important role in the activity and that they would be interested in learning”. In the video, the children are invited to raise and lower their arms according to the note that sounds on the screen. In this way, the Pedagogy students applied the different musical teaching methods learned in the field.

Valentina Vasquez (19) was in charge of editing the video and animation. “We did the drawings and images first, trying to make them very striking, and then we edited them with stop motion. It was a long process, ”she says. In total, the project took about a month and a half to develop. The narration of the video was made by Tabita and Josefina, where they had to let out all their personality through their voices. Something that did not cost much to Josefina, who previously studied theater at another university, but later realized that pedagogy was her thing: “My thing was to teach and I know that I can use the same theater resources in the classroom ”.

For the teacher of the course, Camilo Arredondo, “This generation entered totally willing to learn online, so it was surprising how they took up this activity and used technological implements. It had that meaning from the beginning. It occurred to me to generate this instance where they are not only transiting the content of the music, but also the didactic knowledge”.

Although the students assure that none of them plans to specialize in artistic education, they do see value in these initiatives. "We can replicate this type of didactic strategies in other disciplines. The important thing is to know how to interact as teachers with the students and find ways to give them prominence, either in the classroom or with videos like this one. The idea is to teach how I would have liked to be taught”, says Tabita.

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