| Abstract [eng] |
Teaching and learning in today's schools are constantly changing. Information technology is increasingly used in the classroom, and general education curricula are being updated to emphasise the development of digital competences. The music class is no exception, as is the development of students' musical literacy, which can also benefit from the use of information technology. However, research has shown that teachers have difficulties in finding different music programmes and their applications, as there is no database with the necessary tools. There is also a lack of structured materials according to pupils' age concentrations and musical activities. Teachers spend a lot of time searching for or even developing IT-based teaching tools themselves. All this leads to an insufficient quality of music literacy education for pupils. The final project aims to improve the quality of pupils' musical literacy education through the use of ICT-based teaching toolkits and methodological materials for the development of pupils' musical literacy. To this end, the first part of the project analyses the concept of literacy, which is defined by many scholars as a very broad one, and recommends that music literacy education should be carried out in a comprehensive way, by developing the sense of rhythm, teaching music writing, developing the pupils' voices, developing their ability to play musical instruments, introducing them to musical cultures and contexts, fostering their creativity and improvisation, and encouraging them to participate in sociocultural activities. The second part of the project describes the research carried out to analyse the needs of teachers and pupils and the possibilities of using ICT teaching tools to develop musical literacy. The third part of the project look at the use of information technologies to develop students' musical literacy and a crucial part of it - musical writing. In order to improve the quality of music literacy education, a methodology for the use of ICT for the development of students' musical literacy and the requirements for a virtual learning environment in which to implement the methodology were developed and described in Part 4 of the project. A set of teaching tools has also been developed and described in the fitth part of the project, which has been implemented and tested in the virtual environment Moodle of Vilnius Maironis Progymnasium. The toolkit consists of five learning courses, available to all as guests. Four of them are designed to provide teaching material according to grade concentrations, while the fifth one describes the use of ICT for the development of students' musical literacy. The information gathered during the project was presented at the international scientific conference ALTA'23 and at the national scientific and practical conference Labyrinths of Music and Science. |
