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The Use of the Internet Portal YouTube
in Lessons of Music Education
Petra Obršlíková
The phenomenon of contemporary school is the use of modern equipment and
media in all fi elds of education. No school can do without appliances such as a per-
sonal computer or interactive board. Specialized programmes and grants are focused
on the development of the use of media and new technologies in schools with the aim
to support and improve the quality of education and so facilitate
the work of teachers
and pupils and make it more pleasant.
The basic medium used in lessons of music education which is believed to help
the teacher in all possible ways (especially to ease their explanation and to make les-
sons more interesting) is the internet. Pupils use it every day and they will welcome
its use in lessons. Usually, they have very good internet skills and they can fi nd any
song. It is the teacher’s role to familiarise pupils in, adequate way, with other possi-
bilities of listening than they know. When
teaching a certain music style, the teacher
should choose such compositions for listening activity which they suppose pupils
could be interested in. Students then can search for these themselves and thus widen
their knowledge.
Pupils at the second grade of elementary search mostly compositions from the
area of popular music and it is the teacher who should introduce them to the area of
classical music. Moreover, the teacher should do it in
a way which makes classical
music at least a bit acceptable to pupils.
The question is how to attract pupils when we consider the fact that today’s young
people want their rights to be observed but tend to forget their obligations. This fact
is refl ected also in music education and is connected with the refusal to listen to some
compositions.
To persuade pupils that there are other possibilities than these they are familiar
with and to present them in the form of samples so that they will not protest usually
requires a superhuman effort in the educational process.
The pupils’ preferences nowadays are to be burden with the lowest possible
amount of information, the shortest possible record from
the lesson and all these
in the most attractive way. To fulfi l this task and to meet everybody’s needs and
expectations is impossible because each pupil at the second grade is an individual and
has different opinions on what quality music is like. The teachers’ position is even
more diffi cult because they should have a good knowledge of the internet domains
offer and they should verify the reliability of information commonly available on the
internet.
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The use of the internet in lessons of music education depends on the amount of
technological devices
available in the classroom, on a personal computer and audio-
video. Today, pupils prefer listening accompanied by visual images. Therefore, toge-
ther with the computer and loudspeakers we also use a projector which transfers
visual information clearly; for example, when a teacher presents a piano concert to
their pupils, it is better not only to listen to music but also broadcast the digital picture
of the orchestra and the piano interpret (I expect that at a live
concert they would have
the visual image as well).
When teaching about a symphonic orchestra and its conducting, it is good when
pupils can see the organization of individual musicians and the conductor, their
movements and gestures. The high quality of speakers during the listening is taken
for granted. If the broadcast is not of good quality or is disturbed, it infl uences pupil’s
concentration in a bad way.
A frequently
discussed, visited and in lessons of music education used website is
the internet portal YouTube. If teachers start working with this portal, both they and
their pupils are believed to get used to it with time. We are likely to appreciate the
fact that music broadcast together with digital picture is available anytime, also in the
situations of unplanned listening. We have to realize
that nowadays we can hardly
ever do without internet digital pictures and neither can teachers. Especially, if the
portal might be used in lessons of music education in an attractive way.
To clarify the popularity of this portal, I would like to quote from the article Broad-
cast Yourself: Film and YouTube by Miloš Vojtěchovský (2009: 12): ‘
YouTube was
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