Research taster
Students can compose music collaboratively using ICT without the need for formal theoretical or practical skills.     Year 6 pupils in one study were able to create a piece of music similar to the types of music they listened to at home using Dance eJay software.  The software gave the pupils access to sounds like drums and electric guitars that might not otherwise have been available within the primary school classroom.

Your evidence
You might find it helpful to consider how you might use ICT to support your students learning in music.  Perhaps you could identify three opportunities in the next half term where you could use ICT to support your music lessons and record your plans in the table below.

(Adapted from Reflective Activity 9-4a on the Reflective Teaching website at: http://www.rtweb.info/ch09/ra9-4a.html)

Moving forward
Once you have planned how to use ICT to support your music teaching you might like to try these out with your pupils and evaluate how effective they are.  You might like to consider:
•    the effects of ICT on the pupils’ learning;
•    whether there any disadvantages or challenges using ICT in this way; and
•    how might you modify the use of ICT in future lessons.

Find out more
The full project is InterActive Education: teaching and learning in the information age set out to answer a big question lead by Prof. Rosamund Sutherland, Prof. Susan Robertson, and Prof. Peter John. The project website is at: http://www.interactiveeducation.ac.uk/

You might like to visit the BECTA website which offers some suggestions of how to  use ICT to support your  music teaching at: http://schools.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=tl&catcode=as_cu_sec_sub_10&rid=456 

For some examples of how other schools have implemented ICT in music visit: http://schools.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=tl&catcode=as_cu_sec_sub_10