Course+Description+and+Objectives

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
In this semester-long course, music education students will apply music technology **//essentials//** to working with students with special needs to various music instruction settings. Most music technology offers benefits to all music students, but with specific, collateral benefits for various special needs. Other technology, due to its deliberate design, focuses on the needs of special learners. We'll discuss valid applications for both categories of technology.

OBJECTIVES:

 * Review traits of special needs prevalent in K-12 education, discussing how music (and other) technology might be suited to aid special learners and their music teachers.
 * Investigate music (and other) technology, according to various categories, learning their basic features as well as other features that might be applied in teaching special learners in music courses.
 * Develop specific lesson plan adaptations for using technology with special learners in music courses.

INSTRUCTOR:
====The course is taught by Dr. Scott Watson. Dr. Watson has taught instrumental and general/elective music for the Parkland School District for 25 years. In addition to his work for Cairn University, he served as full-time Asst. Professor of Theory/Technology for Temple University during the 2001-02 academic year and is currently also an adjunct instructor for Villanova and Central Connecticut State Universities. His book, //Using Technology to Unlock Musical Creativity//, was published recently by Oxford University Press. In addition, Watson is a regularly commissioned and published composer/arranger and an exclusive composer for Alfred Publication's //Challenger Band Series//. To learn more about Dr. Scott Watson, and hear sound clips of his music, click here.====