ABSTRACT

To keep pace with the use of technology in education to prepare for the 21st-century knowledge-based society, this study defined technology competencies in music education and examined applications with focus on the following three purposes. First, this paper discussed the technology competencies through an examination of national and international literature. Second, this paper defined technology competencies in music education and examined applications of these competencies. Last, this paper discussed methods for applying technology competencies in music education. Thus, this study intended to discover appropriate educational uses of technology, beyond the use of technology as a method in music education. As a result, this study defined technology competencies as critical thinking and problem-solving abilities fir planning and organizing technologies within individual learners` context and found that learning should be expanded through the ise of technology. National curriculum of the Korean Department of music discuss how to use technologies, but there was no approach in terms of essential content. Accordingly, specific teaching-learning activities and performance standards should be presented to nurture technology competencies.

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