Application of smart technologies in music education for children with disabilities

Abstract

The article reveals the experience of introducing new tools related to the Smart-education technology segment into the educational process of the disciplines “Listening to Music” and “Musical Literature”, which are included in the curricula of Russian supplementary education institutions - children’s music schools and art schools: computer (multimedia) presentation, video-clavier, electronic textbooks with audio and video sections, materials of sites related to musical art. This toolkit helps promotes stimulation and activation of cognitive and creative activity, self-realization of students with special educational needs, development of their independence, ability to full artistic perception, which allows achieving the main goal of the lessons in the disciplines “Listening to Music” and “Musical Literature” - the formation of interest in musical art and creativity. It will allow teachers working in the system of additional education to effectively organize the monitoring of students’ knowledge, to build individual educational trajectories, to implement personally oriented and activity-oriented methodological approaches in teaching students with special educational needs. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.