Community reviews for iTooch Music

I think this is a great teaching tool. Teaching music history can be tough with younger students as their attention and engagement quickly fades. iTooch gave a new prescriptive on topics and was a fun and different way to supplement the classroom material. While I definitely feel that technology should NOT replace hands-on experience and real life conversations this was a great way to break free from the traditional music classroom and enjoy a little technology and allowed for differentiation.

The lessons are not robust enough to properly teach the material, but they provide an excellent supplement to classroom instruction. Students can review theory and history by taking quizzes and earning points and belts. When a student misses too many questions, the app encourages the student to re-read the lesson and re-take the quiz. When retaking quizzes, the questions are not exactly the same. The quizzes include a variety of questions including multiple choice, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank (spelling-sensitive, but not case-sensitive). I like that the lesson text is always available for reference, even during the quiz. I also like that many of the questions include listening samples, which is essential in a quality music app. Though most of the content is American-Eurocentric, there are several levels on world music. Multiple players can have their own profile on the same device, though there is no central database for teachers to view student progress and students will need to use the same device each time they play. There are a few accessibility features built into the app. Users can adjust text size and the quiz questions can be read aloud, though there is no read-aloud feature for the lesson text. This app is designed for middle school students and while the interface may be a little juvenile for high schoolers, the content is at an appropriate level for beginning theory and music history classes in high school.