The paper examines the contribution of learning with the help of digital media to the quality of students’ knowledge when getting acquainted with the basics of musical literacy in the teaching of Music Education in lower primary school grades (school year 2013/14, a sample of 78 fourth grade students from Serbia E = 39; C = 39). The research results have shown that the students from the experimental group (M = 4.05; SD =.972) achieved better results in musical literacy in the final test by learning with the help of digital media, for this kind of work compared to the students from the control group (M = 3.15, SD = 1.309), who learned in the traditional way: t (78) = -3.438; average difference = -0.897; 95% CI: from -1.418 to -0.377; η = 0.134.

M@IVES research addresses the trajectory of Brazilian graduate students and their attitude to the development of educational technology through a pretestposttest quasi-experimental process with experimental and control groups. It has included the design methodology of research since the establishment of the problem posed by the institutions of graduate work in guidance to course work. It analyzes data gathered in the field of research and in light of Brazilian reality. It enhances the development of a new teaching methodology, supported by educational technology - M@ IVES - for research specialization courses Education Area offered in the city of São Luís. It demonstrates, by building Site M@IVES and study developed, the limits and educational opportunities offered by the new methodology presented.

Traditional education in the United States has been largely influenced by the Industrial Revolution. Educational technology helped prepare students for the industry. The modern information technology revolution has created a need for a different type of education, one that helps the student acquire the skills to process and use information to solve problems. One approach to education that does this is constructivism, an approach to education that helps students learn the structure of knowledge. Exemplary use of educational technology can be used to accomplish this goal. Exemplary lessons stimulate higher-order thinking to solve problems. Examples are provided that demonstrate this.

The need to use other grading methods that will help to certify and/or qualify teachers’ grades in extensive groups of students led us to implement peer assessment. Our research was carried out over the last two years, and the students assessed one of the practices among themselves, using one of the tools from a virtual teaching platform. Their grades were subsequently analysed to see if they showed similar results to the teachers’ grades, by means of a correlation analysis. The high correlation found suggests that teachers could take the students’ grading into account if necessary.