Technology In Music Education Research Articles

Music education technology for older elementary school aged children

Music education is essential to forming a well-rounded student. With this important concept in mind, our goal for this project was to produce an interactive tool for students and give them an oppor...

Girls, Boys and Technology in Music Education

Information technology is having a profound impact upon the music curriculum, and there is general agreement that boys and girls should have equal opportunities to benefit from it. Although music has traditionally been a subject in which girls predominate, technology is clearly stereotyped as a male preserve. The present paper reports some findings from the Leverhulme Trust-funded ‘Gender and educational computing in the humanities’ project at the University of Leicester, which is using survey and interview techniques with a large sample of pupils and teachers in the Midlands to investigate these questions. The preliminary results suggest that boys are more confident in their use of music technology; that they are showing an increasing interest in music as a result of it; and that teachers have a crucial role to play in ensuring that girls are not disadvantaged in the use of music technology.

Technology in Music Education

Technology in Music Education

The Best of Both Worlds: An Eclectic Approach to the Use of Computer Technology in Music Education

The Best of Both Worlds: An Eclectic Approach to the Use of Computer Technology in Music Education

Touching sound—Connections on a creative spiral

Touching Sound is the title of a project concerned with the learning process, music education and new technology. It is also the name of a suite of computer programs. Music in education can contribute to all areas of experience, including the mathematical, physical, technological, spiritual, but mostly to the aesthetic and creative, and human and social areas. With the child at the centre of the curriculum, music in education is concerned with enabling all children to participate in musical activities, and to realise their own musical thoughts and feelings through sound. Any technology must therefore be completely accessible to all children, whatever age or ability. There are many skills of the mind which are developed in this process—imagining, formulating, discriminating, selecting, rejecting, evaluating, ordering, structuring. The essence of good computer programs is one of simplicity, of ease of access, of enabling learning in more direct ways. Touching Sound turns the computer into a new musical instrument, providing new ways of creating and shaping sound, of playing sound, thus overcoming, but not devaluing the barriers of traditional techniques.

Duet on music education and educational technology.

Duet on music education and educational technology.