Teaching and Learning Technology in Music

1. Teaching and Learning Technology in Music Presented by: Kinly Bertram and Rebecca Oliver

2. Types of Music Technology • MIDI • Apple • 2 most famous music writing software • Sibelius • Finale

3. Issues and problems • Redefining Music Literacy • Computers give the music educators the opportunity to think beyond the music score (piece of written music) • Downloading of Music Illegally • Intersection of Popular Music, Technology, and Music Instruction • “Bridging the Gap: Popular Music and Music Education”

4. Strategies for Instruction • Integrating technology into • Support for music composition and production • Allows users to record, edit, and playback digital audio and MIDI data • Offers a range of mixing and sound design options • “Apple’s GarageBand” http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband • “BubbleMachine” http://www.lipscomb.umn.edu/bubblemachine

5. Strategies for Instruction • Support for music performance • Helps teachers with theory lessons, quizzes, etc. to enhance students’ performance • “Sibelius” http://www.sibelius.com • “Finale and Print Music software” http://www.fibalemusic.com • “MidiNotate” http://www.notation.com • Support for self-paced learning and practice • Offers individual, personal help with needed skills, ear training, or music theory • “Practice Musica” http://www.ars-nova.com

6. Strategies for Instruction • Support for teaching music history • Internet sites to gain easy access on background information on composers and musical periods/compositions • “Classic Motown timeline” http://classic.motown.com/timeline • Support for interdisciplinary strategies • Helps build on natural relationships between music and other topics such as physics or mathematics • Helps promote musical literacy with other concepts • “Math & Music” http://www.fun-books.com/books/toc/Math_and_Music_Features.htm