Technology is a tool. In music education it can enhance the audio experience and convey information in such a way that it becomes engaging and exciting.
Students walk away from class inspired, talking about my lessons and they even ask if they can be involved in preparing such material for their peers.
Technology is the language of this generation and as an educator I need to be ‘with it.’
There are a range of programs out there from Sibelius to Logic and Reason that can aid educators in reinforcing concepts of rhythm, pitch, harmony, composition and aural perception within the classroom. Such software I have found to be very useful.
While at the University of New South Wales Australia I wrote a tutorial for the virtual studio software Reason. The university liked it so much that they asked to use it as part of their normal curriculum. While it is ‘oldish’ and uses a now passed version of Reason it still helped me and others who have used it to create music in a program that has limitless possibilities.
To download and have a look at my tutorial and UNSW’s citation of my work please click on the link below.
Reason also brought out their own unit of work called Teaching Music With Reason and they have also made it free. Follow this link to download their unit of work.
