Therese Laux
From iPods to MIDI: Transform Learning through Music Technology

North High Magnet School in Omaha, Nebraska, Vikings

READ: Technology STrategies for Music Education, Thomas E. Ralph, Floyd Richmond, David Mash, David Williams

Focus on 21st century learning
Where do you see:

• engaged students
• scial nd emotional connections
• sensitivity to cultural differences

• Have you noticed?
• students working collaboratively and creatively
• self-direction
• adaptability and accountbility
• What is it about music?
• engaged students- they like being in school and have positive experiences
• emotional and social connections
• collaborative and creative
• When business leaders ask what is needed today, they often say:
• people who think with creative sides of their brain
• people that have played in a band bc it enhances symbiotic capabilities
• http://ti-me.org
• the technology insitute for music educators
• non-profit organization devoted to helping music teachers learn how to integrate the tools of technology into the music curriculum
• 7 Areas
• electronic musical instruments
• MalletKAT
• MIDI wind controller
• keytar, Justin Timberlake, Herbie Hancock's recent CD
• electric violin from Yamaha
• Roland V Session electronic drumset
  
• MIDI sequencing
• music notation software
• Finale or Sevalius
  
• kids have to "own" music, it's a tremendous creative outlet
• teach kids to play happy birthday, let them figure it out
• in their music media tech, they have a piano recital every year for EVERYONE- this is true differentiated instruction
  
• computer-assisted instruction
• multimieda and digitized media
• internet and telecommunications
• information processing, computer systems, & lab management
• What are they so engaged in???
• Garageband!!! kept kids in school and out of trouble
• beginners and pros are able to do it
• tracks, loops, instruments, oh my!
• they find a way to communicate their ideas!!! They can express themselves
• podcasts: fellows night out, fellas night out
• What can we learn from the world of business? Do they have answers?
• at first this sounds insulting, but they might have some answers!
• Winning the Answers, by Jack & Suzy Welch
• Daniel Pink book
• seeing difference_ pay attenetion to differences that matter
• understanding difference: gain knowledge about those differences matter
• value difference: experiment with changes in how you operate as a result
• martin davidson, Darden School of Business
• What's the next big thing?
• www.sltib.com, Earth Harp, Bill Close
• Japanese Tenori-ON, blending the beauty of shape and sound, 16x16 led panel
  
• REactable, collaborative electronic
  
• therese.laux@ops.org
• web.mac.com/omahanorth
• andy crozier ipod ade
• apple learning interchange
• music and the mac, join this group at the apple learning interchange, form a ning group