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Inter/trans/cross/new media(ting): Navigating an emerging landscape of digital media for music education

Tobias, E. S. (2015). Inter/trans/cross/new media(ting): Navigating an emerging landscape of digital media for music education. In C. Randles (Ed.), Music education: Navigating the future (pp. 91-121). New York, NY: Routledge. In the chapter Inter/trans/cross/new media(ting): Navigating an emerging landscape of digital media for music education I discuss three frameworks for making sense of digital media and how musical engagement can be digitally mediated in relation to music teaching and learning. The chapter starts off with a description of convergence… Read More »Inter/trans/cross/new media(ting): Navigating an emerging landscape of digital media for music education

Is it the technology? Challenging technological determinism in music education.

Ruthmann, S. A., Tobias, E. S., Randles, C., & Thibeault, M. (2015). Is it the technology? Challenging technological determinism in music education. In C. Randles (Ed.), Music education: Navigating the future (pp. 122-138). New York, NY: Routledge. In this co-authored chapter Alex Ruthmann, Clint Randles, Matthew Thibeault, and I provide multiple perspectives on the notion of technological determinism in relation to music education. Simply put, technological determinism is a perspective in which one argues that technology determines or causes what… Read More »Is it the technology? Challenging technological determinism in music education.

Promising practices in 21st-century music teacher education and 21st-century musicianship through digital media and participatory culture

Tobias, E. S. (2014). 21st century musicianship through digital media and participatory culture. In M. Kaschub and J. Smith (Eds.), Promising practices in 21st century music teacher education. Oxford: Oxford University Press (pp. 205-226) Congratulations to Michele Kaschub and Jan Smith for another excellent edited book Promising practices in 21st century music teacher education. I feel privileged to be among a set of wonderful people and great thinkers in music education, discussing potential transformation in music teacher education and schools of… Read More »Promising practices in 21st-century music teacher education and 21st-century musicianship through digital media and participatory culture

From STEM to STEAM!

In a particularly savvy move the National Association for Music Education is organizing a major effort to broaden the narrow and exclusionary (science, technology, engineering, and Math (STEM) discourse to the inclusive and more holistic STEAM (A = arts) discourse through the get STEAMed initiative. We have been through this before with the Sputnik era and Back to Basics movements among other initiatives that focused on science, technology, engineering, and math while excluding other aspects of education and ways of… Read More »From STEM to STEAM!

Getting inspired by the Creativity Circulation, and Copyright: Sonic and Visual Media in the Digital Age conference

Conference calls for papers and presentation lineups can often be inspiring and catalyze discussion or action in music education. The Creativity, Circulation and Copyright: Sonic and Visual Media in the Digital Age taking place at Cambridge University looks to be like one of those conferences! The issues under discussion are close to my research and teaching, particularly in the Digital and Participatory Culture in Music Education course I facilitate at ASU so I am definitely looking forward to when these… Read More »Getting inspired by the Creativity Circulation, and Copyright: Sonic and Visual Media in the Digital Age conference