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Maker culture and music education: Programming a digital ornament with music and lights with MakeCode

How diverse are the forms of musical engagement that we support in music programs? I think music education, particularly in K-12 contexts could be much more expansive in terms of the types of musical engagement we include or address in music programs. Combining music education and maker culture as STEAM education has great potential. Here’s a post on combining music, computational thinking, and physical computing as a form of arts-driven STEAM education. TL;DR Last year (2018), I created a digital… Read More »Maker culture and music education: Programming a digital ornament with music and lights with MakeCode