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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

NAfME 2018: STEAM, Maker Culture, Music Education

This post contains resources and references from our NAfME 2018 presentation: STEAM, Maker Culture, and Music Education presented by: Evan Tobias (Assoc. Prof. Music Education, Arizona State University) Ryan Bledsoe (PhD Student, Arizona State University) Nathan Botts (PhD Student, Arizona State University & Museum Educator @ Musical Instrument Museum) Jenny Madruga Chavez (BM Music EdAlumn and Masters in Vocal Performance @ Arizona State University & Current Music Teacher in Phoenix, AZ) Resources Access resources on STEAM and Maker Culture curated by the… Read More »NAfME 2018: STEAM, Maker Culture, Music Education