Power Up Pedagogy with Technology: iPads in Music

Abstract

Technology is having an enormous impact on music instruction today, and we must train our students accordingly. To be an educator in today’s teaching profession, we must of course have taken numerous courses in methodology, pedagogy, and education case studies. But most educators make the mistake of teaching the way they themselves have been taught. This will not work with today’s students, who are savvy with technology and therefore learn differently from the way we were taught. This paper gives a snapshot of one application of the new technology to music teaching in the classroom: how iPads can be used to enhance the results for students in Theory, Aural Skills, and Composition.