Creative Music Making at Your Fingertips A Mobile Technology Guide for Music Educators

Students are drawn to mobile technologies such as iPads and smartphones because of the sheer endless possibilities of the digital worlds they hold. But how can their potential for stimulating the imagination be effectively used in the music classroom to support students' development of musical thinking? Countering voices that see digital technologies as a threat to traditional forms of music making and music education, this collection explores the many ways in which hand-held devices can be used to promote student learning and provides teachers with guidance on making them a vital presence in their own classrooms.

Creative Music Making at Your Fingertips features 11 chapters by music education scholars and practitioners that provide tried-and-true strategies for using mobile devices in a variety of contexts, from general music education to ensembles and from K-12 to college classrooms. Drawing on their own experiences with bringing mobile devices and different music apps into the classroom, contributors show how these technologies can be turned into tools for teaching performance, improvisation, and composition. Their practical advice on how pedagogy and mobile technologies can be aligned to increase students' creative engagement with music and help them realize their musical potential makes this book an invaluable resource for music educators who want to be at the forefront of pedagogical transformations made possible by 21st-century technologies.

Gena R. Greher is Professor of Music Education and Chair of Music at University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is the co-author of Computational Thinking in Sound: Teaching the Art and Science of Music and Technology (OUP, 2014).

Suzanne L. Burton is Professor of Music Education and Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Delaware. She is the co-author of Ready, Set, Improvise! A Nuts and Bolts Approach to Music Improvisation (OUP, 2018) and the lead editor of and contributor to the Engaging Musical Practice Sourcebook series.

Acknowledgments
Preface

Section I: Laying the Groundwork for Promise and Possibilities
Chapter 1: Mobile Technology: The Promise and Possibilities for Creative Music Making
Gena R. Greher and Suzanne L. Burton
Chapter 2: Digital Music Play in Early Childhood
Suzanne L. Burton
Chapter 3: Living at the Intersection of Tablets, Music, and Disability
Alice Hammel and Jesse Rathgeber
Chapter 4: Choosing Engaging Tools for The Music Classroom
James Thomas Frankel
Chapter 5: The App Scavenger Hunt: Helping Future Music Educators Embrace Change
Gena R. Greher and Savannah H. Marshall
Chapter 6: With "App" Attention: Creative Music Making
Michele Kaschub and Janice Smith

Section II: Transforming Teaching and Learning through Mobile Technology
Chapter 7: The iPad as a Musical Instrument!
David A. Williams
Chapter 8: Taking the Digital Plunge: A Teacher's Journey into Going Mobile
Joseph Janack
Chapter 9: Musical Creativity, Mobile Technology, and Middle School
Rue Lee-Holmes
Chapter 10: iAssess: Using the iPad for Student Self-Assessment in a K-5 Music
Composition Curriculum
Elissa Johnson-Green
Chapter 11: Advocating for Mobile Technology: Getting to "Yes"
Dominic Pisano

Postscript: Our Collective Thoughts on Creative Music Making Post Covid-19