Special Focus Group
Digital Technologies
in Music Education

Aims
- To share understandings about, and practice, in the use of music technology to support musical learning, both in schools and in music teacher education.
- To identify obstacles that prevent or delay the development of ‘music and technology’ as a tool for learning in schools, and to suggest ideas as to how these obstacles can be eliminated or bypassed.
- To support young student teachers/ researchers in developing their work with and/or research on ICT in music education.
Foci
1) Sharing of current practice that we feel works well in our own cultural context, both in school music and in teacher education.
2) Sharing of research into ICT and music learning and teaching, both in school music and in teacher education.
3) Generating new ideas for further research in this field, including ideas for gaining funding.
4) Potential future joint research projects related to classroom music and technology / music teacher education and technology.
DigiTiME Coordinator: Philipp Ahner (DE)
If you want to join DigiTiME or make contact with the coordinator, please use the contact form of the EAS website (specify “DigiTiME” in your request): https://eas-music.org/contact/
(Please let us know if your e-mail address may be shared with other participants of the DigiTiME group)