Creative Music Making At Your Fingertips

"Hand-held mobile devices such as iPads, tablets, or smartphones hold potential for creative music making experiences within P-12 and higher education contexts. Yet, navigating this technology and associated apps while embracing pedagogical change can be a daunting task. Creative Music Making at Your Fingertips explores the enormous potential of one rather small technological device to transform the music making experiences of students. In this book the authors provide evidence, ideas, and examples of the role that mobile technology, such as an iPad, tablet, or other hand-held device plays in the development of musical thinking and musical engagement of our students--in- or outside of school. The promise of mobile devices for music education lies in their possibilities. In this book and on the companion website, the authors share strategies that will spark your imagination to explore digital musicianship and the use of mobile devices for your students' musical engagement"--