MUSIC EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY:

software and digital tools for teaching and learning music

Abstract

Enforced self-isolation policies, which have been largely adopted to fight the spread of the new
coronavirus, have led to schools and universities taking on remote education across the country. In remote music teaching and learning contexts, where haptic feedbacks are an integral part of the pedagogical process, it is essential to reflect upon the role played by education technologies as facilitating devices for learning music. This paper is, therefore, a literature review aiming at 1) presenting education technologies as support and strategy for educators and 2) reflecting on their importance for education and society. Thus, we present an overview of existing active methodologies such as “Inverted Classroom”, “Gamification” and digital tools such as Google Meet currently in use. Within this literature review, we pay close attention to music-related software as a strategy to smooth music teaching and learning. We also identify music-related software main characteristics and some of its applications in the educational context. We conclude that these pieces of software have huge advantages for remote music teaching and learning and will be still important for music education in the foreseeable future.