Music education

Digital Portfolios in Music Education

Details: Tuesday, 01 December 2015

What is a digital portfolio? A collection of student work in a digital format – digital artefacts – which demonstrate evidence of learning. Digital portfolios are usually curated by the student themselves and include work in multiple formats including text, hyperlinks, video, images and audio files.

Midnight Music

Mastering the Piano with Lang Lang

Details: Tuesday, 01 December 2015

Pianist Lang Lang has been app-savvy for some time now: for a while he made a splash at his concerts by encoring with smule’s magic piano app running on an ipad.

MusicAlly

India: Make music compulsory in education to reduce violence

Details: Monday, 30 November 2015

“Make music compulsory in education, from school to college level, violence will automatically be reduced”.

Goa News

3 Ways It Takes a Community to Develop a Great Music Program

Details: Monday, 30 November 2015

What if administrators and educators truly valued how the arts leverage engagement and achievement in school?

NAFME

Can Music Education Make Your Child’s Brain Better?

Details: Monday, 16 November 2015

Aside from the aforementioned benefits of music education, music is a near constant part of our lives, from our on-and-off-again exercise routines to our daily commutes to our coworker’s desktop stereo playing the same three songs on repeat.

Medical Daily

Improving Music Education Can Be a High Note for Our Industry

Details: Monday, 16 November 2015

In most industries, a combination of hard work and talent is a fairly reliable route to success. It's not like that in the music business unfortunately.

Huffington Post

Conservatoires should place more focus on teaching skills

Details: Monday, 16 November 2015

All too often performance graduates are leaving college as talented and capable musicians, but facing fierce competition from myriad equally talented and capable performers, and slim chances of landing a full-time orchestral position.

The Strad