Katie Argyle is a music technology in education trainer, consultant and podcaster who is passionate about helping music teachers through her business Midnight Music. She runs hands-on workshops, presents regularly at conferences in Australia and internationally and offers online training and support to music teachers all over the world. Katie has been a Keynote speaker at the Australian Society for Music Education National Conference, the Music Education New Zealand National Conference and the ACT Music Educators Network Conference.
In 2016, Katie launched the Midnight Music Membership Community which has become a go-to hub for hundreds of music teachers who are seeking tech-based professional development by offering step-by-step training, world-class online courses, creative lesson ideas and personalised support. She also regularly presents regular live training webinars and these were attended by more than 20,000 teachers in 2020 alone.
Katie has authored a keyboard and technology program for middle school students titled Studio Sessions (published by MusicEDU) and she publishes a popular annual guide called the Ultimate Guide To Free Music Tech Resources on the Midnight Music blog. Katie is also the host of the Music Tech Teacher podcast which was launched in early 2017 and has more than 150 episodes.
Day 4: Thursday
| Time | Title |
|---|---|
| Session 2: 11.00 | Super-useful tech tools that enable differentiation and foster an inclusive learning environment in the music classroom |
| From the recently-released to the “why didn’t I know about this before?”, there are some incredibly useful tech tools available that can help empower student learning in music education. Technology can provide opportunities to differentiate learning quickly and effectively through apps and browser extensions that are readily available and mostly free to use.
Attendees will discover apps that allow students to snap a photo of their sheet music in order to play it back or transpose it quickly. We’ll look at rehearsal and transcription tools that will change the tempo of videos and audio recordings without changing the pitch, plus set up short practice loops, transpose songs and bookmark important sections of a piece to enable quick navigation. Learn how to create instructional playalong videos that show synchronised notation on screen. Discover an on-screen keyboard that displays notes that are pressed and identifies chords in real-time – just like the keyboard tutorials you see on Youtube. Explore the in-sync lyrics in apps like Spotify and Apple Music to speed up the learning of songs. Learn how to make your own screen tutorials or verbal/visual feedback videos that allow students to pause or rewind the teacher and more! |
|