Lesson Design in Technology-Based Music Instruction

This chapter provides detailed discussions of models that are useful in designing technology-based music lessons. Included are models about the balance of musical and technological content, and the ways in which teachers and students interact with technology in music classrooms. The chapter uses the musical roles identified by Reimer: composing, performing, improvising, listening, music theory, musicology, music teaching. Each of these roles is explained, and based on the structure provided by Reimer, the chapter provides an extensive set of lesson plans that demonstrate principles of technology-based music instruction. Analyses of each lesson plan helps to contextualize them and to explain their strengths and weaknesses.