Interaction technology for better music teaching | Benno Spieker | TEDxTwenteU

Music education can have great impact on the development of children in many ways. However, there are still children who don’t have music lessons in primary school because their teachers do not feel confident in teaching music. Despite that teacher educators do their best, teacher training has to do better. In his talk, Benno makes a plea for using interaction technology as a solution to the challenges that teacher training in music pedagogy currently faces. Benno Spieker is a Ph.D. candidate at the Human Media Interaction group at the University of Twente, and at the IPEM research group at Ghent University. His research focuses on interaction technology to support pre-service teachers in learning to guide collaborative music making. In his work, he operates at the intersection of music, education, technology, research, and innovation. He builds on experience as a music teacher in secondary education, as a teacher educator in music pedagogy at a teacher academy, as a board member of the national network of music teachers at teacher academies (NMP), and as an entrepreneur in music (education). Since 2015, Benno is a music teacher educator in technology-enriched music education at the bachelor Music in Education at ArtEZ Conservatory Enschede, part of ArtEZ University of the Arts. He is also professionally involved in the foundation More Music in the Classroom, which promotes music education in Dutch primary schools on a national scale. Furthermore, he is a board member of the national music teacher association (VLS) in the Netherlands and national coordinator for the Netherlands on behalf of the European Association of music in Schools (EAS) for which he is also board member. Finally, Benno is owner of muzketier.nl (muzketier.nl) and co-founder of the startup eduFade (edufade.com). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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