‘Get students to wire up the desk, experience feedback and physically move the fader’
Technology progresses faster than any school curriculum or budget ever will. So how can teachers deliver a curriculum using recording technology that won’t be outdated in a matter of months? Is it truly possible to future-proof your delivery of recording and music technology lessons?
By the time those Year 7s you taught about recording are moving into the real world, almost a decade will have passed and a lot will have changed.
To put that into context the iPod was released in the year 2000, causing a seismic shift in how people consumed music. By 2007, the iPhone was on the market and music consumption looked to be shifting to our phones. Then, in 2011, GarageBand was added to the iPhone. In the space of 10 years listening to music had gone digital and the idea of having to have a studio to make music was being challenged by anyone with a smart phone.
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