Empowering Ensembles with Technology is a new e-book written by Theresa Hoover, a middle school band teacher from North Virginia, US with an extensive list of credits to her name including her popular blog Off The Beaten Path Music.
The book begins from the starting point outlined in Hoover's earlier book, Pass the Baton: Empowering All Music Students (co-written with Kathryn Finch), that pupils attain better when ‘empowered’. While this is not a new theory (it echoes the findings from Lucy Green's 2001 book, How Popular Musicians Learn) it is summed up concisely in stating that an empowered student:
This new e-book offers a wide range of tech-based solutions to continue this journey. While clearly written with the American band room model in mind, the vast majority of options discussed would also apply to a music classroom in the United Kingdom.
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