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This blog post has been adapted as a chapter section that has been accepted for publication by Oxford University Press in Technology for Unleashing Creativity by Steve Giddings 2022. Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math, or STEAM, is an approach to education that prioritizes cross-curricular learning with the five mentioned subject areas through project-based and inquiry-based lenses. It is often seen as STEM, not taking into consideration the arts as an important

Learn to play the guitar – It’s one of those instruments that is incredibly versatile and can be carried around the room, unlike the piano which creates an actual physical barrier between you and learners. It is used in many different genres, too. Learn how to play by ear and jam – Let’s face it, a lot of modern music is not written down or uses a notational system that is designed to be used with a recording (Tablature for example). This means that learning by ear is incredi

2020, of course, will be the year we all talk about as the year everything changed. This list of the 10 most popular blog posts on Steve’s Music Room from 2020 will go down as one of the most diverse and most interesting to date. Reading through some of these titles will certainly tell a story of what happened this year in the world of music education. For instance, the first blog post I made on this particular blog was “How to Get Your Students Hooked on Bucket Drumming.” It