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date: 06 December 2019

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The convergence of the Internet and mobile phones with social networks—“networked technologies”—has been the subject of much recent debate. This chapter considers what new media researchers have already discerned regarding networked technologies; most important, that more significant than any given technology is how we use it, the effect(s) its use has on us, and the relationships we form through it and with it. Music education researchers and practitioners have tended to focus on technology as a knowable “thing”—that is, hardware and software with their “practical classroom applications”—and not the greater epistemological issues underlying its use. How will we engage musically in a meaningful way with a generation of students—“digital natives”—who have grown up technologically “tethered?” How will these different “ways of knowing” change music learning and teaching now and in the not-so-distant future?

Keywords: networked technologies, digital natives, “triple revolution”, “informal learning”, Internet evolution

Janice L. Waldron

Janice Waldron is an associate professor of Music Education at the University of Windsor. Her research interests—informal music learning practices, online music communities, social media and music learning, vernacular music, and participatory cultures—are reflected in her forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning (with Stephanie Horsley and Kari Veblen). Published in Music Education Research; the International Journal of Music Education; Action, Criticism, and Theory in Music Education; the Journal of Music, Education, and Technology; and the Philosophy of Music Education Review, Dr. Waldron has also authored several Oxford Handbook chapters in its Music Education series. She serves on the editorial boards of Action, Theory, and Criticism in Music Education; the International Journal of Music Education; the Journal of Music, Education, and Technology; T.O.P.I.C.S; and she is the website editor for the Mayday Group. She was named ‘Outstanding Researcher: Emerging Scholar’ at the University of Windsor in 2012.

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