Gena R. Greher is a Professor of Music Education at UMass Lowell. Her research focuses on creativity and listening skill development in children and examining the influence of integrating multimedia technology in urban music classrooms and music teacher education through School-University partnerships. Jesse M. Heines is a Professor of Computer Science at UMass Lowell. His primary teaching responsibilities include object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces. His research focuses on computer science education, particularly interdisciplinary approaches that blend computer science with music and other fields to enhance instructional effectiveness in both.

For those interested in interdisciplinary thinking in general education settings in college, this book provides a wonderful accounting of how to do this with music, music technology and computing. The writing here celebrates notions of creative thinking, collaboration, project-centered learning, and constructionist philosophy and is a must read for those who want to explore the context of technological applications by today's college students.

• Acknowledgements ; Preface ; Chapter 1: Computational Thinking in Music Courses: How to Get Artsy Types to Start Thinking like Geeks and Vice Versa ; Chapter 2: Imagination and Creativity: The School Based Paradox ; Chapter 3: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning: Two Heads Might Actually Be Better Than One ; Chapter 4: Notation and Representation: Getting Them to Crack the Code ; Chapter 4 Coda ; Chapter 5: Getting Them Started: I Didn't Know You Can Do That With a Computer ; Chapter 6: Platforms & Tools: Anything You Can Do I Can Do Cheaper ; Chapter 7: Logistics: Bit by Bit, Putting It Together ; Chapter 7 Coda ; Chapter 8: Assessment: Making the Grade ; Chapter 8 Coda ; Chapter 9: The Performamatics Model of Sharing and Networking: We're All Connected

Gena R. Greher is a Professor of Music Education at UMass Lowell. Her research focuses on creativity and listening skill development in children and examining the influence of integrating multimedia technology in urban music classrooms and music teacher education through School-University partnerships. Jesse M. Heines is a Professor of Computer Science at UMass Lowell. His primary teaching responsibilities include object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces. His research focuses on computer science education, particularly interdisciplinary approaches that blend computer science with music and other fields to enhance instructional effectiveness in both.

For those interested in interdisciplinary thinking in general education settings in college, this book provides a wonderful accounting of how to do this with music, music technology and computing. The writing here celebrates notions of creative thinking, collaboration, project-centered learning, and constructionist philosophy and is a must read for those who want to explore the context of technological applications by today's college students.

• Acknowledgements ; Preface ; Chapter 1: Computational Thinking in Music Courses: How to Get Artsy Types to Start Thinking like Geeks and Vice Versa ; Chapter 2: Imagination and Creativity: The School Based Paradox ; Chapter 3: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning: Two Heads Might Actually Be Better Than One ; Chapter 4: Notation and Representation: Getting Them to Crack the Code ; Chapter 4 Coda ; Chapter 5: Getting Them Started: I Didn't Know You Can Do That With a Computer ; Chapter 6: Platforms & Tools: Anything You Can Do I Can Do Cheaper ; Chapter 7: Logistics: Bit by Bit, Putting It Together ; Chapter 7 Coda ; Chapter 8: Assessment: Making the Grade ; Chapter 8 Coda ; Chapter 9: The Performamatics Model of Sharing and Networking: We're All Connected