I want to change the way that music education is taught in the schools. The reason I wanted to teach music is that my experience with music teachers at my junior high and high school was well, a very BAD experience. They tried to teach “how” to read music (something I already knew) or were
I have attended many technology conferences outside the music technology field. What strikes me as striking is the lack of connection to the arts. These conferences have NO music teachers attending, where are they? Yes, many non-musicians “try” to bring in the arts, but they are not musicians or visual artists. They are someone who
Carol Broos is working for the Golden Apple Foundation using her arts and technology background as the Technology Coordinator. Her passion is to bring infuse music and technology together in education. She recently retired after thirty-three years of teaching music grades kindergarten through eighth grade in Illinois.
She is on the SET Connections Board, Chair of the Golden Apple Foundation Academy Board, and Poster Co-chair for the Illinois Computing Educators.
2009 Apple Distinguished Educator
2009 Illinois Music Teacher of the Year
2008 Golden Apple Fellow
2006 Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher
She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Music Educators Journal for NAfME. She hosts a podcast show on EdReach.us called aRTs Roundtable that posts on Wednesdays, where arts educators discuss current issues involving the arts and technology.
