This paper discusses our ongoing experiences in developing an interdisciplinary general education course called Sound Thinking that is offered jointly by our Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Music. It focuses on the student outcomes we are trying to achieve and the projects we are using to help students realize those outcomes. It explains why we are moving from a web-based environment using HTML and JavaScript to Scratch and discusses the potential for Scratch's "musical live coding" capability to reinforce those concepts even more strongly.

This article begins with a discussion of the rationales for diversification of musical education environments. It then covers applications of music technology which enable new forms of musical empowerment; online music education environments; a blended/hybrid approach that features some online learning to enhance what is taught in face-to-face settings; online music teacher education; and participatory media and social media musicianship.

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This introduction provides, first, an elaboration on the handbook’s premise, which seeks to trouble notions of authority and expertise by celebrating the diversity of stakeholders and opinions that narrate the landscape of technology and music education. Second, this introduction provides brief summaries of the contributions that make up the four main parts of the handbook. Twenty-two Core Perspective authors consist of ten females and twelve males across six continents that include the countries Australia, Canada, China, Mexico, Singapore, Uganda, United Kingdom, and the United States. Selected authors include school and community music practitioners, industry members, higher education researchers, and music teacher educators, embracing theoretical frames that include philosophy, history, sound studies, ethnomusicology, social and cultural psychology, and critical theory. To further reinforce the perspectival nature of the handbook, another nineteen authors provide Further Perspectives to various subparts in the volume. We encourage you, the reader, to continue the dialogue begun in this handbook through adding your personal perspectives online via our companion website (http://global.oup.com/us/ohtme).

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Drawing on observation and interview data collected from a case study of learning and teaching in a music technology lab, this article focuses on the nature of feedback and compositional intent during a soundtrack composing experience as viewed through the lived experiences of a teacher (Mary), a student composer (Ellen) and Ellen's peers. Tensions embedded in their shared experiences are analyzed for insights that may help other teachers of music composition in schools provide more successful feedback through valuing and responding to the student's musical agency and compositional intent. These insights illustrate the complex interplay among teacher feedback, learner agency and students' compositional intent, with particular attention to implications aimed at helping teachers to facilitate and design composing experiences in more inclusive ways.

Learning how to actively theorise music is a complex process which is challenging to observe and describe for teachers, students and researchers. In this study, we explore the potential of a mixed-methods research design for understanding how theorising is developed and how the different methodological approaches used in the study can improve our understanding of precollege students' experiences of learning to theorise music. The study combines (1) qualitative methods such as observation, analysis of video and audio recordings and interviews, (2) software development as music education research, (3) eye tracking and (4) musical analysis. We suggest that a considerable advantage of a mixed-methods approach is that it can make students' thinking visible and audible. In addition, it can improve precision in identifying novelty and surprise during the learning process. Such moments of new musical conceptualisation are particularly important in a context of abundant access to many musical genres and styles.

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