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"Empowering children to participate in the creative process."

-Robert McBride, Performance Today, National Public Radio

Technology has revolutionized the way music is produced, and can revolutionize the way it is learned.

Music technology companies are developing increasingly powerful and easy-to-use tools. From ergonomic control surfaces and virtual instruments, to digital audio workstations and internet collaboration, bringing these extraordinary tools into the classroom:

• Boosts music learning and creation;
  
  
• Boosts reading, writing, and arithmetic;
  
  
• Taps into student fluency with and attraction to technology;
  
  
• Teaches computer skills;
  
  
• Prepares students for higher-level learning and the workforce;
  
  
• Makes the learning process more appealing;
  
  
• Embraces the instruments and culture of our day;
  
  
• Increases student attachment to and performance in school;
  
  
• Helps students achieve remarkable things.

RIME is striving to bring these tools into the classroom through our Concert Curriculum, Disc Curriculum, Modern Methodology, Turnkey Technology Package, and Virtual Composer Residencies. We will also be spotlighting music technology of interest to educators in our Newsletter and Web News. We are committed to technology serving, but never monopolizing, the curriculum.   Learn more...