Digital Communications THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ON MUSIC EDUCATION TODAY

PREFACE The telegraph--the first form of data communications--was invented just before 1840 and was used for short text messages. However, it was difficult to use and required special operators. Companies never adopted it for wide spread internal operators. It wasn’t until the 1960’s that the public network started taking advantage of the superiority of digital service. Timeline

TECHNOLOGY TIMELINES The history of technology and the histories of music technology and educational technology are closely aligned.

DEFINE DIGITAL PROCESSING Today’s communications technology deals with transporting digital information or quantized and/or compressed speech, audio, image and video, reliably from a source to a destination; depending on the transmission media, the bandwidth available, the tolerance of error and delay of the information to be transmitted, and the complexity allowed in the system.

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION Parents and teachers recognize the usefulness of cable in the classroom programs. PCs and the Internet have significant household penetration. Of the parents surveyed, 56% live in households with a PC, while 36% have Internet access at home. Children are growing up with PCs. Of the children in the surveyed households, 93% use a PC, and 86% of them have PC access at school. 57% of the children access the Internet at home, school, or elsewhere.

Digital Communications in the Music Industry A world of virtual reality and ease of access to information is changing everything we do in terms of its promise for education, for music, the learning of music, and the making of music. The Web offers a content rich environment for use in, and out of the music classroom.

Digital Communications THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ON MUSIC EDUCATION TODAY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Digital Technology and its Impact on Technology Global Music Resource Digital Work Cyber Trends Telecommunication by Dodds Basic Digital Communications Concepts Importance of Technology Education and Multimedia Content for Students Evaluating Educational Technology A Guide to Telecommunications Services