Creative Classrooms: Using DAWs and Popular Music to Inspire Student Songwriting
Date
June 9-August 1, 2025
Online
Course Code
8055B
Credits
3
Tuition
$1146
Course Description
This 8-week online course is designed specifically for K-12 music educators interested in leveraging popular music and technology to foster meaningful musical experiences. You’ll explore hands-on strategies for active listening, songwriting, and digital music production using DAWs like Soundtrap and various cloud-based tools. Additionally, the course explores methods for creative assessment and practical approaches for integrating AI-powered songwriting tools, providing engaging pathways for students of all grade levels to compose, perform, and creatively connect with their self-expression through music-making.
Instructor
Stefani Langol is a full-time professor in the Music Education department at Berklee, where she teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate music education programs, and is the technology coordinator for the department. Along with her teaching duties in Music Education, Stefani has also taught courses in the Pro Music, Liberal Arts, and Electronic Production and Design departments, as well as Berklee Online.
Stefani is also a clinician, author, and music education technology consultant. For over thirty years she has designed and delivered in-person and online music education technology training to k-12 and higher education music educators, and has been a featured presenter at numerous state, national, and international music educator conferences. Since 2015, she has authored several online graduate-level courses for in-service music educators that are offered yearly through the VanderCook College of Music MECA program and the University of the Arts Summer Music Institute. Currently, Stefani is an ambassador for MusicFirst, a technology company focused on providing tools and resources for educators teaching in the cloud, and also sits on the MusicFirst Teacher Advisory Panel.