Material desing in music education with Arduino

The use of technology is a significant part of the daily life. The application of these practices in daily life in music education can simplify for students to learn more actively by keeping their interests alive in both fields. The role of the teacher in music education is certainly very important. Today, as the technology advances, the teacher should be able to take advantage of all kinds of innovations in music education classes as well as the classical education methods. In this context, it is widely accepted that the innovations should be applied and improvements in the technology must be reflected in the material. The Arduino Platform emerged in Italy in 2005 to provide material-backed learning. It is a microcontroller platform with open source software and hardware. It was introduced so that the teachers and students are able to create low-cost scientific tools and all musicians and artists can design new musical instruments and start programming. Teachers may design interesting, entertaining materials related to their field to provide more permanent learning for the students by using the Arduino Platform through the coding language (C / C++). In this study, the aim is to design visual and audio materials that facilitate learning in music education by using Arduino Platform. Secondary school music course program was examined and various materials were designed by the researcher considering the principles of material preparation in line with the mentioned program. The designed materials were presented to the music teachers for their opinions and these opinions were evaluated and a number of results arised. The study is considered to be a contribution to the music education of the students.