Artificial Intelligence in Music Pedagogy: Curriculum Implications from a Thementag

On 2 December 2024 I gave three workshops at HfMT Köln’s Thementag on AI and music education. The handouts covered data protection, AI tools for students, and AI in teaching. This post is the argument behind them — focused on the curriculum question that none of the tools answer on their own: what should change, and what should not?

7 December 2024 · 14 min · Sebastian Spicker

After the Connection Is Stable, the Hard Part Begins

A third post in the networked music performance series. Technical latency is solved. Institutional infrastructure has a name. What students actually learn — and what conservatoire curricula consistently get wrong about teaching it — turns out to be a different problem entirely.

22 November 2024 · 10 min · Sebastian Spicker

Fremde Welten: Teaching Exoplanet Detection in the Secondary School Classroom

A unit for lower secondary physics classes (grades 8–10) on detecting exoplanets with analogy experiments. Published in Unterricht Physik in 2023, it starts where students’ misconceptions are — with the (wrong) assumption that you can just look at exoplanets through a telescope — and works forward from there.

14 June 2023 · 7 min · Sebastian Spicker