Amy M. Burns

Elementary Music Technology and Integration

Amy M. Burns has taught PreK-grade 4 general music for over 25 years at Far Hills Country Day School (FH) (https://www.fhcds.org/). She also teaches grade 5 instrumental class, directs the FH Modern Band, is the Performing Arts Department Manager, and teaches privately in the after-school conservatory, having served as director for over 20 years. She has authored four books and numerous articles on integrating technology into the elementary music classroom. She has presented many sessions on the topic, including four keynote addresses in TX, IN, St. Maarten, and AU. She is the recipient of the 2005 Technology in Music Education (TI:ME) Teacher of the Year, the 2016 New Jersey Music Educators Association (NJMEA) Master Music Teacher, the 2016 Governor’s Leader in Arts Education, the 2017 NJ Nonpublic School Teacher of the Year, and the 2026 NJMEA Distinguished Service Awards. Her most recent publication, Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches (2020), is available from Oxford University Press (OUP) and Amazon. Burns is also the Community Coordinator for Midnight Music (MMC) at https://midnightmusic.com/, the General Music Chair for NJMEA Board of Directors, and the Elementary Music Consultant for MusicFirst (https://www.musicfirst.com/), a company built by music educators for music educators, dedicated to helping music teachers and their students make the most of technology in the classroom.

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Want To Learn About Vibe Coding?

August 18, 2026  /  Amy M. Burns

Music Midnight's August webinar is this evening: Code Your Own Interactive Music Games and Activities Using AI.

Katie Argyle and I been having fun experimenting with a few of the options including Canva code, Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT and each one has its own pros and cons. And believe us when we tell you that you can easily do this too! Imagine creating an interactive web app that’s designed and customized specifically for YOUR students! 

Here are a few of the web apps that we have been making recently. You’ll learn how to create apps just like these in the webinar!

These include an interactive xylophone and boomwhacker instrument, a music class scoreboard, a tempo ladder, an interactive recorder, a music hangman game that involves a ladybug instead of a hangman, and more! This about how this can be used in a center or for retrieval practice!

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