AI Music for Learning & Teaching
What you'll learn
- Identify key features of AI music generation tools used for education
- Explain how music enhances memory and learner engagement
- Describe how bilingual lyrics aid in language learning
- Use AI tools to turn educational content into songs
- Transform flashcards and short answers into musical formats
- Analyze plot points or historical moments for deeper meaning using AI music
- Evaluate the effectiveness of music-based learning tools
- Compose original AI-assisted educational songs
- Create a multimedia music project based on the Iliad with visuals and animation
Requirements
- Basic computer literacy and ability to navigate online tools
- Familiarity with using web-based apps or software platforms
- An interest in education, music, storytelling, or language learning
- No prior experience with AI or music composition required
- Access to simple video editing software for the final project (basic tools like Canva, CapCut, or iMovie are fine)
Description
This innovative course is designed to empower educators, parents, and learners with the creative use of AI-generated music as a powerful tool for teaching, memorization, storytelling, and personal development.
We’ll explore how AI music tools can transform traditional educational materials into engaging, emotionally resonant audio experiences. Whether you're outlining historical events, breaking down story arcs, reviewing vocabulary, or comparing languages, this course will guide you through practical ways to turn content into memorable music using AI.
Key Learning Areas:
1. Educational Timelines in Song Form:
You will learn how to use AI music tools to generate songs that follow a chronological order—perfect for summarizing historical periods or charting narrative developments. Each song will function like a musical timeline, helping students retain the sequence of events through melody and rhythm.
2. Flashcards and Short-Answer Songs:
We’ll show you how to take question-and-answer content—like vocabulary, trivia, or review prompts—and convert it into musical snippets that can be easily remembered. You'll learn how to structure repetitive, quiz-style lyrics to match melodies that reinforce learning through auditory recall.
3. Bilingual Music for Language Learning:
This section focuses on using AI to create bilingual songs—where each line or verse is sung in one language, immediately followed by its translation. You'll see how this immersive technique helps with pronunciation, grammar structure, and vocabulary retention in a natural, musical flow.
4. Philosophical & Thematic Expansion of Key Moments:
AI tools can also analyze major plot points in history or literature to generate lyrics that reflect on their meaning. We'll explore how to create songs that go beyond "what happened" to "why it matters"—infusing learning with emotional depth and reflective insight based on AI language models trained on a wide range of human perspectives.
5. The Capstone Project – The Iliad in AI Music Form:
Our final project focuses on Book 1 of The Iliad. You’ll select key plot points and thematic moments, write or generate corresponding AI lyrics, and create a complete music playlist that tells the story in song form. You’ll then take this content further by converting it into a narrated video with AI-generated visuals and animations—building a multimedia educational artifact that can be shared or taught.
Who this course is for:
- Teachers who want to make lessons more engaging with music and AI
- Parents looking for creative ways to support their child’s learning
- Homeschool educators seeking multimedia and language tools
- Students who enjoy learning through music and storytelling
- Language learners who want to improve through bilingual lyrics
- History and literature lovers who want to turn stories into songs
- Anyone curious about using AI to create meaningful learning content
- No music or tech background required—just a willingness to explore and create
Instructor
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 57,645 Reviews
- 970,113 Students
- 163 Courses
Through working with students from many different schools, Mr. Steele has learned best practices for helping people understand accounting fast. Learning new skills and finding the best way to share knowledge with people who can benefit from it is a passion of his.
Mr. Steele has experience working as a practicing Certified Public Accountant (CPA), an accounting and business instructor, and curriculum developer. He has enjoyed putting together quality tools to improve learning and has been teaching, making instructional resources, and building curriculum since 2009. He has been a practicing CPA since 2005. Mr. Steele is a practicing CPA, has a Certified Post-Secondary Instructor (CPI) credential, a Master of Science in taxation from Golden Gate University, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics with an emphasis in accounting from The University of California Santa Barbara, and a Global Management Accounting Designation (CGMA) from The American Institute of CPA (AICPA).
Mr. Steele has also authored five books that can be found on Amazon or in audiobook format on Audible. He has developed bestselling courses in accounting topics including financial accounting and QuickBooks accounting software.
In addition to working as an accountant, teaching, and developing courses Mr. Steele has helped create an accounting website at accountinginstruction, a YouTube channel called Accounting Instruction, Help, and How Too, and has developed supplemental resources including a Facebook Page, Twitter Page, and Podcasts that can be found on I-tunes, Stitcher, or Soundcloud. Mr. Steele's teaching philosophy is to make content applicable, understandable, and accessible.
Adult learners are looking for application when they learn new skills. In other words, learners want to be able to apply skills in the real world to help their lives. Mr. Steele’s formal accounting education, practical work experience, and substantial teaching experience allow him to create a curriculum that combines traditional accounting education with practical knowledge and application. He accomplishes the goals of making accounting useful and applicable by combining theory with real-world software like Excel and QuickBooks.
Many courses teach QuickBooks data entry or Excel functions but are not providing the real value learners want. Real value is a result of learning technical skills like applications, in conjunction with specific goals, like accounting goals, including being able to interpret the performance of a business.
Mr. Steele makes knowledge understandable by breaking down complex concepts into smaller units with specific objectives and using step by step learning processes to understand each unit. Many accounting textbooks cram way too much information into a course, making it impossible to understand any unit fully. By breaking the content down into digestible chunks, we can move forward much faster.
Mr. Steele also makes use of color association in both presentations and Excel worksheets, a learning tool often overlooked in the accounting field, but one that can vastly improve the speed and comprehension of learning accounting concepts.
The material is also made understandable through the application of concepts learned. Courses will typically demonstrate the accounting concepts and then provide an Excel worksheet or practice problems to work through the concepts covered. The practice problems will be accompanied by an instructional video to work through the problem in step by step format. Excel worksheets will be preformatted, usually including an answer tab that shows the completed problem, and a practice tab where learners can complete the problem along with a step by step presentation video.
Mr. Steele makes learning accounting accessible by making use of technology and partnering with teaching platforms that have a vision of spreading knowledge like Udemy.