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The researchers and the two teachers involved in this Music initiative considered the video data and the pupil interview data and reflected on it with the Music Subject Design Team.
These are some of the topics and issues they discussed:
- the way in which the software motivated the pupils
- how easy it was for all of them to make music
- the importance of the visual representation on the screen
- the limitatations of this particular piece of software
Linking home and School Learning?
A concern was that the teachers were unable to marry pupils’ out-of-school learning with their work in school: some children had used similar or more complex software programmes at home but, because the school did not have the same software and the pupils had no means of recording their work to bring it into school, the teachers were not in a position to build on the experiences as much as they would have liked.
This will always be the case unless pupils and schools purchase the same software or superior importing and exporting facilities are commonly provided.
You can find out more about composing on the computer in a paper by Marina Gall and Nick Breeze (the InterActive researchers) which was published in 2005 in a special issue of Educational Review, featuring the InterActive Education Project's research.
Music Composition Lesson: the multimodal affordances of technology.
Educational Review 57:4 pp 415-423
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