ERIC Number: EJ1101640
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Publication Date: 2016
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Digital Technologies and the Mediation of Undergraduate Students' Collaborative Music Compositional Practices
Dobson, Elizabeth; Littleton, Karen
Learning, Media and Technology, v41 n2 p330-350 2016
Music education is supported by an increasing range of digital technologies that afford a remarkable divergence of opportunities for learning within the classroom. Musical creativities are not, however, limited to classroom situations; all musicians are engaged in work that traverses multiple social and physical settings. Guided by sociocultural theory of human action, this paper presents a case-study analysis of two computer-based composers creating one soundtrack together. Analysing how collaborative work was undertaken in all of the naturally occurring settings, this paper shows how the students' interrelationships with technology constituted their understandings, creative output and their ecology of practice. The research contributes new knowledge about how digitally resourced creating is shaped by remote, remembered, hypothetical and imagined digital technologies. It also shows how technology-mediated co-creating is a complex interactional accomplishment, implicating the value of long-term multisetting digital co-creating to higher mental development through discourse within music education.
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Musical Composition, Cooperative Learning, Undergraduate Students, Case Studies, Social Theories, Video Technology, Audio Equipment, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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