Internet of Musical Things for Children

Early Childhood Music Ed-ucation; Embodied Music Pedagogy; Embodied Sense-Making; IoMusT; Nonlinear Pedagogy; Participatory Sense-Making; Early childhood music ed-ucation; Early childhoods; Embodied music pedagogy; Embodied sense-making; Internet of musical thing; Music education; Nonlinear pedagogy; Participatory sense-making; Sense making; Music; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Networks and Communications; Hardware and Architecture; Signal Processing; Media Technology

Abstract :

[en] One of the musical activities that can be positively impacted by the Internet of Musical Things (IoMusT) is music education. However, although the IoMusT's properties hold a promising potential to enrich music learning processes, the extent to which early childhood music educators and scholars have embraced this emerging type of technology and explored their potential is still very limited. To bridge this gap, we first survey the relevant literature at the confluence of the Internet of Things, music technology, and education. Then, we propose a pedagogical framework to support designing IoMusT applications for early childhood music education. The framework is based on five dimensions: embodied sense-making, nonlinearity, participatory sense-making, privacy and security, as well as accessibility and inclusiveness. Furthermore, we corroborate the framework with a set of pedagogical scenarios showing its usage. Our study aims to foster interdisciplinary research at the confluence of pedagogy and music technology in an application domain, that of early childhood music education, hitherto unexplored.

Disciplines :

Education & instruction

Author, co-author :

NIJS, Luc ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Education and Social Work (DESW) > Institute of Musicology and Arts

Turchet, Luca; University of Trento, Dpt. of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Trento, Italy

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

Internet of Musical Things for Children

Publication date :

2024

Event name :

2024 IEEE 5th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2)

Event place :

Erlangen, Deu

Event date :

30-09-2024 => 02-10-2024

Audience :

International

Journal title :

IEEE Xplore

Publisher :

IEEE

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Focus Area :

Educational Sciences

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http://xplorestaging.ieee.org/ielx8/10704037/10704076/10704214.pdf?arnumber=10704214

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