ERIC Number: EJ849004
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Publication Date: 2008-Jun
Pages: 4
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ISSN: ISSN-0816-9020
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Seeking Affordances: Searching for New Definitions and New Understandings of Children's Relationships with Technologies in Musical Compositions
Reynolds, Nick
Australian Educational Computing, v23 n1 p15-18 Jun 2008
Seeking understandings of the relationships children have with electronic environments is needed in order to continue to develop our understandings of what children are doing in those environments and why. This paper looks at the musical compositions of children in an electronic environment and attempts to demonstrate how those compositions are as much a product of the computer/child relationship as they are products of children's musical understandings. The paper also suggests the need for new definitions of children's musical compositions and new understandings of the affordances of the environment. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Musical Composition, Children, Music Education, Educational Principles, Educational Philosophy, Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Technology Integration, Influence of Technology, Multimedia Materials, Multimedia Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Computers
Australian Council for Computers in Education. PO Box 1255, Belconnen, ACT 2616 Australia. Tel: +61-3-9349-3733; Fax: +61-3-9349-5356; Web site: http://www.acce.edu.au
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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