The paper Digital little music makers: Designing and implementing an innovative educational music proposal embodying the concept of “making” was published in the Constructionism Conference Proceedings: Making and Innovation by OAPublishing. The study presents the teaching intervention Digital Little Music Makers as a workshop for creative production and making, where students compose, design, construct and revise musical and interactive artefacts.
The educational implementation lasted 30 weeks at Pierce and was examined through qualitative Design-Based Research. Data were gathered from semi-structured interviews, field observations, informal discussions and student artefacts. Findings indicate strong engagement, agency and creativity, together with the development of computational thinking, artistic expression and collaboration. Students worked with music production, coding, artificial intelligence and immersive technologies to turn ideas into tangible or digital musical objects. The study links this process with constructionist learning, in which knowledge develops through creation, experimentation, revision and discussion around shared artefacts rather than through the reproduction of predetermined solutions.
