Facilitating music education through the use of technology

Abstract

Technology is one of the words that today’s younger generation does not struggle to understand. As we reach the middle of the second decade of the 21st century, its impact in the field of education is definitely nothing short of an accepted fact. This study is conducted to analyse the advice provided by experts as to the possibility of teaching music facilitated through technology in secondary schools. With differentiated teaching in mind, lessons need to be adapted in order to effectively cater for the different abilities found in today’s classrooms. The data provided by interviewing four teachers and sixteen students alike, together with the work of previous researchers, will serve as a founding block for the development of this dissertation and for the development of the researcher’s thesis. The research question focuses on how music lessons can be delivered in a modern and attractive manner through technology and on how music technologies facilitate the music experience in secondary schools. Taking into consideration how technology has been successfully applied in other countries and following their fruitful experience, this study aims to show how this can also be applied to the Maltese islands in order to improve music teaching standards.