STEAM Education in Music: Research, Teaching Design and Resources

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COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY IN STEAM EDUCATIONEmpowering Students to Become Music Inventors through the Application of Coding,Electronic Building Blocks and Contemporary Music Composition TechniquesPURPOSEThe Hong Kong Education Bureau, local schools and institution substantially needs topromote STEAM education to nurture students’ creativity, collaboration and problemsolvingskills through the integration of academic disciplines of Science, Technology,Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. This project aims to provide an environment forstudents to experience collaborative creativity through innovative STEAM initiatives.With the funding of Teaching Development Grant (TDG) at The Education Universityof Hong Kong, various STEAM activities are enabled in the course – ‘Creativity in Music’.QUESTION• How do students collaborate in a creative music project?• To what extent does the project create a collaborative learning environment forcreative music-making?CONTENT• An elective course entitled ‘Creativity in Music’ for all undergraduate students inthe Education University of Hong Kong• A total of 33 students who meet for three-hour lecture per week in one semester• Conducted in a formal teaching and learning environment for 13 weeks• The class consists of music and non-music major students• Students are equipped with necessary skills in composing, coding, andinstrument making with the use of Max 7 and littleBits electronic buildingblocks.• Students design their electronic instrument followed by creating a composition• The final product is performed and video-taped by the students04
LITERATURE REVIEW• John-Steiner suggests that ‘Sustained mutually beneficial collaboration provides a mirror toan individual, broadening his or her self-knowledge, which is crucial to creativity’(Barrett, 2006).• Collaborative music-making enables students to learn from the differences through thecreative process (Saether, 2013).• Considering that our modern educational system has labelled artificial disciplinary boundariesbetween arts, science and math, the concept of STEAM is a modern throwback to the notionof educating the ‘whole child’ (Connelly, 2012) for creative expression in multiple media(Buonincontro, 2018).• As translational disciplines that bridge the generation of new knowledge and its application,art and design would contribute to innovation and economic competitiveness in the mannerthat STEM fields had accomplished in the past. (Allina, 2018)• Instrument making is frequently excluded from the process of music making, especiallyin this technological era. In fact, music making should not be limited to performing andcreating. Designing an electronic instrument is aligned with the composer’s creative intention(Matsunobu, 2012).METHODOLOGYThe project is a descriptive research to investigate collaborative music-making through STEAMinitiated activities. The data of this research were collected through:• Focus group interviews of three groups of students. The objectives wereo To gather the information on students’ music profileo To understand the experiences of the STEAM initiativeo To understand whether the authentic project provides a collaborativelearning environment for creative music-making• Students’ group creative music projects over four weeks were documented• Students’ interviews and reflections were transcribed and analysed through thematic coding05
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