The CrazySquare solution: a gamified ICT tool to support the musical learning in pre-adolescents

Abstract

In this paper, we present the current prototype of the CrazySquare Project which is aimed to provide a gamified ICT (Information and Communications Technology) solution for musical education. The project is inspired by Gordon's Musical Learning Theory. It is dedicated to the guitar since it is one of the most played instrument in Italian's Middle Schools. The TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) framework has been used as a way to effectively integrate the technology into teaching activities. Moreover, the CrazySquare project follows an iterative process based on the TEL-oriented UCD approach. Currently, after carrying out an expert-based evaluation with several domain-experts, we are designing the user-based evaluation phase which will conclude the second iteration.