Return of the Azimuth
“It’s like the rope is clipping through the map”
Max Cutlyp, while rock climbing.
Primary school students need music education resources because they deserve a quality education in all fields, including music. In our attempt to create a solution for our problem we decided to use a few strategies. These strategies being…
1: Assume a beginners mindset
2: Interview Preperation
3: Point of View Mad-lib
Assuming a beginners mindset is a very important for our task in particular because the target audience are primary school students. We must assume a beginners for primary school students because a lot will be beginners and will be overwhelmed if we try and do anything too creative.
Interview Preparation is also quite important for us to consider because although we were once primary school students we no longer are, so interviewing our target audience would be very beneficial for us because they would then get what they want and not what we think that they want.
I don’t really know what a point of view mad lib is but im sure it will help? (https://dschool-old.stanford.edu/groups/k12/wiki/22e39/POV_Madlibs.html)
Ideation Process
-Azimuth Setho
-Interview children and teachers at primary schools to better understand their needs.
-Two Sections: A learning area and a “playground” area.
-Sampled instruments
-WebApp (HTML and JS)
-App (Swift and Xcode)
-Coming to schools and giving personalised music education
-A “musical playground” which is unrestricted but helpful
-A synthesiser made for students (restrictive)
-A book
Our Chosen Ideas
We have decided that we are going to work on creating a synthesiser with a guided teaching program. We choose this because we believe it really fits into the success criteria of our goal. It also has room to combine some other ideas to make it really successful. It will teach primary school students basic music theory as they gradually move along the different lessons. By the end they will have learnt basic music terminology, all the main parts that make up a song and how to create basic beats for their music. We may also consider using this program in a classroom situation where we guide the students along it with extra help while explaining everything.
Smart Goals
- To give a quality understanding of Music to primary school students.
- Create a working synthesiser.
- To create a wide range of lessons on the basics of music.
Group Reflection
Our group has been working together quite compatibly with all of us working on seperate tasks so that the work can be done more efficiently. One of us was creating the start of the synthesiser while the others were researching and doing more ideating.
Design Pictures
The Music Hub 