Name Lit Review If you cannot answer the question please

………………………. explain the issue

Plenary
What is your topic?

Gamification and
teaching music
notation

What is your specific

question? Can we use
gamification to
teach music
notation to low
ability students or
no prior
knowledge or low
enthusiasm or to
students who are
used to gaming
and social media
to provide
constant
stimulation
(painlessly!)

What area of the Music notation

curriculum will be the and the areas of
focus of your study? the curriculum that
are facilitated by a
knowledge of
music (e.g.
performance,
analysis and
composition).
Could impact all
key stages?

What are the You need to be

misconceptions/area clever to read
s of difficulty in the music.
chosen area of the It takes years of
curriculum? specialist study
It’s not relevant to
my genre
It’s not necessary
in the YouTube
age.
What are the main
claims being made That music Suzuki taught that music learning should
on your topic? notation is crucial begin with imitation of sound rather than
to development as notation.
a musician (i.e. a https://www.britishsuzuki.org.uk/pages/76-
person’s musical about-suzuki
development can
be halted by a lack
of ability regarding
music notation)

That certain
aspects of musical
knowledge can
only be taught via
notation.

That everyone can

learn to read
music

That gamification
might be a way of
making the
teaching of music
notation more
accessible

What are the related Gamification of

topics? education in
general
Current methods
of teaching
notation

What is the structure

of your lit review? Rational
E.g. Sub-headings
The importance to
the teacher of
music notation.

The importance to
the student of
music notation.

What are the

barriers to learning
to read music
notation?
(including literacy
issues, SEND,
 etc)

What is
gamification?
What are its
advantages and
disadvantages?

How might
gamification
remove the
barriers to learning
music notation?

What other
aspects of music
teaching might
gamification help
with? Where
would gamification
not help?

Conclusion.

Any other issues? Establishing that

lack of reading
ability impacts
musical
development

Does it really limit

the students ability
to learn or is it
simply that the
teacher needs
different strategies
to teach certain
musical aspects?

How does
gamification result
in long term
learning or just a
quick fix?

How does sight

reading vs
analysis use
cases for notation
impact the type of
games required?

Much of the
literature around
gamification
focuses on
gamification via
computer based
activities. How do
we use
gamification
techniques without
access to
technology?