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Musical tables is designed to support the music teacher in lessons aimed at children aged 5 to 14, i.e. in the last year of Infant School, Primary and Middle Schools.

The app is organized in collections made up of a variable number of audiovisual units, which it is possible to carry out various playful activities, mainly based on analytical listening, memorization, writing.

The teacher can set up the activities in an elastic way, adapting them each time to the level reached by the class or by the individual pupils.

Whatever the method adopted by the teacher, the app can be a useful tool for developing and monitoring the levels of various musical skills and knowledge, especially with regard to listening.

The famous educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom has identified three domains of learning: cognitive, affective and psychomotor. We believe that this corresponds to another famous tripartition of music, namely the three musical conducts identified by François Delalande, based on the reserch findings of Jean Piaget: somatosensory play, symbolic play and rules play.

We believe it is convincing to associate the psychomotor with somatosensory, the affective with the symbolic, the cognitive sphere with rules play.

Although we are aware that these three domains are interconnected and cannot be separated into compartments, we believe that this app is mainly about the cognitive domain, the play of rules.

Regarding to psychomotor domain, we have already started working on another specific app, not yet released.

For the affective domain we trust to a large extent in the irreplaceable and precious work of teachers in the flesh.

As we wrote at the beginning, this app intends to support the teacher’s activity, provide him with a useful aid, not replace it.

The music teacher can be found working in large classes. For this reason, the identification and solution of specific learning difficulties of individual pupils can remain neglected. The two areas in which the teacher needs to be particularly supported are: monitoring of learning and the delivery of specific exercises to help pupils overcome obstacles.

In this sense, this app can be an effective tool. And it can also be useful in other various circumstances: aptitude tests, common tests between various classes, comparison of the results of various methodologies, experiments, scholastic realities in different socio-economic contexts.

The app can be used on smartphones, tablets and digital boards. It therefore lends itself both to collective class activity and to individual activity at home.

In school as in society we are witnessing an increase in digital devices. The school must update itself, which is why we have faced the challenge of adopting the new technical tools while maintaining the education and training objectives, aiming to offer equal opportunities to all students, without letting ourselves be hypnotized by the "wonders" of the technical tool itself.

Musical tables is to be considered a work in progress. Many collections, activity types, verification tools can still be implemented. We hope to provide a useful service to teachers and pupils and to receive inspiring suggestions for improvement.