Mussila Music School

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01/2020

Mussila

Music education

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Mussila Music School is a music learning app for kids.

Mussila Music School is an award-winning music learning app for kids and is perfect for beginners. It teaches kids music through gamified and joyful exercises and classical music courses that keep kids motivated to learn more. Mussila offers hours of musical lessons, challenges and games carefully crafted by musical experts and educators, designed to provide a playful experience.

Age groups

Elementary

Languages

Croatian

Romanian

Slovak

Ukranian

English

Dutch

Finnish

Spanish

Swedish

icelandic

Japanese

Chinese

Portuguese

German

French

Italian

Korean

Malay

Russian

Hindi

Turkish

Norwegian

Brazilian Portuguese

Danish

Greek

polish

Czech

Platform

Mobile Android

Mobile iOS

Registration

Not required

Offline play

Playable offline

Pictures

Videos

Mussila teaches recognizing different instruments

The student will learn the musical notation and rhythm

The app develops aural memory and recognition of notes.

Pedagogy

Educational Quality

Learning Goals

The pedagogical analysis covers how the product supports learning of the identified skills. The student’s role is assessed by four contrary pair parameters, which are selected to cover the most essential aspects on the use of the product.

Passive

Active

The user's progress and engagement on various types of activities is very well notified. Mussila gives clear feedback on correct and incorrect actions and rewards the user for completing levels well. In order to progress the user is required to acquire and use new information - going forward in solution is very accumulating and learning happens by mastering the skills needed for progress.

Rehearse

Construct

The learning goals in Mussila are clear and well structured. The prior skills or knowledge needs to be used in conjunction with new and the content progresses well. All tasks show well when the answers are right or wrong, and it's easy to correct yourself when you make a mistake. The solution aims to keep up the user's interest during the progress and also supports learning new things through creative work.

Linear

Non-linear/Creative

All game areas have a clear start and finish, and the learning path is easy to see. Each user can make their decisions independently. Mussila also promotes free exploration of tools and content - the user can select, what areas to practice or play with the instruments freely. Free play and music creation supports infinite learning outcomes

Individual

Collaborative

The solution allows the learner to make all the decisions individually. They can act and progress autonomously. There's plenty of options and ways to do things, which can be browsed based on your interests.

The following are the high educational quality aspects in this product.

Mussila is a great app that combines theoretical musical knowledge to playing skills and includes a sandbox section for free music production.

An entertaining product that is very suitable for targeted users, children. The visuals and characters are funny and interesting

All aspects of learning are well-considered, there is a proper ratio between exercises, offering new information and free play.

The supported learning goals are identified by matching the product with several relevant curricula descriptions on this subject area. The soft skills are definitions of learning goals most relevant for the 21st century. They are formed by taking a reference from different definitions of 21st century skills and Finnish curriculum.

Subject based learning goals

Play tuned and untuned instruments musically.

Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory.

Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music.

Soft skills learning goals

Practicing to set one's own learning goals

Practicing to use arts as a way to express

Practicing memorizing skills

Practicing fine motor skills

Practising visual recognition

Practicing to notice causal connections

Learning to build information on top of previously learned

Encouraging to build new information and visions

Experiencing and exploring sounds and music from different sources

Understanding concepts of music and familiarizing with different notations

Practicing creative thinking

Practicing to improvise

Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas

Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative

Learning to notice causal connections

Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process

Using technological resources for finding and applying information

Enabling the growth of positive self-image

Practicing persistent working

Using technology for interaction and collaboration

Using technology to express one’s emotions and experiences

Using technology as a part of explorative process

Practicing to use information independently and interactively

Practicing strategic thinking

Familiarizing with the influences of media and understanding its affordances

Developing problem solving skills

Practising to understand visual concepts and shapes and observe their qualities

Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms

Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms

Practicing categorization and classification

Learning to use foreign language in work context

Practicing to use foreign language as a communication tool

Learning about different languages

Learning to combine information to find new innovations

Practicing to notice links between subjects learned

Learning to face failures and disappointments

Creating requirements for creative thinking

Encouraging the growth of positive self-image

Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges

Practicing to evaluate one's own learning

Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning

Using technology resources for problem solving

Mussila Music School