Biography

Eric Lana holds a degree in Music from the University Federal of Ouro Preto (Brazil), a master's degree in Education from Vale do Rio Verde University (Brazil) and a PhD student in Music - Choral Direction from the University of Aveiro (Portugal), in the performance studies as an integrated researcher to the Institute of Ethnomusicology Inet-MD / Portugal. In his PhD research, he is dedicated to the undertaking of digital music learning ecologies applied to choir singers. His professional experience goes through education, direction, singing, piano, recorder and socio-cultural project management. He was a scholarship student at the Foundation of Artistic Education of Belo Horizonte, a professor at the University Federal of Ouro Preto and a Lyric singer at the Lyric Choir of Minas Gerais. Attended courses in choral and orchestral conducting in Brazil and abroad conducting choirs, orchestras and instrumental ensembles under the guidance of conductors, Celso Antunes (OSESP), Edésio Lara (UFOP), Osvaldo Ferreira (Portugal), Marco Antônio Silva Ramos (USP), Marco Aurélio Lischt (IMCP), Neylson Crepalde (UFMG), Vitor Gabriel (UNESP) and Winfried Toll (Germany), Cristoph Siebert (Germany), Claus Bantzer (Germany) and Borbála Szirányi (Hungary). He is currently the Artistic Director and Pedagogical and Project Coordinator of the Canarinhos de Itabirito Choir Cultural Association. He is Vice-President of the Federation National of Singing Boys of Brazil.

Abstract
The bonds established by teenagers with music are increasingly linked to the use of mobile computing devices. A pilot study associated with a literature review indicated potentialities in the use of m-learning as a support tool for children and youth choral performance. The aim of this research is to develop new forms of choral practice that consider these musical learning ecologies and undertake m-learning as constitutive elements of pedagogical approaches applied to children and youth choral performance. The qualitative research will be divided into two parts: (i) systematic literature review based on the PRISMA protocol (Moher et al. 2009); and (ii) fieldwork - which will include an observational study in virtual communities and an action investigation based on the diagram of Mackay and Marshall (2001) in the Canarinhos choir of Itabirito / Brazil. The results of this research will be incorporated into a free digital content-gathering platform with approaches aimed at directors and singers, aimed at the wide dissemination of results and new perspectives and resources for choral practice.