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Blended Learning. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/executive-education/why-ross/blended-learning
Personalized Learning. (2018, March 21). Retrieved from http://www.dreambox.com/personalized-learning
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Blended, Flipped, or Personalized?
It is extremely difficult for music educators, specifically ones that teach performing ensembles, to imagine teaching in any other format than what has been done for centuries. Our situation is a bit different in these settings because we are always dealing with a performance task. Most of the activities or assessments in our classrooms are performance based. 99 times out of 100, we are going to be rehearsing with 60 or more students on a piece of music. There is not some magical app or website out there that has help on how to play the pieces right in front of our students. So, it is scary for many music educators to even think about changing it up.
After going through this course, I have began to think of ways I could possibly incorporate these styles of learning in my performing arts classroom. While I do not see it as functional on a daily basis, I do see some of them becoming useful from time to time. These would like surface or be relevant during sectional work. This is a period of time that the students gather in their particular section and work on smaller portions of a piece or pieces. Here I could see blended or personalized learning coming into play. I could see students gathering around a laptop or iPad and watching short master classes on a concept that is presented in their music.
Similarly, I could see flipped learning introduced for home assignment purposes. There could be instructional videos presented by professionals in the field that teach them a subject that I may not have time for in class. These could be considered sub-mini lessons outside of regular class time. Almost like a science lab that is attached to those science classes we took in undergrad, remember those? While this is not complete implementation of these learning devices, I think it is a way to incorporate them into our unique situation.
Image Reference:
Blended Learning. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/executive-education/why-ross/blended-learning
Personalized Learning. (2018, March 21). Retrieved from http://www.dreambox.com/personalized-learning
Image Reference:
Blended Learning. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/executive-education/why-ross/blended-learning
Personalized Learning. (2018, March 21). Retrieved from http://www.dreambox.com/personalized-learning
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Hi Scott,
ReplyDeleteI love the ideas that you had about incorporating blended learning into your class. I agree that it would be challenging and a little scary trying to figure out how to incorporate these ideas into a musical/ orchestral setting. I do like that you decided to use small group time to have students watch masters of a certain instrument online and be able to discuss it together. Also, I agree that technology can be incorporated into homework assignments fairy easily. You could have a student watch a variety of video playing the same piece of music with small differences so that they could identify certain areas they may need to change or improve in their performance. Great job!