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A grant proposal to teach a NIME-like course at The University of Hartford by Spencer Bambrick (The Hartt School [Music]) and Roy Vanegas (College of Arts & Sciences [Computing Sciences]).
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Active Learning #5

Open code-warrior opened 4 years ago

code-warrior commented 4 years ago

Here’s what I have as a response to the active learning question:

We will employ Harvard’s “group work” and “collaborative note-taking” active learning concepts to teach students how to build circuits, solder electronic components, and test sensors. For group work, we will pair a student who identifies as a musician with one who identifies as an engineer. In this manner, musicians will help engineers with musical concepts, and engineers will help musicians with engineering concepts.

For collaborative note-taking, students will be given time to review each other’s notes for mistakes. At the end of class, students will consolidate their individual notes into a “master” note sheet that may be used by both students. (Cornell’s active learning methodologies include a similar concept called “catch-up”.)

We will carry out the aforementioned by oscillating between lecture and activity at a ratio of 3:1 or 2:1, depending on the material. For example, for every 12 minutes of lecture we’ll break for 4 minutes of activities. Or, for every 20 minutes of lecture we’ll break for 10 minutes of activities. Each class will begin with a session breakdown and end with a summary.

Because of the amount of material we need to cover, we estimate that an active learning model will be observed for 40–50% of the semester.

sbambrick1217 commented 4 years ago

This looks great to me! Logistically speaking I feel like 4-8 might not be enough time for some harder topics? I'm just guessing though... as a non-technical person I know it takes me quite a while of hands-on activity until I understand it. But if it's broken into very small tasks that could work better.

code-warrior commented 4 years ago

Excellent point. I updated the next-to-last paragraph.

sbambrick1217 commented 4 years ago

Looks great. I’m sure this is something we can iron out in detail when developing the course as well.

Also - as co teachers we have the added benefit of being able to help out more than one group at a time during “active learning” sections. So that’s really useful. I think this is a great response!

sbambrick1217 commented 4 years ago

I replaced the sentence about pairing students, as requested by UIS:

"We will employ Harvard’s “group work” and “collaborative note-taking” active learning concepts to teach students how to build circuits, solder electronic components, and test sensors. We will pair students with a diversity of backgrounds and experience for group work. In this manner students will create and collaborate, combining a multitude of perspectives and domains into their work.

For collaborative note-taking, students will be given time to review each other’s notes for mistakes. At the end of class, students will consolidate their individual notes into a “master” note sheet that may be used by both students. (Cornell’s active learning methodologies include a similar concept called “catch-up”.)

We will carry out the aforementioned by oscillating between lecture and activity at a ratio of 3:1 or 2:1, depending on the material. For example, for every 12 minutes of lecture we’ll break for 4 minutes of activities. Or, for every 20 minutes of lecture we’ll break for 10 minutes of activities. Each class will begin with a session breakdown and end with a summary.

Because of the amount of material we need to cover, we estimate that an active learning model will be observed for 40–50% of the semester."