Hi Kyle,
This is great! I have always thought PD was a great was to teach children the bridge between math and art....
I actually once gave my children (2 girls, 6 and 8 at the time) a brief PD tutorial and found them to be very creative and intuitive with the limited objects that I exposed them to.
I just showed them how to create objects, messages, bangs and number boxes and then how to patch them together - all through the menu, no key shortcuts. Then I gave them a few of the simplest object names (osc~, metro, random, dac~) and taught them a little randomization synth and how to create sounds with a number box + osc~.... all very simple stuff. Then I introduced the math objects (+, -, *, /) - nothing too fancy. And that was it for lesson One!
They played with this for a couple hours and built a really interesting patch that made some fun sound... they loved it and I found that with just a few simple tools children can really begin to experiment in different ways than we can - maybe they do not have the same institutional exposure of 'the right way' and 'the wrong way'? I have found that any method children can utilize to learn through personal exploration and ENJOY learning is the 'right' way to learn...
After a bit you can see when they start to become a little bored and that is when you can begin to introduce new concepts and objects to keep their attention...
Worked for me!
This is just my personal case-study. It would be interesting if you documented your experiences in a research study maybe? PD and primary school education? It would be a good study for 'Studies in Art Education' or a similar education based journal....
cheers mark
mark edward grimm | m.f.a | ed.m ________________________________________
--- On Fri, 6/13/08, Kyle Klipowicz kyleklip@gmail.com wrote:
From: Kyle Klipowicz kyleklip@gmail.com Subject: [PD] Teaching Pd to Children To: "PDlist" pd-list@iem.at Date: Friday, June 13, 2008, 2:30 PM Hello Listers~
I'm teaching a 1 month Summer school session for K-8 grade students and would like to include Pd for a mathematics learning tool. I am wondering if anyone else has done something similar, or has any links to DSP/math related materials that would be suitable for this age group. Also, if anyone is sharing their lesson plans for Pd beginners, I would love to see something that I might be able to adapt for my students.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, as kids often hate Summer school and I want to make this a fun activity for them.
~Kyle
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