[sdiy] LUMI keys

[Nathan Trites]

Don is spot on about teachers having a number of methods at their disposal
and using them when appropriate, and the issue of engineers _thinking_
their gizmo will help people has been proven over and over, but I think
this also ignores the proper application of assistive technologies - which
the keyboard is.

A light up keyboard on it's own is a novelty, and following keys to a song
1:1 probably isn't even a good way to build muscle memory, but there are
definitely a ton of techniques where these tools could be used to actually
reinforce learning. How about showing a blue G on the screen, light up a G
key in blue a second later, eventually you might learn what the key is and
can beat the timer. The next level might replace the blue G with the sound
of a G note. The effectiveness of the hardware depends on how it's used in
education, and it may not be appropriate for all learners. There's a good
deal of neuroscience research on these topics. Kid's learning the "notes"
to guitar hero songs so they can play by memory is a shallow application of
this, I'd love to see software that gamifies music education with a reward
system similar to video games.

Also highly recommend anyone that's interested in more effective education
techniques to read about the Universal Design for Learning
principles/guidelines:
https://www.kurzweiledu.com/udl-three-principles-p4.html
http://udlguidelines.cast.org/

Nathan

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 1:53 PM Donald Tillman <don at till.com> wrote:

> On Jun 19, 2019, at 8:10 AM, Phillip Gallo <philgallo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Don, i agree with the philosophy of your "rant" (also the bag pipes as a
> practical case).
> Isn't there a bit more, though ?
>
> The pedagogical tradition includes "play along" - student plays with the
> teacher.
> The illuminated key clavier idea would seem a close cousin to the "play
> along" with Mel Bay 45rpm record that came with my Kay flattop?
> I can play "Down in the Valley" to this day!
>
>
>
> Every good teacher knows that, in the craft, you have a large number of
> approaches at your disposal; demonstrating for the student, critiquing
> their technique, explaining the theory, guiding the student to discover on
> their own, hitting them with a stick if they're doing it wrong, etc.  And
> the best teachers know when to use each approach.
>
> Sometimes a "brain dump", sometimes the Socratic Method.
>
> Yes, playing along with the student is an excellent teaching technique.
> And play-along records are a great tool because playing with other
> musicians is a different set of issues than playing by yourself, especially
> with regards to timing.  A metronome, also, great tool.
>
> But if you're building a gizmo to help teach an instrument... well,
> there's an enormous tendency to do exactly the wrong thing.  An engineer
> will often abstract the situation into "problem + technology => solution"
> and end up building a device that performs the very function that the
> student most needs to do on their own.
>
> That is the case for light up note keyboards, either in 1969, or today.
>
>   -- Don
> --
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