Day One Brainstorming Lists & Resources (2008)
Day One Brainstorming Lists & Resources (2008)
Notes/Lists from Our Day One Sessions
Included on this page:
- Learning Machine Characteristics
- How to Make Sure Learning will NOT happen: (environment, goals, workshop/course design, format, communication styles, etc.)
- What was missing from our Learning Machines
- Characteristics of the Learning Environment of Day 1 of the Conference
- How to create a creative learning environment
- Recommended Resources
Learning Machine Characteristics
- obstacles
- discovery
- communication
- staying connected
- continuous
- technology
- unexpected
- transfer of learning
- multiple ways
- collaboration
- should be fun
- accidental
- stimuli
- opportunity
- basics
- pressure
- synthesis
- make it your own
- learning styles
- no right way
- creativity
- teacher learns
- flexibility
- take the challenge
- inspiration
- spark
- non-linear
- energy
- soaring
- curiosity
- reflection
- nature/organic
- dynamic/not static
- isolation
- networking
- battle
- bureaucracy
- power of limitation
- conflicting advice
- intuition
- endless foundation
How to Make Sure Learning will NOT happen: (environment, goals, workshop/course design, format, communication styles, etc.)
- punishment
- complete dark
- public humiliation
- off the subject
- sensory deprivation
- lethargy
- negativity
- incompetence
- mandatory
- condescension
- bureaucracy
- big egos
- high pressure
- ban questions
- impatience
- yelling
- too much testing
- inconsistency
- isolation
- lack of respect
- no windows, no chairs
- anger
- noise
- unsafe environment
- freezing/too hot
- humorless
- limited resources-equipment or faculty
- boring
- over-teach
- manipulation
- encourage-fear & timidity
- form a committee
- talking monotone
- reform the curriculum
- bad time for learning/sleepy time
- physical harm or intimidation
- overload
- inaudibility
- unclear expectations
- lack of leadership
- low expectations
- bad smells
- indifference
- having just one learning style
- no structure
- ignore the students
- stifling response
- assume the wrong level
- make it seem irrelevant
- skipping steps
- be stupid
- favoritism
- lack of empathy
- lack of stated objectives
- lock the room
- controlling
- teach in a language no one can understand
- wishy-washy processes
- squashing passions
- politics
- racism-prejudice
- no bathrooms
- make learning room inaccessible (handicapped)
- no desks
- distractions
- ignore student backgrounds
- teaching wrong information
- bad textbook
- waste time
- unprepared teacher
- raise tuition
- inappropriate dress/language/behavior
What was missing from our Learning Machines:
- change as a constant
- mentors
- empowerment
- wherewithal
- self-awareness
- peer pressure
- enthusiasm
- persistence
- self-acceptance
- perspiration
- fun
- consequences
- confidence
- stress
- recognition of trends
- initiative
- competence
- health
- planning
- self-responsibility
- reality-testing
- focus
- bad information
- dreams
- money
- goals
- access
- mistakes
- family influences
- rising to high expectations
- surprising learning, surprising outcome
- learning from big mistakes
- accepting “delayed” learning
- emotional aspect of a “twist ending” to learning
- internalization (learning technique, then applying)
- re-education/re-building
- unknown factors/extenuating circumstances
- resilience
- leaving space for the teaching moment to exist
- super-charged learning environment
- participatory
- not controlling the outcome?
- student collectives
- humility
- entrepreneurship
- uninterrupted
- defending
- perspective
- intelligence
- technology will always be part of it
- openness
- outside the box
- conflict competence
- evaluation
- action
- counseling
- failure
- vision
- acceptance
- exploration
- portfolio: put a lot of pieces together
- desire
- struggle
- motivation
- frustration
- passion
- pain
- competition
- uniqueness of each person’s learning
- drive
- choices
- willingness to connect
- limitation
- imitation
- depression
- sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll
- world wide web
- sleep
- youtube
- vacation
- validation
- taking responsibility
- end result
- sage on a stage
- realistic expectations
- keeping the dream
- exhibition of skill
- randomness/messiness
- expanded dream
- multiple plans
- “learning is inevitable”
- faculty-text-curriculum
Characteristics of the Learning Environment of Day 1 of the Conference:
- cooperative
- unconventional introductions (with activities)
- open
- willingness
- collaborative
- informality
- facing each other
- (considerate participants, good listeners)
- safe
- tone- can speak up or raise hands, mutual in/competence
- non-judgmental
- conversational tone
- John set the tone
- tone was set pre-conference
- well balanced structure/freedom
- conducive to absorb information
- building exercise was good
- eager to learn
- varied styles
- contrast to “classroom”
- participatory
- non-lecture format
How to create a creative learning environment:
- get students out of rows
- do different activities- shake it up
- tapping into students competencies
- start with what’s working instead of what’s wrong
- start with a “compost pile”?
- explore the “opposition”/academic training vs. creativity
- digest the rules, translate to suit your needs/get the point across
- teach required material
- seek like-minded, creative support
- bridge traditional/creative learning
- teach new learning methods other than conventional k-12 methods
- recognize when “basics” are needed
- give students a solid foundation
- fill roles of nurturer, disciplinarian, mentor
- student mentors
- alternate between teacher/student and forum atmosphere
- mutual respect
- provide an opportunity for the student to “rise to the occasion”
- provide an opportunity for a student to tap and showcase his/her passion, natural talent
- “Day Without a Grade”
- hold class outside of the classroom
- peer review
- revert to childhood style (play a lullaby)
- combine disciplines (drama/music/technology)
- BOTTOM LINE: start with goals, tweak the learning environment to achieve the learning goals
Recommended Resources
- “Beyond Talent; Creating a Successful Career in Music” Beeching
- “One Person/Multiple Careers - A New Model for Work/Life Success” by Marci Alboher
- “Innovate like Edison” Michael Gelb
- “The E-Myth” Gerber
- “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within.” Robert Quinn
- “Now What?”- Laura Burnam Fortgang
- “Making Music in Looking Glass Land”- Ellen Highstein
- “Performing Artists Handbook” (out of print) Papalos
- “Booking Performance Tours” Tony Micocci
- “MySpace Music Marketing” Baker
Web resources:
- Wesite creation for musicians: www.asoundstrategy.com
- Digital Audio Distribution: MUSICJUSTMUSIC™ is a Worldwide Aggregator & Digital Distributor with offices in New York City & Munich, as well as multiple representations around the world. MJM distributes your catalog to 350 plus online & mobile music stores in 58 countries, reaching about 97% of the consumers buying music as downloads worldwide. Your content gets delivered through MJM’s state-of-the-art uploading software, the Music & Data Manager. MJM does the rest for you by direct feeds & completely automated operations, thereby ensuring a maximum quality of data, highest distribution speed & absolutely accurate accounting. MJM’s partners are the leaders of the digital revolution & many of the most important global entertainment players, lifestyle brands, Internet providers & mobile carriers. MJM stands for a fair & transparent new music business, offers special bonus plans for top-selling product & major artists, as well as providing a custom-tailored automated data transfer & data consolidation for large or wholesale accounts. MJM also provides Music Publishing & Licensing Services for selected artists & writers. MJM helps to bring their music into film, games, tv & serves music supervisors around the globe. http://www.musicjustmusic.com Your music everywhere !
- FREE Arts news digest: www.ArtsJournal.com
- Navigating Music Careers- www.ow/net.rice.edu/~navmusic/
- Arts Entrepreneurship Educator's Network http://www.ae2n.net/
- Music promotion resources:
http://www.arielpublicity.com/ariel_
publicity_site/AP_links.html#articles - The Composer’s 411 here:
http://www.amc.net/resources/
memberresources.asp.
Note: anyone who wants the Bibliography of what we have for music career-related books at New England Conservatory, Angela Beeching is happy to email this to you: abeeching@newenglandconservatory.edu
We have about 250 books and every year buy new stff and retire the no longer relevant stuff.
Music Career Guidebooks
- Career Opportunities in the Music Industry. Field, Shelly. New York: Facts on File, 2000.
- Composing a Life. Bateson, Mary Catherine. NY: Penguine Plume, 1989.
- How to Be Your Own Booking Agent. Goldstein, Jeri. Charlottesville, VA: New Music Times,
- Inc., 1998
- Making Music in Looking Glass Land; A Guide to Survival and Business Skills for the Classical
- Performer. Highstein, Ellen. Fourth edition, New York: CAG, 2003.
- The Self-Promoting Musician. Spellman, Peter. Boston, Berklee Press, 2000.
- Your Own Way in Music. Uscher, Nancy. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
Music Career Advice online
- www.MusicBizAcademy.com: for straight-talking advice on on-line self-promotion, recording, etc. www.knab.com: from music business consultant Chris Knab, great info on self-promotion, CDs, radioplay, etc.
- www.mbsolutions.com: Music Business Solutions for resources, links, articles, newsletter, advice
- www.menc.org: MENC the National Association for Music Education for careers in music: basic descriptive information on a wide range of professional options, plus job openings for music educators.
Career Guides (General)
- Do What You Are. Tieger, Paul D., and Barbara Barron-Tieger. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1995.
- I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was. Sher, Barbara. NY: Delacorte Press, 1994.
- Transitions; Making Sense of Life’s Changes. Bridges, William. Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1980.
- Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Ibarra, Herminia. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003.