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GradSTEP. Students as Producers: Developing dynamic learning in a virtual and real-world setting Dr Cynthia Cyrus, Professor of Musicology Arlyn Goodrich, Blair, class of 2015. How to move students from…. To Product. Idea. with self direction . Context .

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GradSTEP

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  1. GradSTEP Students as Producers: Developing dynamic learning in a virtual and real-world setting Dr Cynthia Cyrus, Professor of Musicology Arlyn Goodrich, Blair, class of 2015

  2. How to move students from… • To Product • Idea with self direction

  3. Context Sophomore Seminar: “deep dive” into Common Practice topic (Brahms and the Anxiety of Influence) Research skills, “practical navigation” of scholarship One of three major assignments: Written (vs oral and multimedia) Three criteria for the assignment: 1) Valuable, 2) Doable, 3) Fit the course theme

  4. Set-up Observation: Brahms has a limited web presence Choice: Written conference paper, 8-10 pp or Wikipedia article written as group work

  5. Wikipedia? Bane! Quick-start Imbalanced Resource Scourge! Public-facing Scholarly anathema! Forum Real and meaningful work

  6. What we created Wikipedia article addressing an under represented area of Brahms’ musical compositions. Can be found on Wikipedia as: Liebeslieder Walzer (Brahms Opus 52)

  7. Product Goals • Evenly Distributed Contributions • Beneficial Process • Unique and Meaningful Creation

  8. Evenly Distributed Contributions • Students have different: • Skills • Motivations • Group Dynamic Balance: • Group set up is everything • Observe and guide if necessary

  9. Practical Details • Organized at the board • Skills taught in-class • Bibliographies • Hypertextuality • What to leave out! • Researched independently but guided by group findings • Proofread and edited live in class

  10. Beneficial Process “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn”. -Benjamin Franklin • The process is more important than the end product

  11. Unique and Meaningful Creation • Encourage Ownership • Students will work harder for something that is theirs • The first step is everything • Creating content won’t be as scary now

  12. Writing as a teaching tool • Transferable skills • Student as author and participant in the work of the academy • Variety • Meaningful study • Context of a broader career, a broader life as engaged and informed citizen • Real life experience • “All that analysis and I only got half a sentence out of it” • A real and lasting public good

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