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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Kyle Klipowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > > -- > ----- > ------------ > ---- ----- > ---- -------- - ------ > http://perhapsidid.wordpress.com > http://myspace.com/kyleklipowicz_______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
