Web 2.0 with Alert Support for Busy Parents in Suzuki Method of Children Music Teaching
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Web 2.0 with Alert Support for Busy Parents in Suzuki Method of Children Music Teaching
Cheuk-ting CHANDept of Music
HK Baptist [email protected]
Dickson K. W. CHIUSenior Member, IEEE
Dickson Computer Systems, HK
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Introduction
Suzuki method for children learning musical instruments well received and practised worldwide developed and expanded for various kinds of instruments
Key requirements Parental involvement and learning environment Become obstacle for busy parents in metropolises
Solution: Web 2.0 with Alert Support for Suzuki method Platform
(WASSAP) provides a virtual musical environment for teachers, students,
parents Alert Management System (AMS) to facilitate their
communications Enabling ICT infrastructure: high computing penetration,
high-bandwidth broadband and wireless infrastructure.
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Philosophy of Suzuki method
All children have potential to become musical Applying “Mother tongue” method to children’s
music learning. Environment rather than genetics will determine
the success and failure of students.
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Careful and sequential planning of curriculum Breaking each new skill into the smallest possible steps
Avoiding dry technical exercises New technical skills and musical concepts
introduced and disguised with the context of familiar musical pieces
Interesting and attractive to the children and their families.
Motivation for learning comes from the desire to learn new pieces in the repertoire.
Curriculum of Suzuki Method
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Technical concepts of Suzuki method
Begin lessons early Suzuki Triangle: strong partnership among
student, teacher, and parent Daily listening to recordings Learning by ear before reading music notations
Like learning mother-tongue One-point learning - focus on only 1 technique at
a time Individual lessons at each child’s own pace Use group classes to review the materials
presented in the private lesson and to introduce the skill of playing together.
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Parent’s role suggested by Suzuki
To cooperate with the music instructors Give positive encouragement to their children Attend child’s lesson Learn to play the instrument even before the
child understand what the child is expected to do.
Foster the musical environment by attending concerts and playing recordings at home
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Review of the role of parents in children’s music learning in Hong Kong
Observation based on the authors’ experience teaching music in school instrumental tutor conversation with parents.
Little involvement of parents in their children’s learning.
Parents are busy and exhausted with their daily job. Over-relying on household helpers
Education level of parents.
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Specific problems of parent involvement
To cooperate with the music instructors Parents have inadequate knowledge and motivation No time to attend lessons due to long working hours and
trips Give positive encouragement to their children
Seldom – because of Chinese culture Parents don’t know how to appraise their children’s
performance Learn to play the instrument to understand what
the child is expected to do No time, inadequate educational background
Foster the musical environment by attending concerts and playing recordings at home
Not so often, too much other entertainments Short-sighted motivation
Just for greater opportunity to be admitted to a better school
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System Architecture
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ContentDatabase
Application Logic
Alert Management
System
Web / mobileAccess
Ale
rt
XSLT ProcessorWeb Portal
Public ContentServices, e.g.,Youtube, Facebook, …
Triggered Action
Alert Input
Desktop Laptop PDA Mobile
Parents Teachers Students Administrators
Internet
Web 2.0 with Alert Supportfor Suzuki Approach Platform
User & CurriculumDatabase
Content Mgr Curriculum Mgr Event Mgr Session Mgr Forum Mgr Messaging MgrUser Mgr Configuration Mgr …
Main Entities and Relationships
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Curriculum Skill Step
1 * 1 *
Media Segment
1*
Student
Parent Teacher
Session
Event
Enrol
Mentor
recording
demoobjective
User ForumMessage
recommend
receive
send
Attachment
1*
Parent Assistance Offered
Communicating and cooperating with music instructors Understand children’s progress and performance in
lessons Forums
event announcement provide assistance
Messaging teacher’s comments starts conversation Response from parents or even children progress monitoring
Increase parental involvement in their children’s learning progress
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Parent Assistance Offered (2)
Increase parental involvement AMS alert the parents of the start of lessons and
other related events Maintain an open, warm, and supportive
atmosphere via messaging for busy parents Video conferencing to support interactions of
remote parents with teaching sessions Recording of the sessions for parents' review. Sharing music media with their children
Teachers share their own recording clips Teachers prescribe media for their daily listening and
practice Facilitate parents to practice music with children at home
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Parent Assistance Offered (3)
Fostering a virtual musical environment Organizing various kinds of events and activities Web activities now often considered as entertainment Share appropriate concert video clips Virtual music competition Discussions among teachers, parents, and older
students enhances the motivation among the children sharing challenges with peers Old students as mentors
Notification of events and important messages can be adequately supported by our AMS
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Conclusions Key to Suzuki’s method:
parental involvement and learning environment Our platform helps busy parents and creates e-
learning environment Contemporary Web 2.0 and ICT facilitates
collaboration:music sharing, recording, messaging, discussions, …
Provides fundamental support for (e-)curriculum design and execution
AMS further helps event notifications Help busy mobile people in learning participation,
overcoming much restrictions of time and space.
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Future Work
Carry out these remedies in our professional practices
Performance evaluation and process improvement Comparative field study Further development of the ontology for clinical
processes. Application of ontology and other social networking
technologies (e.g., reputation system) for this purpose.
Question and Answer
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