"And being a role model means that there are going to be members of your family, people who live in your neighborhood, your classmates who watch you, and say, 'Oh! That's how it's done!'"
Edmondson gives four characteristics of an Intelligent Failure
The failure takes place in a novel situation.
The context “presents a credible opportunity to advance toward a desired goal.”
Due dilligence (practice, preparation, research, deliberate process, etc.) is undertaken….
…while removing context can cut away the unimportant, it also runs the risk of cutting away the glue that holds the music together in the first place.
“….taking the elevator down another level.”
“Pearson has managed a feat here by succinctly building on Klein’s earlier definition but expanding it to include a range of conscious activity that can be performed on and around the unconscious activity. Malcolm Gladwell famously called our subconscious ‘the locked door,’ but on Pearson’s account, there might be a few ways to slide some paper under the door, or to put an ear to the door for some helpful signals.”
…This is the type of practical analysis that interests me: the kind that aims squarely at enhancing the performer’s ability to consistently perform a desired shape. Tabuteau accomplishes this by first asking the performer to extending her mind - “offloading” musical thoughts onto the score for safekeeping. But it isn’t merely a way to store information; it is also a way to refine our musical thinking in the first place.
…With this view of the classroom came other ideas: that students are empty vessels to be filled; that students just need to sit still in order to learn…. However, even as the Wachowskis were writing, selling, and filming The Matrix, the first stirrings of a new milieu around human cognition and music education… these new ideas portrayed students… as capable (en)actors and co-creators of knowledge and skill…