{"items": [{"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/995232114742?comment_id=995238696552", "anchor": "fb-995238696552", "service": "fb", "text": "Before learning to call, how much time had you spent learning to repair a dance that had started to break due to confusion?
For instance, had you started to notice that certain moves like \u201clong lines\u201d acted as reset points where people who were confused could return to the dance?", "timestamp": "1558763202"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/995232114742?comment_id=995238696552&reply_comment_id=995250877142", "anchor": "fb-995238696552_995250877142", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I'd been dancing for many years before I started calling, so I had practice at putting things back together.
Long lines is the sort of figure that does help \"reset\" people and get everyone on the same page, but you do have to be careful to prompt it if you aren't sure the experienced dancers know it's there. Worse is when you skip a different prompt and a few people start confidently into long lines. Not only does that mess up this time through but the incorrect muscle memory it builds will last through several more times. I'd see this most if you had something like a partner swing that went into a circle and a neighbor swing later that went into long lines. People learn \"in this dance, a swing is followed by a circle or long lines\" before they learn the whole dance.
There are other figures like \"partner balance and swing\" where even if a couple doesn't remember what to do they have quite a while to notice what everyone else is doing and pick it up. These you can also drop out sooner.", "timestamp": "1558784834"}, {"author": "Bill", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/995232114742?comment_id=995245827262", "anchor": "fb-995245827262", "service": "fb", "text": "A thoughtful note; thanks! I often dance with beginners, and as their \"personal caller\" I drop out, little by little, when I can. I usually drop in again when we reach the end of the set and the beginner has to learn the other half of the dance.", "timestamp": "1558780518"}, {"author": "Wolf", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/995232114742?comment_id=995247259392", "anchor": "fb-995247259392", "service": "fb", "text": "This is going to be about neural networks, isn't it? ;-)", "timestamp": "1558782411"}, {"author": "Bill", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/995232114742?comment_id=995247259392&reply_comment_id=995251810272", "anchor": "fb-995247259392_995251810272", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I don't see the connection - wait - I do see the connection, and I'll use it again.", "timestamp": "1558785712"}, {"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/995232114742?comment_id=995256166542", "anchor": "fb-995256166542", "service": "fb", "text": "Threshold learning, is what I've heard this called.", "timestamp": "1558789112"}, {"author": "Gianna", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/995232114742?comment_id=995260927002", "anchor": "fb-995260927002", "service": "fb", "text": "This is a really thoughtful reflection, both because of the parenting parallels you mention and because it taught me a lot about calling and clued me into some things going on on the caller's head and on the dance floor that, as a sort of perpetually intermediate dancer, I haven't been as explicitly aware of. It also made me think that a similar learning process might be going on in the realm of playing dance music, related to getting away from dots and internalizing the music.", "timestamp": "1558792406"}, {"author": "Sarah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/995232114742?comment_id=995273267272", "anchor": "fb-995273267272", "service": "fb", "text": "yeah! this is most of academic teaching too, for most ages that I've encountered. It's so important to give enough for the learning to feel safe and fun, but not so much that internal motivation doesn't kick in. Another name it's sometimes given is scaffolding, or providing a structure to build from and slowly taking away those supports as the construction no longer needs them. As you note with young children, \"Giving enough support but no more than needed is actually a really general skill, and one I've found useful in a lot of areas. Recently I've noticed how much it comes up in parenting. In so many areas kids move from needing you to do something for them, to being able to do it with some help, to being able to do it fully on their own, and you want to provide just the right amount of help throughout.\"", "timestamp": "1558799777"}, {"author": "Yaron", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/995232114742?comment_id=995362797852", "anchor": "fb-995362797852", "service": "fb", "text": "So... \ud83e\udd14 Turn on, tune in, drop out... \ud83d\ude09", "timestamp": "1558846406"}]}