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Tackling engagement in computing with computational music remixing

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SIGCSE '13: Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 657 - 662

https://doi.org/10.1145/2445196.2445390

Published: 06 March 2013 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe EarSketch, an integrated curriculum, software toolset, and social media website, grounded in constructionist principles, that targets introductory high school computing education. We hypothesize that the use of collaborative computational music composition and remixing may avoid some of the engagement and culture-specific issues that other approaches, both in music and other media, have had. We discuss the design of EarSketch, its use in a pilot summer camp, and the evaluation results from that pilot.

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Tackling engagement in computing with computational music remixing
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
      2. Model curricula

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SIGCSE '13: Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

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DOI:10.1145/2445196

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