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About EarSketch

EarSketch is a code-to-compose platform where students of all ages learn to code by remixing music. Students connect computational thinking with music and music technology by manipulating loops, composing beats, and applying effects using a multi-track digital audio workstation (DAW) and all while coding in the platform's code editor using Python or JavaScript.

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Since launching in 2011, EarSketch's K-12 education team developed tutorials, curriculum, and trainings to support K-12 learning. The EarSketch Teachers website holds a repository of resources for K-12 teachers to engage their students. Additionally, EarSketch's K-12 education team works in partnership with various organizations to sponsor competitions!

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"Creating the Next Code Composers" produced by Troy Robinson, Monet Fort, et al., Georgia Tech Institute of Technology

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Research and Design

EarSketch's developer and K-12 education team partnered with a Research and Evaluation team to conduct research, iterate on the platform, and develop curriculum to support teachers with evidence-based learning and practices in K-12 classrooms. Below include publications for *light* reading on how EarSketch has impacted K-12 student learning and the results of the studies. More publications can be found on Google Scholar by searching EarSketch.

Promoting intentions to persist in computing: an examination of six years of the EarSketch program

Dana Wanzer, Tom Mcklin, Jason Freeman, Brian Magerko, and Taneisha Lee

2020

Computer Science Education

EarSketch: engaging broad populations in computing through music

Jason Freeman, Brian Magerko, Doug Edwards, Tom Mcklin, Taneisha Lee, and Roxanee Moore

2019

Communications of the ACM

Implementing EarSketch: Connecting Classroom Implementation to Student Outcomes

Tom Mcklin, Dana Wanzer, Taneisha Lee, Brian Magerko, Doug Edwards, Sabrina Grossman, and Jason Freeman

2019

SIGCSE '19

Authenticity and Personal Creativity: How EarSketch Affects Student Persistence

Tom Mcklin, Brian Magerko, Taneisha Lee, Dana Wanzer, Doug Edwards, and Jason Freeman

2018

SIGCSE '18

Creativity in Authentic STEAM Education with EarSketch

Shelly Engelman, Brian Magerko, Tom Mcklin, Morgan Miller, Doug Edwards, and Jason Freeman

2017

SIGCSE '17

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