Jason Freeman

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Professional Title:

Associate Professor

Organization/Institution:

Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC)

About Me (Bio):

Jason Freeman is an Associate Professor of Music in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech whose research focuses on interactive musical environments, computer music language and API design, STEAM education, and broadening participation in computing.

Personal Website:

http://www.jasonfreeman.net

http://earsketch.gatech.edu

http://gtcmt.gatech.edu

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EarSketch: An Authentic, Studio-based STEAM Approach to High School Computing Education

Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC)

08/01/2014

This project will study the influence on positive student achievement and engagement (particularly among populations traditionally under-represented in computer science) of an intervention that integrates a computational music remixing tool -EarSketch- with the Computer Science Principles, a view of computing literacy that is emerging as a new standard for Advanced Placement and other high school computer science courses.

Engaging High School Students in Computer Science with Co-Creative Learning Companions (Collaborative Research: Magerko)

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)

09/15/2018

This research investigates how state-of-the-art creative and pedagogical agents can improve students' learning, attitudes, and engagement with computer science. The project will be conducted in high school classrooms using EarSketch, an online computer science learning environments that engages learners in making music with JavaScript or Python code. The researchers will build the first co-creative learning companion, Cai, that will scaffold students with pedagogical strategies that include making use of learner code to illustrate abstraction and modularity, suggesting new code to scaffold new concepts, providing help and hints, and explaining its decisions.