{"140421":{"#nid":"140421","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Magerko\u0027s Earsketch Makes Computer Learning Fun","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis week at Georgia Tech campus, 18 metro Atlanta high school students are composing with Earsketch, a software that is created to address the nation\u2019s shortage of high school students, especially females and minorities, who are interested in computer science careers. \u201cWe use hip-hop music as a core musical domain because of its history of remixing music and its strong roots in Atlanta,\u201d said \u003Cstrong\u003EBrian Magerko\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, one of the two designers of Earsketch. \u201cBut students can work in any genre that speaks to them.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/midtown.patch.com\/articles\/georgia-tech-makes-computer-science-learning-fun\u0022\u003EMidtownPatch\u003C\/a\u003E - July 12, 2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2012-07-16 10:37:50","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:48","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"RadioBio","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/midtown.patch.com\/articles\/georgia-tech-makes-computer-science-learning-fun","dateline":{"date":"2012-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"14469","name":"Brian Magerko"},{"id":"38151","name":"computer learning"},{"id":"14468","name":"EarSketch"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}