Teaching Creative Coding as an Artistic Practice

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Creative coding has become more common in art and emerging media programs, yet research into how teachers teach code as an artistic medium remains limited. This session offers a research-backed framework that adapts arts-based methods to the complexities of the creative coding classroom. The framework creates opportunities for students to observe themselves and the world around them, build technical skills, translate their ideas into projects, and reflect on their projects and experiences. In this session, we’ll present each of these...