{"587096":{"#nid":"587096","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Making the Grade: Tech Professor Blends Music, Computer Coding","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrian Magerko, associate professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was mentioned\u0026nbsp;in \u0026ldquo;Making the Grade: Tech Professor Blends Music, Computer Coding\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program grew out of conversations between Freeman and his EarSketch co-founder, Brian Magerko a musician and professor of digital media at Tech. \u0026ldquo;We were looking at ways to collaborate and settled on this problem of how to engage students in coding,\u0026rdquo; said Freeman. \u0026ldquo;We both saw the same thing: We use computers, but very few of us understand how they work, let alone how to control them or understand their potential.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/local\/making-the-grade-tech-professor-blends-music-computer-coding\/5sQNw6jhE3AI4oLlVlNWPI\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2017-02-07 20:59:15","changed_gmt":"2017-02-07 21:01:39","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Pengcheng Zhang","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/local\/making-the-grade-tech-professor-blends-music-computer-coding\/5sQNw6jhE3AI4oLlVlNWPI\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-01-31T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-01-31T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"523771":{"id":"523771","type":"image","title":"Brian Magerko","body":null,"created":"1460732400","gmt_created":"2016-04-15 15:00:00","changed":"1475895293","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:53","alt":"Brian Magerko","file":{"fid":"205421","name":"brian_magerko_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brian_magerko_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brian_magerko_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3296,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/brian_magerko_0_0.jpg?itok=Rw2PLFwZ"}}},"media_ids":["523771"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}