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Greg Giannis
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October 22, 2015
hi,
I am an artist, programmer and researcher. I am researching the teaching of software to artists. My experience has been that there is a great deal of resistance to this. I am interested to learn what has been the experience of other educators who teach coding to artists using scratch.
 
Thank You
Dr Greg Giannis
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Wilhelmina Peragine
Administrator
October 22, 2015
Hi Greg,

Thanks for (re)posting this post. I have a background working teaching artists, but not working with TAs and coding. I'm curious to know more about the resistance you've heard about and I wonder whether it was the subject (was it discomfort with digital media?) or the way the subject was introduced (was it a mandate?).

Here's a ScratchEd story from last year that relates - about an Artist in Residence who uses Scratch with student artists: http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/stories/using-scratch-teaching-artist-residency-florida

Direct link to Nathan's blog here: http://nathanselikoff.com/2316/events/teaching-artist-residency-stone-middle-school

I would love to continue this conversation and keep looking for resources.

Thanks!
Willa