Short Form Pieces /

Student Created Computationally Generated Geometric Design

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Chance Encounters: Pedagogical Methodologies for Teaching Creative Coding

Andrew Demirjian

This paper presents a model for teaching drawing with computer programming, using conceptual and visual characteristics of twentieth century avant-garde painting practices. It examines how this pedagogic methodology is then developed to combine, synthesize, and apply these insights algorithmically, using the Python programming language, to produce generative artistic forms that can be evaluated and iteratively refined. The learning unit’s goal is to provide media production students with a tangible formula to continually build their critical, creative, and technical skills as they engage with visual culture.

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Short Form Pieces / Teaching Fails

When Wikipedia Fought Back

Will Mari

In this short essay, the author explains what went wrong when he asked his students to tackle an ill-conceived project—an in-class Wikipedia edit—and what he’d do differently next time.

A brightly painted mural located on 166 th Street and Grand Concourse in the Bronx, depicting people in a Bronx cityscape.

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Assignments / Short Form Pieces

Visualizing the Urban

Nga Than

This assignment asks students to use the ubiquitous cell phone to take pictures of their neighborhoods, where they live, work, study, and play. Then they engage with the pictures in a sociologically critical way. It encourages critical thinking and analysis and promotes a better understanding of urban processes.

A map titled "History of American Capitalism", which shows superfund sites and the poverty ratio in sections of Michigan and Illinois.

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Assignments / Short Form Pieces

Introducing GIS in the History Classroom: Mapping the Legacies of the Industrial Era in Postindustrial America

Camden Burd

Dr. Burd planned this lesson for a 100 level course titled History of American Capitalism. Students built digital maps using ArcGIS Online and later reflected on the benefits of the technology as an educational tool.

A screenshot of a highlighted section of the research essay; students’ annotations comment on the driving question and data collection in a word processor.

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Assignments / Short Form Pieces

Visualizing Essay Elements: A Color-Coding Approach to Teaching First-year Writing

Ruth Li

In this piece, the author shares a strategy for teaching first-year writing in which students color-code and annotate sample rhetorical analysis and research-based essays for elements including citations, quotations, transition words, vocabulary, and structure.