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Code for What?: Computer Science for Storytelling and Social Justice
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Coding for a purpose: helping young people combine journalism, data, design, and code to make media that makes a difference.Educators are urged to teach “code for all”—to make a specialized field accessible for students usually excluded from it. In Code for What? Clifford Lee and Elisabeth Soep instead ask the question, “code for what?” What if coding were a justice-driven medium for storytelling rather than a narrow technical skill? What if “democratizing” computer science went beyond the usual one-off workshop and empowered youth to create digital products for social impact? Lee and Soep answer these questions with stories of a diverse group of young people in Oakland, California, who combine journalism, data, design, and code to create media that make a difference. These teenage and young adult producers created interactive projects that explored gendered and racialized dress code policies in schools; designed tools for LBGTQ+ youth experiencing discrimination; investigated facial recognition software and what can be done about it; and developed a mobile app to promote mental health through self-awareness and outreach for support, and more, for distribution to audiences that could reach into the millions. Working with educators and media professionals at YR Media, an award-winning organization that helps young people from underserved communities build skills in media, journalism, and the arts, these teens found their own vibrant answers to “why code?” They code for insight, connection and community, accountability, creative expression, joy, and hope.
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| Weight | 0.46 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.75 × 14.15 × 20.99 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | USA |
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| Pages | 320 |
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| Year Published | 2023-1-10 |
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| ISBN 10 | 0262047454 |
| About The Author | Clifford Lee is Professor and Director of Educators for Liberation, Justice, and Joy Teacher Education program at Mills College at Northeastern University and Scholar-in-Residence at YR Media. Elisabeth Soep is Special Projects Producer and Senior Scholar-in-Residence at YR Media. Her work has been featured in major media including NPR, the New York Times, National Geographic, and Teen Vogue. She is the author of Participatory Politics (MIT Press). |
| Other text | “Code for What? presents authentic and inspirational visions of young people making information technology their own, not for some imagined future, but right now—to enrich their lives and the lives of those around them.”—Hal Abelson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT “Code for What? represents a paradigm shift from teaching coding to helping young people understand code as a resource for social change and personal transformation. The authors’ gift for storytelling brings this text to life for readers.”—Henry Jenkins, co-author of By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activists “A beautiful, thought-provoking book about reimagining education in our tech-saturated world. The authors reveal the brilliance of diverse youth and what happens when they are centered in learning. Educators across all subjects should read this book!”—Jane Margolis, Senior Research UCLA CS Equity Project; co-author of Power On! and Stuck in the Shallow End“Throw out all of your prior beliefs about computer science education. Code for What? is nothing less than a transformational new vision, offering a blueprint focused on liberation, community, and joy.”—Antero Garcia, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education at Stanford University; author of Good Reception: Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School |
| Table Of Content | Foreword ixChris Emdin1 Introduction 12 A Framework: Critical Computational Expression 373 We Code for Insight 534 We Code for Connection and Community 775 We Code for Accountability 1156 We Code for Creative Expression 1517 We Code for Joy and Hope 1838 Tensions and Extensions 205Epilogue: So You've Read Code for What? Now What? 247Kyra KylesAcknowledgments 255Notes 267Index 293 |
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