Write/Speak/Code 2017 - Empowering Social Change by Teaching Code

The story of the code cooperative, an open source educational program that teaches former inmates to code as a means to creating social change.

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1. Empowering Social Change by Teaching Code @alexqin #codeforchange #wsc2017conf #codeforchange @alexqin
2. @alexqin engineer & educator #codeforchange @alexqin
3. #codeforchange @alexqin
4. TEACHER
5. #codeforchange @alexqin
6. #codeforchange @alexqin
7. my “investigation” #codeforchange @alexqin
8. 1. CS education is lacking #codeforchange @alexqin
9. 10% NYC schools 1% NYC students #codeforchange @alexqin
10. 2. CS curricula are outdated #codeforchange @alexqin
11. #codeforchange @alexqin
12. 3. skill mastery vs. creativity #codeforchange @alexqin
13. 4. inaccessible #codeforchange @alexqin
14. 5. creators of tech ≠ people who use tech #codeforchange @alexqin
15. < 15% black & latinx #codeforchange @alexqin
16. 26% women #codeforchange @alexqin
17. #codeforchange @alexqin
18. tech education must be accessible to all #codeforchange @alexqin
19. #codeforchange @alexqin
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21. subvert the traditional curriculum #codeforchange @alexqin
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25. 500,000+ unfilled jobs #codeforchange @alexqin
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29. ??? #codeforchange @alexqin
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31. code for social good #codeforchange @alexqin
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35. Blazon #codeforchange @alexqin
36. Blazon #codeforchange @alexqin
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38. GroGreen #codeforchange @alexqin
39. GroGreen #codeforchange @alexqin
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47. bettering their skills & themselves + bettering the world = #codeforchange @alexqin
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49. those who experience problems are best equipped to solve them #codeforchange @alexqin
50. can this be replicated & scaled? #codeforchange @alexqin
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61. students & teachers from diverse backgrounds #codeforchange @alexqin
62. subvert the traditional curriculum #codeforchange @alexqin
63. student led and skill mastery #codeforchange @alexqin
64. accessible to all #codeforchange @alexqin
65. learn to code as means to create social change #codeforchange @alexqin
66. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” #codeforchange @alexqin
67. coming soon GAKK Technology #codeforchange @alexqin
68. #codeforchange @alexqin
69. #codeforchange @alexqin
70. you can make a difference #codeforchange @alexqin
71. start small #codeforchange @alexqin
72. #codeforchange @alexqin
73. what will you accomplish this year? #codeforchange @alexqin
74. @alexqin engineer & educator codecooperative.org gakkoproject.com #codeforchange @alexqin