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Want to Teach Kids to Code? Send 'Em to a 'Hack Jam' - Education - GOOD

Want to Teach Kids to Code? Send 'Em to a 'Hack Jam' - Education - GOOD:


Want to Teach Kids to Code? Send 'Em to a 'Hack Jam'

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We know that if we want kids to be more than consumers of technology, we have to give them the tools they need to build things themselves—and that means teaching them coding. But if most schools aren't actually teaching coding to kids, how are they supposed to learn it? Enter the Hack Jam, a fun way to make digital literacy and hacking accessible, social, and fun.
What's it like to be at a Hack Jam? Last Saturday, three members of GOOD's product team—you’ll see our senior UI designer Doris Yee in the video above—joined up with other designers and developers and headed to