| International Standard Book Number |
9780393881943
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| International Standard Book Number |
0393881946
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
371.010973
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
004.071073
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| Personal Name |
Singer, Natasha, author.
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| Title Statement |
Coding kids : Big Tech's battle to remake public schools / Natasha Singer.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Big Tech's battle to remake public schools.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Big Technology's battle to remake public schools.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2026
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| Physical Description |
vi, 340 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-328) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Prologue: The viral video that upended education -- Part I: The new power. "Doing for others is our religion" ; An inhospitable environment for women ; Family capitalism ; The next big thing ; Charting a new course for computer science ; Changing the world ; Microsoft has a problem ; Two men and a driveway ; The coding video goes viral -- Part II: The big tech education playbook. Tapped by Google and Microsoft ; ACM's man in Washington ; The hour of code is coming ; The hour of code is here ; Making computer science count ; The kids can't wait ; The software that ate education ; Learning to code with Google ; Advanced placement Apple ; Hey Alexa, teach me some future-proof skills -- Part III: AI literacy for all. From Tom Edison to Sam Altman ; New visions, new heroes, Power on, Capturing the classroom ; "We need to move faster for AI" ; Decoding kids.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Fourth graders doing Google-branded coding lessons. Amazon schooling seventh graders on its warehouse robots. Advanced Placement computing courses from Microsoft and Apple. Many educators and parents would object if Exxon wrote their school's climate curriculum--or if schools assigned nutrition lessons from Coca-Cola and McDonald's. Yet today, tech giants influence nearly every step of the education supply chain. They provide the classroom devices and software many students use to do assignments. They sell schools on the latest artificial intelligence tools. And increasingly, tech companies are launching their own corporate-branded school curricula, shaping how and what millions of children learn. In recent years, the tech industry has helped spread computer science and AI education in schools at astonishing speed and scale. In Coding Kids, award-winning New York Times journalist Natasha Singer draws on a decade of reporting to reveal how tech titans used the promise of coding (high-paying jobs! change the world!) to weave rosy industry visions of technology into the very fabric of American education, sometimes sidelining crucial ideas like civics and critical thinking. Along the way, Singer takes readers through the powerful playbook Big Tech used to scale coding lessons nationwide. Then she shows readers how tech companies are now applying the same playbook to mainstream their AI tools in schools. A revelatory account of the powerful forces shaping education and our kids' futures, Coding Kids also offers hope. It tells the compelling stories of pioneering teachers fighting for a broader vision of tech education--one that not only teaches kids algorithms and app-making, but also asks students to grapple with the societal impacts of tech giants and their disruptive digital tools" --Publisher marketing.
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| Summary, Etc. |
The inside story of how Big Tech catalyzed, co-opted, and ultimately came to capture computer science and AI education in America.
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| Additional Physical Form Available |
Also issued online.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Public schools United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Technology and children.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Academic-industrial collaboration United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Computer science Study and teaching
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Computer science Study and teaching United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Computer science Study and teaching Moral and ethical aspects United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Public schools Curricula.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Education Moral and ethical aspects United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
EDUCATION / Computers & Technology.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Social conditions 21st century.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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