Why girls should be encouraged to tinker. Strong Girls: Teach Your Girls To Tinker. Home > Teach Your Girls To Tinker Girls now surpass boys in nearly every measure of academic success.Yet, even as girls open new gender gaps by outpacing their male peers in most subjects, men still receive roughly 77 percent of the bachelor’s degrees awarded in engineering and 85 percent of those in computer science. Why aren’t girls choosing to enter these critical fields of the future? A Study reviewed in Education Week (November 11,2009) entitled "Teaching Girls To Tinker" indicates that the number of females choosing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics is low because girls are not encouraged to "tinker". This article states that boys see computers as toys interesting in their own right, while girls see them as tools for accomplishing tasks. By approaching computers and other mechanical devices as toys, children learn how they function from the inside out.
When tinkering with programming, they develop an intuitive understanding of how computers work. We need a root cause analysis of the gender in IT problem | Adventures in Corporate Education. The statistics speak for themselves. 24% of professional IT jobs are held by women, even though 57% of professional jobs are held by womenIn 2008, 56% of all AP test-takers were female, 51% who took the calculus AP test were female, but only 19% of the Computer Science test takers were female.In 2008, 57% of people graduating with a Bachelor’s degree were women, but women only made up 18% of the Computer and Info Science degrees and only twelve percent of the Computer Science degrees.In 2008, 28% of the Computer Scientists were women. 3% of that number were African American, 3% were Asian, 1% were Hispanic.
They didn’t even bother to count the American Indian women who are computer scientists. These statistics are striking. They are important, because as we move to a world where all of our information is up in the cloud, wouldn’t it be nice to know that the people creating and managing either the public or a private cloud come from diverse backgrounds? My Experience What do I plan to do? TAFE NSW Womens Support Unit blog. Danah Boyd. Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs: Women and Children Last: The Discursive Construction of Weblogs.
Susan C. Herring, Inna Kouper, Lois Ann Scheidt, and Elijah L. Wright, Indiana University at Bloomington An Apparent Paradox Weblogs (“blogs”), frequently modified webpages containing individual entries displayed in reverse chronological sequence, are the latest mode of computer-mediated communication (CMC) to attain widespread popularity. As with other new CMC technologies, blogs have been hailed as democratizing—any literate person can self-publish content in a blog, and reach an audience of potentially millions, for little or no cost.
Moreover, the success of individual blogs in attracting readers and influencing opinion depends less on their formal credentials than on the quality of their ideas and their writing (what Winer, 2003, calls their "voice"). Fifteen years ago, a similar claim was advanced with respect to Internet discussion forums and chat rooms. What, then, of weblogs? The remainder of the essay is organized as follows. Gender and Age of Blog Authors Table 1. Table 2.