On Girls, Boys, and IT Careers
Google engEDU
59 min – Apr 6, 2006
Google TechTalks
April 06, 2006
Dr. Cornelia Brunner
Associate Director, Center for Children & Technology Education Development Center
Dr. Brunner has been involved in the research, production, and teaching of educational technology in a variety of subject areas for thirty years. In addition to conducting research projects about the relationship between learning, teaching, and technology, she has designed and implemented educational materials incorporating technologies to support inquiry-based learning and teaching in science, social studies, media literacy, and the arts.
ABSTRACT
Research over the past two decades has pointed to a strong, persistent, gendered difference in technological desire – in what we want from, expect of, hope for and fear about technology. These differences may be at the heart of current lack of interest in the IT professions among young women. The purpose of this talk to to illustrate some of these differences and to discuss ways in which we might invite young women who are not comfortable with the dominant discourse about technology into the IT professions by describing processes and opportunities in a language that speaks to a more “feminine†technological imagination.
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