The article interviews Sherry Turkle who is a co-chair of the American Association of Uninversity Women 15-member Commission on Technology, Gender and Teacher Education. She shares her thoughts on issues arising from the commission's report "Tech Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age." The reason the commission was sanctioned was because girls were alarmingly underrepesented in computer science and and technology fields. One reason is girls see careers in computing as isolating. The commission suggests introducing computing across the curriculum and developing tecnology fluency-an ability to be a lifelong learner of new and emerging technolgy.
An interesting note was that schools are not teaching teachers to be educational software critics and that tech-savvy teachers are the most critical of educational software. My daughter just took a computer technology course. The teacher has such a diverse group of students in that class that my daughter who easily picked up the subject was bored because the teacher had to focus on the rudimentary elements. My daghter should have had more of a challenge but I did not know what to ask for since I am not technologically savvy.
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It's overwhelming at times to think about all the things we have to teach our children in a years time. Now, with technology being a major part of society, teachers (at least in the district I work at) aren't getting the kind of instruction they need to teach their students about technology. Not to mention that I feel there is a shortage of computers in our school, so that hinders learning about technology as well. Technology is for everyone though and while the stereotype is probably that technology is just for boys, I see no reason why a girl can't do just as good as job, motivation and determination is the key to success in any field :)
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