Where are the girls?
Posted by nancyscofield on 24th October 2006
I just finished viewing the video for Chris Kaminski’s presentation for the K12 Online Conference. In it, he had students from his web design class speak their thoughts about education and technology. They had some very interesting things to say.
One thing stuck out in my mind, however. Where are the girls? Out of a dozen or students who spoke on his video, only one (the last one) was a girl.
Is that a trend in most high school technology classes (electives?) Is it just this particular class, or is there truly a gender imbalance in these classes? Our high school has a video class, and both of my children are in it. There are about 12-14 students, and my daughter is the only girl. I’m so glad that they have this class and that they are learning to film, edit video, and produce real-world products (filming games for our local cable channel, writing and producing a documentary on a former student, etc.) It’s an incredible opportunity, and as a parent, I’m thrilled that my daughter is taking it this year along with my son. But even she has made a comment on their class blog that there need to be more girls! What can we do to encourage that?
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