[Techtalk] Preaching to the choir
Andrea Landaker
qirien at icecavern.net
Sun Jan 12 20:53:33 EST 2003
> Maybe some here would be inteersted. New York Times Article on computing
> and "girls'.
> You need to go through a free sign-process
Bleh, one of the reasons I think there's not more young women interested in
computers is articles like this! C'mon, who wants to hear things like,
"[Girls] just don't understand how they work." Is that encouraging? No!
Let's make articles like these a little more positive -- more women are in
computer science now than there were 10 years ago.
At least the article did give some positive examples, and I think it's great
that schools are trying different approaches to interest a wider variety of
people in computer science. There are definitely better ways to teach it
than the generic lecture-and-assignment.
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Andrea Landaker
qirien at icecavern.net
http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/
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