{"id":4533,"date":"2014-09-15T09:07:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T15:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2014-09-21T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T20:58:57","slug":"computings-narrow-focus-may-hinder-womens-participation-context-matters-computing-education-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/09\/15\/computings-narrow-focus-may-hinder-womens-participation-context-matters-computing-education-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing\u2019s Narrow Focus May Hinder Women\u2019s Participation: Context matters | Computing Education Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>A big part of what attracted me to computer science was what I could do with what I was learning. That, and the fact that programming is largely about lists, organizing, and puzzles &#8211; all things that women often find appealing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of course, I buy into the argument here about the <a title=\"Teaching CS in Schools with Meaning: Contexts and problems come first\" href=\"http:\/\/computinged.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/07\/teaching-cs-in-schools-with-meaning-contexts-and-problems-come-first\/\">importance of context<\/a>. Beyond that,\u00a0this article does a nice job of tying context\u00a0to success of women in computing (with quotes both from Barbara Ericson and <a title=\"Computing ed researcher fired from NSF over questions about her role as 1980s activist\" href=\"http:\/\/computinged.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/11\/computing-ed-researcher-fired-from-nsf-over-questions-about-her-role-as-1980s-activist\/\">Valerie Barr, formerly at NSF<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoys fall in love with computers as machines; girls see them as tools to do something else,\u201d said Barbara Ericson, a senior research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology who tracks the AP exam. \u201cThen girls think, \u2018maybe I don\u2019t belong because I don\u2019t love them like the boys do.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/computinged.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/15\/computings-narrow-focus-may-hinder-womens-participation-context-matters\/\">Computing\u2019s Narrow Focus May Hinder Women\u2019s Participation: Context matters | Computing Education Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4533'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4533);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4533);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4533);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A big part of what attracted me to computer science was what I could do with what I was learning. That, and the fact that programming is largely about lists, organizing, and puzzles &#8211; all things that women often find &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/09\/15\/computings-narrow-focus-may-hinder-womens-participation-context-matters-computing-education-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Computing\u2019s Narrow Focus May Hinder Women\u2019s Participation: Context matters | Computing Education Blog http:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1b7","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[353,81],"tags":[287,395,355],"class_list":["post-4533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-2","category-information-technology","tag-cs-education","tag-information-technology","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1b7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2211,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/05\/29\/visual-ability-predicts-a-computer-science-career-why-and-can-we-use-that-to-improve-learning-computing-education-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":4533,"position":0},"title":"Visual ability predicts a computer science career: Why? 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