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GDI News Online
The Technology
Issue
Winter 2002 Issue # 1
55 Chapel St. Newton MA, 02458
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Welcome
Welcome to GDI News Online, the newsletter of Education
Development Center's Gender & Diversities Institute. Every
issue will highlight some aspect of GDI's work and links
to other sites and projects globally.
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Research
Learning Online
GEMS may be one of the first to look comprehensively at the relationships
between the design and structure of online courses, The role of the
facilitator, the ways in which individuals interact and learn on line,
and the outcomes of that experience. This national collaborative will
be joined by an internal advisory group from EDC and a national advisory
group including representatives from Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon,
the Concord Consortium, and Washington State University. Find out
more about GEMS here.
Gender, Race, and
the Internet Forum
If gender and diverisites were truly valued, what would the Internet
look like? This global question guided the discussion among a group
of experts in online learning as they met in October at the Gender
and Diversities Institute. To read more, click
here.
Crossing the Digital Divide
to Digital Economic Opportunity
During the last year, GDI staff and colleagues within EDC's Center for Education,
Employment, and Community have helped focus the national discussion on opening up
the IT pipeline to a wider array of workers. Read more
about the National Policy Association's (NPA) national fact-finding study.
Youth and Learning
Increasing computer
confidence and competence for high school girls
Over the past two years, the Charlestown Chinese Girls Project has
developed the computer skills, self-esteem, and self-confidence of
female Chinese students in one Boston high school. For more information
click here.
Attracting and Retaining
Teens in ICT Careers
Information technology careers can be exciting for teens, and especially
for girls. In one project, girls ranked IT careers as a first choice,
followed by doctor and teacher. This project, a partnership of EDC,
ITAA, and the National Alliance of Business is designing a model and
career cluster curricular framework that gets students excited about
ICT. To learn more click here.
ScienceQuest
ScienceQuest, an after-school program with a difference, brings
together informal science and technology to local community technology
centers.
For more information click here.
America Connects
American Connects Consortium (ACC) at Education Development Center
was established to build the organizational and technical capacity
of community technology centers, so they could evolve into a network
serving disadvantaged members of the community. Interested? Read
more about ACC here.
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Online Courses
Gender and Diversities Institute courses are designed to reflect equitable
instruction and to engage learners in critical examination of key
education issues. Each engages participants in reflection about gender
and diversities and about important issues and provides concrete activities
and applications that make theory and research understandable and
practical.
Engaging Girls in
Math
Math and science are useful skills in approaching life's experiences
regardless of whether they lead to careers in this field or not.
It is such issues of inequity that the WEEA Equity Resource Center
has worked for many years to address. Read more.
Raising and Educating
Boys: Developing Connections in a Changing World
Have you ever wondered how you can help make school more rewarding
for boys, thought about how caring and high expectations can enhance
boys' educational experiences, worried about the challenges that
boys of color face daily? "Raising and Educating Boys",
explores these issues among many others.To find out more about this
course and how you can participate in the next offering of this
course click here.
Infusing Equity into
Policy and Practice: A Course for Equity Specialists
Building on field-initiated requests, this online course uses
Title IX to provide educational equity specialists with a legal
framework for addressing equity in the educational field as well
as ways of analyzing their particular setting and identifying allies
for working in this area. Equity specialists, such as Title IX coordinators,
gender equity specialists or equal opportunity officers in schools
will find this a very useful course. For more information, go here.
New Projects
Gender and Science
Digital Library Project
The Gender and Science Digital Library (GDSL), a collaborative effort
between the Gender and Diversities Institute at EDC and the Eisenhower
National Clearinghouse (ENC) at Ohio State University, seeks to
create a high-quality, interactive library of K-12 gender and science
resources. To read more about this project go
here.
The YouthLearn Initiative
at EDC: Inspiring Young Minds Through Technology-Enriched Learning
The YouthLearn Initiative at EDC offers youth development professionals
and educators comprehensive services and resources for using technology
to create exciting learning environments. Created by the Morino Institute
and now led by the Center for Education, Employment, and Community
at EDC, YouthLearn provides user-friendly tools to help organizational
leaders and staff start or strengthen both after-school and in-school
programs. Offerings include The YouthLearn Guide, a hands-on manual
with lessons, worksheets, and sample activities; the YouthLearn online
community, featuring a web site and discussion list; an information-rich
electronic newsletter; and opportunities for training and partnerships.
To learn more click here.
Conferences and Events
Interested in learning more about technology? Do you want to present
your work? Click here for a sampling of
upcoming conferences related to gender/diversities and technology
and the sciences. They and others are posted on our website. If
you would like to list your conference on our site, please send
this information to us by clicking here.
Resources
This is a list of websites and publications
that you may find useful in learning more about the issues presented
in this edition of GDI Online News. If you would like to suggest
some resources on our site, please send this information to us by
clicking here.
Next Issue: Raising and Educating
Boys
The
spring issue of GDI News Online will explore the dynamic
of gender, ethnicity, and disability, and the construction
of masculinity in the lives of different groups of boys
and men. We will examine the role that educators in both
formal and informal settings can play in fostering healthy
development and academic performance. If you have projects,
resources, or research that addresses this issue from
a gender-healthy perspective, please let us know so that
we can share this information with our readers. We especially
encourage submissions that address the needs of boys and
men of color or from other under-represented groups.
Click
here to submit information or send it to us via fax:
617-332-4318 or mail: Gender & Diversities Institute at EDC, c/o
Oreoluwa Somolu
55 Chapel Street,
Newton, MA USA 02458.
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