(This message is in respond to Dialogue with the Export on Technology and
Equity, July 16-20, 2001. Mrs. Bauman is responding to an Opening statement
by Cornelia Brunner. If you would like to review this opening statement
here is the URL connection
http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/edequity/hypermail/2054.html)
I do not disagree. As coordinator for guidance at a large (almost 4000
student) high school, I have experienced the issue as less gender
specific. Certainly more young women must be motivated to explore
technology and what it offers, and more young men must be motivated to
explore how technology can facilitate connections. My experience is
that we have to do a better job of getting to know students as
individuals or given the magnitude of that task, perhaps we can simply
make ourselves aware of the fact that humans have different ways of
being and seeing. Technology has many applications. That I am only
able to turn my computer on and off does not mean that I cannot imagine
or design its effective use. Conversely, that I can make it do anything
I want does not mean that I will make it do what is needed when it is
needed.
Raquel Bauman
<raquelbauman@lhs.lowell.k12.ma.us>
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