This sounds like an interesting course. You might want to have the teachers try
some of the following activities:
1. Have teachers assign a computer-assisted project to their students. The
students should be divided into groups of four with two boys and two girls.
Have the teachers observe the roles that each student plays. Who has most of
the computer time? Who does the keyboarding? Who does the decision-making.
This same type of exercise might be done without computers as well. In that
way, the instructor could observe any differences between computer-assisted and
traditional means of having mixed groups approach a problem.
2. Have teachers go through an online clip art program and analyze the
pictures with computers. What roles do men play? What roles do women play?
What messages does this send to students?
3. Another version of exercise 2 would be to go to review software programs for
children and analyze the messages sent regarding gender and roles.
4. You might want the teachers to look at sites such as Riot GRRLS Online
<http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~annaleen/riot.online.html>. This resource
contains sites produced by girls and women advocating technology and culture.
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