Interventions for Promoting Gender Equitable Technology Use in Classrooms

Abstract

“I would go to the computer lab and sort of sit in the corner and try to make thingswork,” Susannah, a middle schooler, said. “None of the boys were very amenableto sitting down with a girl and explaining how things work.”“I never really learned anything,” she said. “It was always sort of a negativeexperience.” (Reported by Dean, 2002)