Hi, everyone

We had a great talk today with Dr. Cohoon.

Dr. Cohoon shared with us her findings on issues of gender and technology, and more specifically her researches on what computer science and computer engineering department could do to attract, retain and advance women’s representation. I feel that in her researches, there are many implications for our domain of Instructional Technology, for example

1. As far as teaching teachers to use technology in classroom, is there any difference between male teachers and female teachers? Are female teachers more afraid of learning how to using technology? Is there stereotyping existing in teacher’s training?

2. If the population of technology creators keeps severely gender imbalanced, what kind of impact will this situation bring to the domain of Instructional Technology, since Instructional Technology is somewhat a bridge of integrating technology and education?

Any ideas and thoughts are welcomed! Thank you all in advance for participating!

Jie