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SIGCSE
2010
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
2010
ACM
A significant focus in the United States recently has been to increase engagement and interest in STEM curricula, particularly among girls and underrepresented minorities [3]. In ...
VL
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
Traditional approaches to teaching computer science are often unsuccessful in attracting girls into the discipline. Our hypothesis is that presenting computer programming as a mea...
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2003
ACM
During summer 2002, we ran a workshop module for a group of 28 eighth-grade girls. Our aim was ambitious: to introduce these students, ages 12 and 13, to computer science by focus...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
We describe Storytelling Alice, a programming environment that introduces middle school girls to computer programming as a means to the end of creating 3D animated stories. Storyt...
ACMDIS
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2000
ACM
During the past five years, our research group worked with a group of public school teachers to define, develop, and assess network-based support for collaborative learning in mid...