At the Edge of the Internet: Teaching Coding and Sustainability to Himalayan Girls

Autor/inn/en	Garrett, Frances; Price, Matt; Strazds, Laila; Walker, Dawn
Titel	At the Edge of the Internet: Teaching Coding and Sustainability to Himalayan Girls
Quelle	In: Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 45 (2019) 3, (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1499-6677
Schlagwörter	Coding; Teaching Methods; Females; Sustainability; Program Development; Program Implementation; Computer Science Education; Workshops; Curriculum Development; Internet; Historic Sites; Womens Education; Skill Development; Poverty; Geographic Regions; Decision Making; Gender Differences; Foreign Countries; Web Sites; Single Sex Schools; Course Descriptions; International Cooperation; Undergraduate Students; India; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Codierung; Programmierung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Weibliches Geschlecht; Nachhaltigkeit; Programmplanung; Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Historische Stätte; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Armut; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ausland; Web-Design; Single-sex schools; Single-sex classes; Single sex classes; Getrenntgeschlechtliche Erziehung; Schule; Kursstrukturplan; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Indien; Kanada
Abstract	This report introduces a two-week workshop on web coding and environmental sustainability at a school for girls in Northeastern India. Our discussion of this teaching project reviews issues that shaped the project's development, outlines resources required for implementation, and summarizes the workshop's curriculum. High-speed Internet will soon arrive in the region of this recently recognized UNESCO World Heritage Site. We believe that the training of girls in particular could help redistribute power and resources in regions where women are often poorer, less educated, and excluded from decision-making in institutional and public contexts. Relatively few code-teaching projects have grappled with the difficulty of working in offline environments at the "edge of the Internet," and yet moving skills and knowledge into these regions before the Internet becomes widely accessible might help mitigate some of the web's worst impacts on equity and justice. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01