Girls learning computer science principles with after school games

Carolee Stewart-Gardiner; Gail Carmichael; Elisabeth Gee; Lorri Hopping

doi:10.1145/2807565.2807716

Girls learning computer science principles with after school games

Carolee Stewart-Gardiner, Gail Carmichael, Elisabeth Gee, Lorri Hopping

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Abstract

Encouraging middle school girls to become interested in Computer Science has been a concern in the Computer Science Education community for many years. Although many girls do play digital games[4], this has not led to further interest in computer science. We believe this is caused by many factors. We are researching the effect of teaching (non-programming) computer science principles embedded in after school games, to encourage girls to study computer science in their future. We maintain that the experience of learning these principles will increase their confidence that they can enjoy learning more about computer science. This on-going NSF sponsored AISL research project is described for discussion.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	GenderIT 2015 Advancing Diversity - Conference Proceedings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	62-63
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450335966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2807565.2807716
State	Published - Apr 24 2015
Event	3rd Conference on Advancing Diversity, GenderIT 2015 - Philadelphia, United States Duration: Apr 24 2015 → Apr 25 2015

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	24-25-April-2015

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Other	3rd Conference on Advancing Diversity, GenderIT 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Philadelphia
Period	4/24/15 → 4/25/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Girls learning computer science principles with after school games. / Stewart-Gardiner, Carolee; Carmichael, Gail; Gee, Elisabeth et al.
GenderIT 2015 Advancing Diversity - Conference Proceedings. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 62-63 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 24-25-April-2015).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Stewart-Gardiner, C, Carmichael, G, Gee, E & Hopping, L 2015, Girls learning computer science principles with after school games. in GenderIT 2015 Advancing Diversity - Conference Proceedings. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 24-25-April-2015, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 62-63, 3rd Conference on Advancing Diversity, GenderIT 2015, Philadelphia, United States, 4/24/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2807565.2807716

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