Go Girl!
Last term, I functioned as supervisor for a Master thesis project on how to make girls use the computer more in after-school institutions [DK: klubber og fritidshjem]. The student doing the Masters, Camilla, came up with a workshop concept meant to help girls approx age 10-13 tell personal, digital stories on the pc via "simple" programs such as paint, word and powerpoint. She did several workshops and her concept turned out to be a huge succes, the girls she taught made some pretty impressive stories, considering the short time they had to learn to use the tools. Following the completition of her Master's, she has now been interviewed for one of the biggest Danish journals on Children and Pedagogy. Here is the article about her project: Pigepower på PC (In Danish. UK: Girlpower on PC). She has also been asked to participate in a research project for Lego, together with Carsten Jessen, Associate Professor at the Danish University of Pedagogics (DPU). So a real succes story, I'm really proud of her!
# posted by Lisbeth at: 13:07