Posts tagged ‘education’

Ask a Geek Feminist: I’ve been scrambling ever since I figured out that I’ve likely got a scientist on my hands. Turns out that Women in Science is THING!

Last week APM’s radio program, Marketplace, did a story with Freakonomics about the patent gap between men and women. Women are responsible for only about 7.5% of patents in the US. That doesn’t surprise me. ...

What’s working to help me learn to program? Gamification, with some caveats…

Women in genre fiction, a non-physicist at CERN, open journal access as a feminist issue, and more!

Here’s some talented young women in science showing off their lego trophies: Our judges said the unifying elements of all three young women were their intellectual curiosity, their tenaciousness and their ambition to use science ...

I just ran across Karen Rustad’s “How to teach programming: shy, practical people edition.” She cared more about making practical things than about what she perceived as “coding,” so her early technical life centered on ...

This is a question that was posed to the Ada Initiative. It’s a bit out of scope for us right now (we’re focussed on fundraising), so I told Robin Whitney, who posed it, that I’d ...