New research explores how access to technology helps put girls on par with boys.
Source:The New York Times
New research explores how access to technology helps put girls on par with boys.
Source:The New York Times
Joi Ito argues that education should better accommodate neurodiversity.
Source: WIRED
Working class individuals are more empathic, charitable, and fatalistic compared to middle and upper class individuals. “research suggests that the culture of universities may not be designed with the working classes in mind.” Original Study
Source: (Alex Framer) Research Digest
In ‘Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet’ Claire L. Evans documents the often untold contributions of women to computing and digital culture.
Source: The New Republic
The Net Inclusion 2018 Keynote & Plenary from the National Digital Inclusion Alliance will be livecast at 3:15pm Eastern time on Wednesday, April 18th 2018: https://www.digitalinclusion.org/keynote2018/
Source: National Digital Inclusion Alliance
Check out this video from UMASS about different ways that software lacks fairness.
“With the job market in flux due to technological advances, students will need foundational skills as well as the four C’s: critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity”
Source: Education Dive
An upcoming website by True Colors Fund intended to help homeless youth in Washington, D.C., connect to available support services was presented at the United States Census Bureau on Nov. 29.
Source: Street Sense Media
Source: Motherboard
“Despite a growing sense of unease at the uncertainties of modern society—from turbulent political events to widening income inequality—youth around the world continue to be very optimistic, a large global survey concludes.”
Source: Big Think