I can definitely tell that it isn't boredom.  For girls, IMO it's the
pedagogy.  In my Logo classes, I've asked each student to choose a project
study out of Yehuda Katz's "Recursive Graphic Designs" and "Logo Art
Gallery".  Some designs end up being  purely "for girls" and some are "for
boys". http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/2276/

I've ask Yehuda who made the graphics.  Men made the ones boys chose
exclusively and Olga Tuzova made the ones the girls preferred overall.  Both
groups pursued the study of their individually chosen objects of study with
equal zeal.

What does this indicate?

:-)  edwin




-----Original Message-----
From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of
Brent.Pinkney at reuters.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:11 AM
To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Subject: Re: Computers in school



On 06/08/2001 18:43:13 squeak-dev-admin wrote:
> to learn to program. The recent American Association of University
> Women report pointed out that women (and many others, I'll bet) are
> drawn away from IT because we make CS classes as boring as possible.
>
>From inference and by observation of the demographics of every programming
lab I have ever seen, how does this
statement explain why causcasian, indian, oriental males do not reject CS
majors if boredom is the only issue.

Education is not supposed to be a rock concert.

Sheesh....







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