Starter Pack 1: Intro Courses
(View Complete Item Description)This document gets you started on planning what GenderMag content to incorporate into your intro-level CS/IT/EE/CE/Other Courses.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This document gets you started on planning what GenderMag content to incorporate into your intro-level CS/IT/EE/CE/Other Courses.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This document gets you started on planning what GenderMag content to incorporate into your senior-level CS/IT/EE/CE/Other courses.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This document gets you started on planning what GenderMag content to incorporate into your sophomore-level CS/IT/EE/CE/Other courses.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Customizable GenderMag persona: Abi. Abi provides the strongest lens to find inclusiveness issues that disproportionately affect women users. If you choose to use only one persona and your primary motivation is inclusiveness to women, Abi is probably the best first choice. Abi provides the strongest inclusivity lens out of the 3 personas (Abi, Pat, and Tim).
Material Type: Primary Source
Customizable GenderMag persona: Pat. Pat touches (mostly) middle points in the facet ranges between the Abi and Tim GenderMag personas. If you want a third persona for additional coverage of the facets, Pat is a good third choice after Tim.
Material Type: Primary Source
A textbook chapter on evaluating software. Includes video demonstration of a GenderMag Walkthrough.
Material Type: Reading, Textbook
CITATION: Gender-Inclusiveness Personas vs. Stereotyping: Can We Have it Both Ways? Charles Hill, Maren Haag, Alannah Oleson, Chris Mendez, Nicola Marsden, Anita Sarma, Margaret Burnett, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'17), May 2017, pp. 6658-6671. ABSTRACT: Personas often aim to improve product designers' ability to "see through the eyes of" target users through the empathy personas can inspire - but personas are also known to promote stereotyping. This tension can be particularly problematic when personas (who, of course as "people" have genders) are used to promote gender inclusiveness - because reinforcing stereotypical perceptions can run counter to gender inclusiveness. In this paper we explicitly investigate this tension through a new approach to personas: one that includes multiple photos (of males and females) for a single persona. We compared this approach to an identical persona with only one photo using a controlled laboratory study and an eye-tracking study. Our goal was to answer the following question: is it possible for personas to encourage product designers to engage with personas while at the same avoiding promoting gender stereotyping? Our results are encouraging about the use of personas with multiple pictures as a way to expand participants' consideration of multiple genders without reducing their engagement with the persona. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f1aJhWGfLM
Material Type: Primary Source
Although CS Education researchers and practitioners have found ways to improve CS classroom inclusivity, few researchers have considered inclusivity of online CS education. We are interested in two such improvements in online CS education- besides being inclusive to each other, online CS students also need to be able to create inclusive technology.
Material Type: Primary Source
Research paper about gender-inclusivity issues found in online CS courses---an an automated tool (AID/Courseware) for detecting those issues.
Material Type: Primary Source
Active learning lecture involving identifying cognitive styles for technology usage. Includes team cognitive styles discussion. LAST UPDATE: Changed cover image
Material Type: Lecture
List of quiz questions for the Cognitive Style Heuristics reading: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/reading-cognitive-style-heuristics
Material Type: Assessment
A list of example test questions, with various types of questions.
Material Type: Assessment
A self-study online course with modules about how to do and teach GenderMag. Available any time. Multiple certificates available (free). Target audience = educators, developers, engineers, students, anyone interested in GenderMag
Material Type: Full Course
What cognitive styles do you use to interact with technology? PRE-REQ: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/87536
Material Type: Activity/Lab
What cognitive styles do we use to interact with technology? The GenderMag Project has identified five cognitive facets we bring to our use of technology.
Material Type: Lesson, Reading, Unit of Study
Reflection assignment about cognitive styles used to interact with technology. Includes reflection questions about relating to the GenderMag personas.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment
What are your facet values when using software? What's one situation when your facet values might change? How did identifying your facet values affect your understanding of how you use software?
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Example of how instructors can share their cognitive styles with their class, with template.
Material Type: Reading
A complete homework assignment in which students (1) create a paper prototype of a software design, (2) reflect on their GenderMag cognitive styles, (3) evaluate their prototype using heuristics based on GenderMag cognitive styles, and (4) revise their prototype.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
Chapter about cognitive styles and the Cognitive Style Heuristics (from the GenderMag Project). From "Handbook of Software Engineering": https://www.oercommons.org/courses/handbook-of-software-engineering-methods
Material Type: Textbook