Exploring the use of interactive narratives to engage inner-city girls in computational activities

S. Erete, Nichole Pinkard, C. K. Martin, Jim Sandherr
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The decline in the number of women in computer science and engineering courses is well documented at each level of advancement, and disparities are greater when considering minority women. Decisions about participation are often made early and have been linked to factors such as prior experience, interest, and sense of fit with community. To address these issues we developed Digital Youth Divas, a program for inner-city middle school girls interested in fashion and design to develop computational fluencies through projects tied to narrative stories. The Digital Youth Divas program intentionally fosters supportive communities and perceptions of girls and women as strong and successful as they engage in STEM learning and careers. Narratives have been identified as a way to engage youth in problem solving tasks, connect to real-world situations, and motivate positive STEM-identities. In this paper, we discuss our use of narrative stories in the Digital Youth Divas program to initiate situational interest—the first phase of Hidi and Renninger's four-phase model of interest development—and we share preliminary results of participants' learning and their interpretation of and reaction to the narrative stories.
探索互动叙事的使用,让城市女孩参与计算活动
计算机科学和工程课程中女性人数的下降在每个晋升级别都有充分的记录,当考虑到少数族裔女性时,差距就更大了。关于参与的决定通常很早就做出了,并且与之前的经验、兴趣和与社区的契合感等因素有关。为了解决这些问题,我们开发了“数字青年天后”(Digital Youth Divas),这是一个针对对时尚和设计感兴趣的市中心中学女生的项目,通过与叙事故事相关的项目来提高计算能力。数字青年天后计划有意培养支持性社区,并让女孩和妇女在STEM学习和职业生涯中同样强大和成功。叙事被认为是一种让年轻人参与解决问题的任务,与现实世界的情况联系起来,并激发积极的stem认同的方式。在本文中,我们讨论了我们在数字青年女主角项目中使用叙事故事来激发情境兴趣——这是Hidi和Renninger的四阶段兴趣发展模型的第一阶段——我们分享了参与者学习的初步结果以及他们对叙事故事的解释和反应。
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