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?
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?
What cognitive styles do you use to interact with technology? PRE-REQ: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/87536 LAST UPDATE: Changed title
Reflection assignment about cognitive styles used to interact with technology. Includes reflection questions about relating to the GenderMag personas.
Heuristic evaluation peer activity using GenderMag Cognitive Style Heuristics.
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.
To avoid "gender-inclusiveness bugs" in technology
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.
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.
Extra credit assignment about the Cognitive Style Heuristics reading: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/reading-cognitive-style-heuristics
Paper about how to create bias-detection methods (e.g., GenderMag)
Handy quick-reference summarizing the three GenderMag personas.
Software engineering is the art and science of using different methods to efficiently create extensible, sustainable programs that solve problems people care about.
I won’t tell you how to be a software engineer; You’ll learn that over time by doing it. Instead, this book is about software engineering methods: Ways people achieve specific objectives in software engineering—that can save your project. My hope is that, after reading this book (or parts of it), you’ll feel better equipped for software engineering.
One-page definitions sheet.
Two-page summary of the GenderMag walkthrough method.
Research paper about gender-inclusivity issues found in online CS courses---an an automated tool (AID/Courseware) for detecting those issues.
A reading about the GenderMag Cognitive Style Heuristics (CSH) with embedded examples and quizzes.
Example of how instructional team can share their own cognitive styles with students. Coaches students on how to share their cognitive styles. Shows diversity within instructional team. Could be incorporated into lecture slides.
What cognitive styles do you use to interact with technology? PRE-REQ: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/87536
List of quiz questions for the Cognitive Style Heuristics reading: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/reading-cognitive-style-heuristics