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I absolutely agree that girls are involved equally in computing ,because they have realized the importance of it in every day life .Of course they have different interest than the boys.The girls are interested in fashion so it would be motivating for them to do a research on the most trendy clothes of this year and to present it in the form of a video

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I agree with the views presented. I think a good strategy is to engage girls in computing science is to solve a problem using LEGO: create a program to move a car via bluetooth of their phones.

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I absolutely agree with all the proposals from the video.

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I agree with the allegations in the videos and I have to admit that I have not so far in such a serious way registered. In the years in which are my students interested in computer activities is equal.

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In my classes they all wanted to use Lego WeDo. Girls and boys. Maybe it depends on age? Maybe the older the more resistance?

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Yes, I agree with the videos...From experiences I had so I also note that girls are more motivated than their peers in coding male. Especially girls tend to focus and apply more and also are more persevering. The peer teaching is a good strategy to motivate pupils to learn as it promotes the horizontal flow of information and knowledge.

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Nowadays i think these is changing and girls are brave to get in computer science waters. I my classrom i have more boys than girls, but in afterclass acivitis, girls like to hang out in the computer classrom more than at the gym.

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I agree with the views presented in the video. Nowadays I think it is starting to change and girls are more interested in coding. It should also be noted that girls are usually better than boys at coding.

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Although today we consider girls and boys to be equal, certain stereotypes seem to persist. One of them declares that boys are better in STEM subjects and of
course computer gaming than girls. Surely this stereotype has to change and things have to be done in classroom as well. Introducing computing in a meaningful way for every student, taking into account their interests and their level of knowledge will help a lot to overcome this barrier for girls (and boys) to succeed.

So in my class I try to differentiate my lessons in order to engage each and every student in a meaningful for her or him way and I offer extra help to those needing it.

In this course I've learnt about the European campaign “Science: It’s a girl thing” and I’m going to find out how my students and I can participate Below you can see the
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I remember when I was around 12-13 a group of kids in my class, me included (the mathematicians basically) started coding and programming.Girls were actually better than the boys. Nowadays, after introducing Scratch to my classes, girls tried it, boys not yet. But I do think girls think it's too complicated, but this can be changed by explaining things better, so girls can see it's really a lot easier and fun.

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In the first presentation, we can discover that only 14.5% of engineers are girls. The reason seems to be the fact that they don`t think they are good enough; they consider that computer science is boring and also, they think engineers are not cool. I consider most of these stereotypes and lack of knowledge about computer science. The first strategy involves teaching highschool girls to code; to understand that computer science is fun and useful and also, mentoring/guiding them. I like this idea, because teenagers need models, so, having powerful and positive models could help them choose a career in computer science.

The second video underlines the idea of role - models too, because it is important for girls (and for primary school girls too) to understand that computing shouldn`t be a man dominated area. Another great idea is the fact that the subject you teach should be attractive to all students (beyond gender), should be approachable/accesible for all of them! Also, I like the idea that we should find topics that are meaningful for the whole class (from sports to fashion, to environmental issues and so on), because otherwise, we could loose some students` interest. We have to make content and relevance for them. In this context, coding is just a tool, which can help my students achieve what is relevant for them. I really like this approach.

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IN MY SCHOOL WE HAVE JOIN SOME PROGRAM LIKE PINK CLOUD AND GIRL CODE IT BETTER

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In my class both girls and students are interested in computing.  They l like coding. I think, the girls  are better creative than boys.

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Engaging girls into computing and other stem fields is a key topic even though the European Comission have launched a european campaign to engage girl into sciencie and technology: Science: It's a girl thing! I agree with the proposed ways to involved girls, but I highlight the mentorship and . It´s very important to show students some particular cases of leading women in the fields of computing, sciencies and engineering to awakening vocations and the interest in these areas.

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I try to design lesson plans that have such context that would engage both boys and girls. I see girls having real fun by doing coding activities.

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In my classes I see this problem. Girls are less involved in ICT problems and I think that could be a great idea if girls could teach code to other girls. Boys are often more competitive and generally want to reach a solution as soon as possible. On the contrary girls are thoughtful and need more time to produce a solution

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Now in our society both girls and students are interested in ICT. They like coding. Girls probably are more creative

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In fact, calling girls with other brilliant girl engineers is a good thing to do, because girls would be attracted to them.

Besides that doing relevant and significant work for their living contexts could help on this need of shift.

In my classroom, more than 80% aren't girls, because I teach in vocational education, but even that girls could be more interest in coding than boys, as I found in last Hour of Code activity.

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In my particular case, I cannot notice any difference with my primary school students. Both boys and girls are eager to use the computers and work with technological tools to create different products.

I do notice that, in general, girls take more time to make their products look nicer and colourful. They pay an extra attention to aesthetics, whereas boys pay more attention to the content in itself or the resolution of the activity.

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My students are girls and they liked cooding activities so much

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I organized a chat session in the space of one of our eTwinning project Girls in ICT.

Students presented themselves ,they comunnicated with each other.

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In my school there is no differece in useing ICT and computers but when IT comes to choosing programming I got 2 girls to 8 boys. I was quite surprised. These two are enjoying the programming as much as the boys so maybe I should try to offer a special girls programming nex time.

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In my class there no difference between girls and boys about using computer because they are in a learning context with tasks they have to do but really I think that boys are more interesting outside of school because they share a videogame world and for all it takes a big place and develop their ICT skills. Girl world is different and maybe we have to bring their world closer to ICT word : why not by creating with girls applications and games for girls to develop their interest for ICT ?

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The sooner you start with ICT in school there will be nearly no difference between boys and girls and in my situation - I am a woman and I am showing them that I can be an expert ...

Often it is proposed to do extra clubs for girls - I am not sure about - as I really hated those extra club when I was young.

Perhaps it would be good to find tasks which are more girly for those girls who want to, just to get their beginners interest and their self confidence .... to realize that they can be as good as the others.

Do you know code.org - hour of code: There is a first activity for more girly girls (code with Ana and Elsa) and one more for boys (angry birds)

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I agree with the idea that primary school is a opportunity to engage girls in computer science. To ensure more engagement, the students should work with projects that make sense in their everyday lives. This is one way to engage everyone in learning. Other strategy is create programming club exclusively for girls where they can feel more comfortable.

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I am teaching in grammar school and my students have only one year ICT. They all love to code, but many girls do not have a really interesting for some ICT future. I have to popularize ICT, especially by girls.

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I agree with the comments! Actually I´ve teaching Scratch to a group of 19 pupils (10 girls and 9 boys) and boys were more interested in the software than girls. Perhaps, a godd way to engange girls is to get closer topics for them.

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In my primary school classes I do not see a great difference between girls and boys. They are able to engage in coding, technology, math in the same way. During "hour of code" girls and boys have shown the same interest and enthusiasm. At this age we have to capture their interest with interesting lessons and activities.

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We do not have to sterotype things

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In my experience as a primary teacher I've never noticed great differences between males and females as regards computing topics. When they apply themselves to a job, they have the same entusiasm and curiosity.

we use computers to learn word processing, do research and educational games,so I don't know if the girls would be interested in coding.

Coding is also a totally new topic for me and this course is a good opportunity to learn what is taught in other contries. I think I will introduce some coding lessons the next few years because as was explained this will improve many skills useful for the lives of both genders

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I agree with both of them. I think seeing females which actually code or starting from something that engage both boys and girls (without suggesting gender differences) are both good strategies. A female teachers who introduce girls to coding can be a good start. I think sharing with students reflections about digital gender gap through playful ways or using pair programme where boys and girls have to experiment the same roles can be agood strategies too. Of course a good way fighting the digital gender gap is to introduce girls early in school teaching coding

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I agree and a good way fighting the digital gender gap is to introduce girls as early as necassary in school programming. To achive this i divide my stundets with a randomize way in small pairs including a boy and a girl.

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Being students at young age, they want to use computers equally, both girls and boys are equally attracted to it.

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I teach in primary school and at this age, in my experience, there isn’t a large difference between boys and girls about computing topics. So I don’t look at this like a challenge in my classes.

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I don't agree with the views presented in the video. I think today there aren't differences between boys and girls interests in general. For example, I see often boys attracted by the fashion world and girls interested in football. I think we have to break these stereotypes. If the statistics say that girls are less interest to coding maybe is because they have been less involved in it and less stimulated to participate in this kind of activity!

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One mustn’t generalise here! Very often I do not spot any issues with girls’ participation in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths) subjects. One can notice as many unengaged students among the girls as among the boys.

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At this age I do not see differences in using computers between boys and girls. All students have chances to learn coding.

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I do agree with the views presented in the video. If you manage to interest children, it doesn't matter if they are girls or boys. At the beginning they can be fascinated by the topic; carrying on, the will become interested in how can make the tools they need

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I think that this kind of stereotyping belongs more to the older generations than to the young ones. Indeed, it is adults who pass on messages which can be gender biased and which contribute towards such stereotypes. In my reality, I do not feel that such messages are being put across. As a woman, I am constantly aware of the fact that both girls and boys alike are able to engage in problem-solving, in maths, with technology, etc, and I also try to pass on these ideas when I hold parental involvement meetings, so that we break the stereotypes which adults might otherwise project on their children. My students accept that fact that all learners are different, but that gender does not play a part in it. Presenting them with good role models, of successful women and men who have contributed towards computer science, math or any other scientific subject, is of course, very inspiring, and helps to support the interest, and attract more students towards these subjects.

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In primary school, I do not think there is a difference between boys and girls concerning the learning of computing. Rather collaboration in girl groups / boy is often more effective than single gender group.

As a new field in primary school (future curriculum in 2016), all students are in the same initial conditions. Both girls and boys are the same consumption of computer objects, sometimes with a few differences in usage.
The situation seems very different in high school. There certainly has something to do from middle school ... but I'm just a primary school teacher ;-)
If we taught since kindergarten, maybe we would have more girls attracted to IT's jobs in future...

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i am a girl too and i have been coding for ten years. İn my classes i did not recognise any coding differencess belong to gender or i did not see it by that way.

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I think that using computers is an everyday activity for children. In my classroom, all, boys and girls, complete their tasks and like to work with projects that they choose the subject, something about their interests.

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I have started learning coding again recently and as a female find that my experience is very encouraging for girls. i make sure to offer them a lot of praise and encouragement. One of the students from school has joined the Coderdojo and in only 4 sessions made a website which will be featured in Dublin at the Coolest Project Awards. It does not get better than that to engage girls. Plus I am sure these girls will be encouraging others too. And BTW although I have been highly recommending the Hour of Code activities to everyone, girls including I strongly disagree that Disneys Frozen should be used to teach girls computing. It is very patronising to think all girls like pink and all girls like Frozen. Just saying.

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I would say the same than Simonetta in Italy. No difference between teaching computing science to boys or girls in primary Girls are interested in computer science when asked. It seems to change in middle school, I saw it in my daughter. We gave her a notebook when she was 8 and she barely uses it for emails. My son likes it mostly because he wants to create games so I am working on finding what could win back my daughter's interest. When I was her age, I was passionate in programming but my parents discouraged me in following that path. We are letting her choose her path, but I think that girls need a new approach. We need to create new approaches that will wake up their interest.

I found this great playlist of Ted Talks about women in CS (Computer Science) that I will watch to find ideas. I will also show my daughter the video from Bettina Bair "Inside your computer" to see how she reacts. I found it very interesting.

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My girls also like coding and they do their best.

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In this age I don't see diference in the interest in computer science between boys and girls.

I think coding is not only for boys! I'm a Programmer and I love to code... And I think girls can do this like boy :)

What we should do is motivate all in the coding , and show that everyone can do it equally!

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In my classes of Primary School I did not notice a different interest between boys and girls. They participate with interest. We use educational games, learn to use word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, internet research. This year we participated to The Hour of Code and all students were involved and they responded well.

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In my school I never noticed differences due to the gender of students. All boys and girls are all interested on using computer.During our school experience of "hour of code" boys and girls have shown the same interest and enthusiasm. I don't know what happens in the upper levels of school and why girls aren't attracted by scientific paths. So it difficult for me suggest strategies

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Yes, I do agree that less girls and women are entering the computer science and STEM fields. However at the primary school level my experience is that both boys and girls display the same level of eagerness and interest in using the computer and other related devices. They are curious and therefore teachers at this level need to ensure that computing is fun, relative to their interests and related to other subjects accross the curriculum.

Therefore in my classroom, there are no specific measures aimed at capturing the interest of girls as they are very eager. However I do believe that the interest of girls need to be sustained by interesting lessons and activities.

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I agree that it is important to make projects that the pupils find interresting and engaging to keep them interested in computer science. For both girls and boys its important that it seems meaningfull to learn and work with it. Its to easy to say you have to make it pink and shopping related to make it acceptable for the girls, because at least here where I teach, its a lot more complicated than that. The girls do a lot of the same things that the boys do, when it comes to hobbies and interests. Just about as many girls as boys play football... and when we did the hour of code, it was quite even on how the girls liked working with "flappy bird" as the boys. What might be just as important is how you follow up on their work with coding and computer science, and that you keep up on giving positive feedback and support for the girls as well when they succeed in the field. So that they feel that its a field where its acceptable that girls work and do well. Positive female role models is also a key point in this.

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It is noticeable decrease number of girls taking computing from 4th to 6th class. Will probably have to adjust and rethink tasks…

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Why are there no women talking about this topic in the second video? It is important to use rolemodels and give the girls the courage to try, there are a lot of preconceptions to overcome. I think it is important to both give them time, because often girls like to think things throug thouroughly before they do something while boys often try, try and tries again until the succeed or find out what they want (these are my preconceptions) but also to motivate them into wanting to know more. I usually with code.org after we have been working without computers and in my experiences the girls really like the setup that they are presenting. From there I find no difference between boys and girls, maybe with the exceptions from their individual interests. To conclude, in the beginning, in my experiences the girls need a different approach from the boys, but it is important to be perceptive among the student because sometimes a boy needs the other approach and vice versa.

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Also students of my school are all interested on Computer Science and there are no difference between boys and girls. Their way of working is different. Girls are more patient and riflexive than boys. The boys, instead, work faster and for attempts.

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I think that the views presented in the videos show that girls have the "accepted idea" - Computer Science is for men. In computer courses that I already taught I hadn't so much girls. In a class of 20 students at least 2 were girls. I also had only male classes.The good strategies to engage girls in computing topics are the ones reported on the videos. We could engage the students to do some searches about successful women in Computer Science, like Ada Lovelace, Grace Hoper, etc and put their searches in a Poster or a Presentation to share with the class mates or to do an exhibition in the school.They also could search for important women from computer science that work/live near their school town and invite her to do a little conference about her job and about her choice of studying computing. It's important to show to our female students that there are many jobs opportunities in Computing, IT, Software Devlopment areas and girls could achieve them.With this kind of activities, girls may have the opportunity to be open mind about learn computing and in the future, who knows, achieve a successful computer science career.

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Students from my class are interested in Computer science and are no difference between boys and girls. Coding is not only for boys andthe girls must improve their skills to understand that nothing is impossible if they have any fear.

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We have to convince students (male and female) that coding isn't something hard, something out of this world. We have to use the content relevant and meaningful, and useful to them. We will find that girls show more patience with assignment than boys and usually they finish their work faster, better than boys.

In my class everyone is involved and they have to be active. We are currently using Scratch and kids love to play with different sprites and move them, change them. Of course sometimes the girls prefer to make things different than boys but that is natural.

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It is astonishing how small the number of women working in IT is. From my own personal experience I find that boys tend to be better at computers when it comes to coding and trouble shooting while girls are better at visual presentations.

As with all teaching, you need a 'hook' if you want to grasp the kids attention. To get girls interested then the topic needs to be relative to girl's interests. Not only that, it needs to be relevant to every individual girl's interests. Not all girls like pink, dolls and shopping as some stereotypical views might suggest! A simple idea is to host an ICT day for girls.

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What would it be the best way to make sure that girls like computing?I believe that they already do, at least at this age (elementary school). Girls and boys interests are very similar, and from my experience girls are more resourceful and perseverante than boys. What we shouldn't do is stereotype things - as said in the second video - and make sure that we are able to find the right motivation for each of our students.

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I also think, that girls are interesting. But maybe most girls are not open to try theirown, And also girls are more selfcritical and afraid of failure.

I agree that too many things are made too girlly and pink - for some it equals toddlers or not so smart girls.

I think you can engage girls by showing them what and how they can too. As with boys - first something easier and fun- like Scrats and then why not app inventor?!

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Nowadays computers are a part of our everyday life. They are associated with every aspect of our lives.  Computing covers all interests.

So when we study a computers topic (word processor, presentations, coding etc) my role is, to show examples of different  applications of all these tools.

I see that children (both boys and girls) understand that computing is something that concerns everyone.

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I ran the Hour of Code at our school in the past two years, for groups with both boys and girls - and realised quickly (and repeatedly) that the girls were very interested, showed more patience and were more focused than the boys and generally finished the assignments before the boys. Coding seems to require skills (patience, stamina, focus) that girls may possess more than boys.

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In my class there are actually more girl than boys. I could easily say that they are even more interested in programing than boys. The course is optional and still there are more girls.

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We don`t have computer training in primary classes, but when we work on eTwinning projects, we use some digital devices. Through our last activity I gave the pupils an opportunity to divide themselves into groups and to choose form given ideas to work, or to  think about theirs. I wanted to find out what is the most interesting topic for the boys and for the girls. The result: most of groups, composed of boys, chose to present their best computer games or football teams. Most of groups, composed of girls, chose to work on topics, related to fashion, spring, Easter. But three girls presented their favourite digital toy- Furby.They made a Furby poster and showed their classmates what Furby can do. It was very interesting for me, becase I have seen more boys to play computer games than girls.

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I teach girls. Some girls are more interested in engaging with Scratch than others. Some of my pupils chose to code with Scratch while others like to play online math games. Some of my pupils like to engage with coding in Scratch while others like to use their creativity and spend quite a bit of time developing backgrounds and changing the look of their sprites. that's ok with me. I try to pair a 'coder' with a 'drawer' so that they can see how one can compliment the other. The pupils that tend to be more interested in Scratch / Minecraft are the pupils who see them being used at home. I ask those girls to become my 'genius bar' and help others with troubleshooting. This tends to make it a little bit 'cool' in class to be seen as being good at coding.

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Computer science is interesting school subjects. It is interesting for girls and boyus equal. In my country there are equality when we talk about computing, and computer science.

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Many different projects have been initiated to introduce and keep girls into computing. My experience is that boys are basically more interested in computing than girls, but the girls in my computing classes are usually among the top students. Their mind seems to be more built to do these types of things.

In primary school classes I experience that the difference are less significant in secondary schools. Maybe the tasks given and the tools given are more suitable for both sex than some of the tools suitable for older students?

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I think that teaching the coding in primary school should be given equal opportunities to boys and girls in choosing courses of study related to the future of computer science

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I haven’t noticed any difference between girls and boys in primary school. They are equally interested in participating in computing activities. These activities make the lesson more interesting and engage students’ attention.

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I haven't realised any differencies between girls and boys. Both of them are engaging in computing. Girls are more likely to make presentations of lessons like history, science and boys are more interested to make scratch. Both girls and boys are interested in playing games and are equally competent. A significant strategy-method in order to make all students involved is to give assignments close to their interests.

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I think that in my class there is no difference between girls or boys. Both of them are involved .Girls love to search information’s and make interesting presentations and videos about several topics, while the boys love to talk about games, or make a scratch. I try to provide them opportunities to develop projects according to their interests in mixted groups(boys and girls).

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I think it would be agood strategy to teach coding in a motivating way. I like in the video (Girls Teaching Girls to Code) the teaching way: ’Basic Programming Bootcamp; Fun Projects, real apps; Mentorship’. We can mainly copy the Fun Projects.

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In primary education boys and girls are both interested in Computing. But, by the time girls reach secondary education, they begin to lose their interest. I think that the key for keeping girls (and boys) engaged in Computing is to make
the lesson more attractive, by using games or topics that are interesting to them. Also, starting computing in primary education help girls (and boys) getting familiar with computational thinking and problem solving.

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There were good suggestions re inviting good role models to classrooms so that pupils, boys and girls, can see CS in action in the real world. I see a lot of merit in the idea of presenting an issue or a problem and developing a way of solving that problem through CS, rather than just doing coding for its own sake. I am not at all expert in coding, but am trying to facilitate the pupils to learn through Scratch and Hour of Code lessons.

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I agree with the views presented in the videos. Both boys and girls are engaged in computing topics and very interested in solving ICT problems.

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I agree with the ideas of the videos.

The key is to engage all students in topics that are interesting and challenging to them, either they are boys or girls.

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I'm a girl who studies Computer Science and I have to say I decided for this path because of my teacher in HighSchool (who is also a women) – she presented Computer Science as a very important  and useful thing. We did a lot of practical work and I really loved it. I think there are more and more girls who like Computer Science. If you really don't enjoy doing it, it's better to leave it, because Computing is hard, I admit (depends what you do), so you have to have the passion and the will to finish the work you started and not give up. I agree that we should present Computer Science to girls in the way that they see cleary what is it about. And then they can decide themselves, if they're interested or not. We visited a company once with school and a man in company said: we need girls in Computer Science, because they are so organized and have everything under control :)

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I knew about this problem in the course “how to engage students to study STEM subjects”, and I was really surprised because in my experiences the best students in my classes are girls. They are interesting in math and science, feel my passion and are always more enthusiasts to do different tasks. I asked to myself “is it real?”; so the next day I asked to my third class students which kind of high school they have decided to frequent, and here was another surprised, most of the girls have chosen humanistic schools! Why? They answered we want study foreign languages because I’d like to travel or I’d like work in tourism or something like that. I know very well that most of foreign languages graduates don’t go anywhere, or maybe just a little percentage. So what can I do? The problem is that they don’t know anything about the jobs that they can do studying STEM subjects and the different of the woman approach in STEM. One idea could be to show jobs, listening employee, and computing too.

In the second video the teacher said also a really true thing, we have to involve pupils with a wide of different approaches, they have to be fashionable for a wide of pupils. Not only in front a computers!

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Both boys and girls are engaged in ICT activities. There is not any good or bad strategy because the activity in itself is a challange.

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To tell you the truth girls are more willing to participate in ICT activities whereas boys are sometimes bored if the tasks are not game-based activities.

I am a woman and I am very fond of ICT and programming. I have made already a Hour of Code course and it was amazing.

So, I haven't seen any problem with involving girls in computing.

In my opinion, all students are asked to do the same activities. I agree with the video that real-life themes for both sexes makes all students participate.

Expeting that some hystorical notes about the womens impact on computing may be useful.

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In my country I don't agree with these stereotypes since in my ICT class either boys or girls are attracted to coding and have fun doing it. My students have to create an original game and they can use either Scratch or Kodu. It is interesting though that boys do have a tendency to make the game around football or war fight while girls do games about a romantic story with princesses or castles... Boys are more clumsy on creating the code lines and have a tendency to use more lines that could be worked together, while girls are more accurate and use coding on a more effective way. This kind of stereotypes reminds me of an video created by Bruno Bozzetto

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Do we engage girls to attend math or science classes? For me this is not a real question. The question is: If the computing is so important, why is not a compulsory subject in every country in EU? Is the computing basic knowledge that every student should have? If computing is not basic knowledge that everyone should have in 21st century than we can set question how to engage more girls in computing and later in computing career path.

I believe that once in the near future the computing will be the compulsory part of every educational system. Then questions about engaging girls will then not be relevant.

But thinking about girls in computing has one positive part. It forces teachers to think how to do computing more interesting. That could be useful also for male students since there are not all boys enthusiastic about computing.

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Absolutely important to reflect on - also in class. I thought that the idea of introducing different fields or angels in class was very important. Why not start with the pupils own field of interest, be that cars or fashion - and think about how computers and coding can be implemented into that field, or how you can work with computers in that field of interest. The idea of making an app is good. You can start from your own perspective. We've made apps in class, focusing on something in our community. The students could choose to present different activities, sites, places to eat or meet, and so on. They also could choose the target group.

In my class there isn't a great difference in how girls and boys take interest in ICT, some find it more interesting than others. The challenge is to find lesson tasks that will inspire all students.

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I agree with the views
presented in the video. However, there aren’t any differences between girls and boys in primary level in computing topics. Both girls and boys are interested in computing and have equal skills.  The gender inequalities appear later and of course it is a very big social problem. Girls do need more motivation and more female role models to ake up computing related subjects at high school and
university. So it’s essential that girls are already engaged in computing
topics with primary school subjects

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I don´t agree with the statement that girls need extra motivation for be involved in Computer Science. Boys and girls in Primary school have similar interests, they both have the same curiosities about the world around them and both want to create products using technology that are revelant for them like magazines, video games, charts, resentations, etc.

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I haven't really had this discrimination in my mind. All students are asked to do the same activities. To tell you the truth girls are more willing to participate in ICT activities whereas boys are sometimes bored if the tasks are not game-based activities. As a woman I set the example of women educators using ICT for classroom activities and moreover, I agree with the video that real-life themes for both sexes makes all students participate.

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In the first presentation, we can discover that only 14.5% of engineers are girls. The reason seems to be the fact that they don`t think they are good enough; they consider that computer science is boring and also, they think engineers are not cool. I consider most of these stereotypes and lack of knowledge about computer science. The first strategy involves teaching highschool girls to code; to understand that computer science is fun and useful and also, mentoring/guiding them. I like this idea, because teenagers need models, so, having powerful and positive models could help them choose a career in computer science. The second video underlines the idea of role - models too, because it is important for girls (and for primary school girls too) to understand that computing shouldn`t be a man dominated area. Another great idea is the fact that the subject you teach should be attractive to all students (beyond gender), should be approachable/accesible for all of them! Also, I like the idea that we should find topics that are meaningful for the whole class (from sports to fashion, to environmental issues and so on), because otherwise, we could loose some students` interest. We have to make CONTENT AND RELEVANCE FOR THEM! In this context, coding is just a tool, which can help my students achieve what is relevant for them. I really like this approach.

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I do not believe there’s a difference between boys and girls at primary school regarding computing. Boys and girls alike find activities related to computing interesting and stimulating.

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When we use digital tools at school boys are more quick because they often they already know how to use basic computer programs. But within a few time girls come out for their creativity and communicating skills. Mix males and females...Trying to find common skills promote recognizing. LET THEM PLAY TOGETHER

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So far I haven't faced any difficulty in involving girls in projects involving the use of computers. As I have noticed girls and boys tend to have some common interests nowadays - even football sometimes, but I agree with the teacher's view in the second video that we should take into consideration our pupils interests and then act on them.

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I agree that you should pitch things in relation to the interests of your pupils but their interest in the lesson could be more influenced by their style of learning, regardless of sex. Giving them options to learn in different ways and highlighting the importance of having some technology based skills would probably need to be investigated.

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Actually, I haven't seen any problem with involving girls in computing. May be some topics (as what the inside of computer looks like) are more interesting for boys, but other - for girls. Even more, sometimes in programming, girls show more persistence than boys.

Expeting that some hystorical notes about the womens impact on computing may be useful.

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Please free to use these slides in your lessons to show some of the amazing women who have influenced the history of computing! More information about Ada Lovelace can be seen on the blog of Winchester House School

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I read this article in the Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera"

http://27esimaora.corriere.it/articolo/diversi-dati-alla-mano-ma-perche/

"And the rankings for men and women? That's the theme "new". summarize: math, the 37 countries considered by the OECD men recorded the highest scores of women in high school 36. Only Icelanders understand mathematics than their counterparts. But on average, males are ahead 11 points on a scale where those who make the maximum is 565 (the Finnish guys). It is true that the average Italian male than a Finnish or an 'Australian or a Czech as is a Fields Medal (the Nobel of mathematics). Let's move on to science . Again, male a clear advantage, although a bit 'less. They do better than women in 24 countries, worse in ten (women more scientific in Turkey, Norway, South Korea ...) and tie in two: Australia and the United States. Here in the aggregate group of countries, the average advantage of men is narrowed to two points. And even here the differences between countries, ie between education systems seem stronger than those between the sexes, but also these are noted. "

I work in a primary school and not finding this difference between males and females although I must say that in Italian culture is preserved the idea that if you're a woman and you can not do the calculations is not a big problem, but if you are male then the problem is big. That is probably the opposite. As a set of schools that are working on the results of the students thought of doing meetings with parents to talk about this cultural problem.

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In my opinion;  both girls and boys are interested in computing.And maybe girls are more successful ! Because they are  are more  eager to learn new things, to acquire new computing skills, and they add a huge value to a group when they are involved in coding.

I think; girls have also imagination and creativeness and they have the tendency to be very precise while the boys love to talk and make scratch games. At the beginning of this year,we took part in Hour of Code and mast of fast learner students were girls! By the way;  I don't use different teaching ways between girls and boys and I don’t need to do that.

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Well yes, I agree with the views presented in the video. I haven't noticed any difference between girls and boys in skills and interest in primary school activities. In psychology the Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner, 1983) makes a clear statement about sex discrimination in learning. But it's true that in secondary education and university studies, computing is much closer to math and physics in addition to hardware related work and knowledge requirements. Among many others I also can't find anything attractive for a girl with a screwdriver in her back pocket ready to fix things in a network environment although she maybe is a brilliant programmer. Ellen Pao's (Reddit) case in Silicon Valley is a hot topic to discuss worldwide. Finally, I don't interfere with pupils' nature but my goal is for them to feel comfortable using computer technologies and turn computing thinking into a qualification for any aspect of their life choices.

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Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He is currently the senior director of Harvard Project Zero, and since 1995, he has been the co-director of The Good Project.