+
Overcoming
the
Silence
Diana Gross, ICT & Media Education Consultant
[email protected]
www.GlobalCitizenMedia.org.
+ Objective: to reflect upon the challenges, opportunities, new
technologies and methodologies in order to standardize the quality of
education girls globally have access to.
Essential Questions
1.
How can we use current brain research in order to leverage
mobile technologies within curriculums in order to increase
academic growth and literacy gains in girls worldwide?
2.
How can mobile technologies be integrated into curriculum in
order to create safe and encouraging learning environments for
girls?
3.
How can we as international development workers and educators
use mobile technologies to connect our existing networks of
women and girls in order to encourage self-empowerment, to
include them into these conversations about equality, and amplify
their voices so that we can all learn from them.
+
Two Sides of the Digital Divide…
2003-2006
2006-2007
2008-2010
2011-2014
2015 --
+
THE TWO SIDES OF THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
+
Girls are Girls…

CURIOUS

Social & Highly Empathetic

Attention to Details

Interconnectivity between Concepts

THRIVE on Positive Feedback
+
RESEARCH 
Prefrontal Cortex

Amygdala

Oxytocin

Cortisol
+ Initial Workshop – One Week ICT & Media classes in
Cambodia – December 2011
15 students:9 boys & 6 girls
+ Another Difference: Cultural Norms
+
DESIGNED a 3 MODULE ICTMEDIA CURRICULUM
+
PEDAGOGY for 21st Century
+
PILOT PROGRAM – ICT & Media classes
October 2012
MODULE 3
MODULE 2
MODULE 1
File Management
Basic Photography
Visual StoryTelling
Public Speaking
Basic Photoshop
Visual Storytelling 2
Internet Safety
Online Learning
Basic Researching
New Media
Investigative Journalism
Blogging
Basic Website Design
Video Production
+
Pedagogy for Mobile Learning
+ Creating a Safe, Robust Learning Environment
with Mobile Learning Technologies.
+
OVERCOMING the BARRIER,
“Step by Step”.
+
Reached out to other Communities
for Skyping…
Garrison Forest School,
United States
Tchey School,
Cambodia
+
Kept pushing…

Image of Blogging?
+
Never Let Up…
+
And THIS is what Happened…
(20 weeks)
+
Girls Found their Voice… and
wanted to speak for others…
(10 months)
+
Students Teaching Students…
+
We Continue to Imagine…
+
We can begin to imagine…
+
Overcoming
the
Silence
Diana Gross, ICT & Media Education Consultant
[email protected]
www.GlobalCitizenMedia.org.