Slitsom dag i dag ja…

Det har vært nok en lang dag for IME. Dagen begynte klokken ni med tilstedeværelse i klasse for å lære bort en “kuul” bloggeting. Deretter var det rett bort til universitetet for å oppdatere templaten til prosjektbloggen med de nye bloggadressene til elevene jeg var hos i dag. Deretter var det å poste noen nye [...]

Data collection

I have started collecting data in two classes at Bergen Katedralskole. I have been to two classes, and the students have answered a questonnaire, and I have written all the different answers in a document. (48 pages). I attended one of the classes again today, and now all the students have a blog, and most [...]

-Break-

I am currently collecting data for my master thesis, and will not update my blog with anything interesting about my thesis for at least one month. Check in again in March!

Plan for meetings with teacher

Oct 2005: Initial meeting – Co-student works as teacher in high school, and offered her two classes as control group (class B) and research class (class A). We discuss introducing gaming and blogging as part of the teaching, I explain my thesis and what I want to research, on how the gap between girls and [...]

What do I want to measure?

Do students in high school want to know computers? Do they feel they have to know computers? And if so, who is deciding they have to know computers, and why are they deciding so? Do students handle computers? Where and why? Who teaches them about computers, and what do they want to achieve by handling [...]

First meeting with supervisor

First meeting with supervisor Tuesday 10 January. We agreed on aiming for a good grade, and to be finished in November this year. To accomplish that we will meet once a week, and I got homework for our next meeting. We scheduled weekly appointments every Thursday at 11 o’clock.
This week I will work with making [...]

A study of factors promoting success in computer science including gender differences

Article written by Brenda Cantwell Wilson, Department of Computer Science & Information Systems, Murray State University, published in Computer Science Education, 2002, vol 12, No 1-2, pp. 141-164.
The number of women completing bachelor’s degrees in general have increased, but the bachelor’s level for women in computer science is reduced. Study examines factors of success in [...]

Final proposal

My final version of my project description is in. It is very similar to my third draft, only with every instance of the word “general” removed.
Project description
Decreasing gender as a factor in ICT-learning?
How games can affect motivation for computers

Introduction:
Theoretic background:
General problem:
Hypothesis:
Method:
References:
Appendix A – Rules of an empirical experiment
Introduction:
When I was finishing my bachelor at the [...]

Working on my third draft…

I am currently working on my third draft for my master thesis. This is what I have so far…
General problem:
Some computer activities are perceived as “gendered”. Chatting, e-mail and typewriting is concidered gender-neutral or feminine activities while programming, database and computer games are concidered masculine activities (Corneliussen, 2002). How boys and girls approach computing will [...]

“Læreplan” – finally!

http://www2.udir.no/eway/?pid=207 [04.11.2005]
http://www2.udir.no/stati/karakstat/04/vigo_gk/xindex.html [04.11.2005]
http://www2.udir.no/stati/karakstat/04/vigo_vk1/xindex.html [04.11.2005]