Teaching Girls Online Skills: Results of the Wikid Grrls Intervention

Abstract

In 2013-2016, we designed and implemented Wikid Grrls, a 10-week after-school workshop series to teach online skills to middle school girls in U.S. schools. We interviewed and surveyed eighty participants before and after the workshop. Girls' online skills and confidence in them increased for the duration of the workshop series. Participants expressed great interest in learning more, but media literacy programs at their schools emphasizing online skills were lacking. Using feminist theories and the reader-to-leader framework, we argue that such media literacy interventions bring immediate learning rewards for participants. Further, we conclude that media literacy classes that include online skills should become regular features in U.S. school curricula instead of being offered merely in voluntary programs. This is essential to narrow gender gaps in digital knowledge creation and sharing. Future research is needed to assess long-term benefits of media literacy interventions to teach online skills longitudinally to see if, and how, such initiatives figure into subsequent schooling and career decisions.

Gender Digital Divide and Women's Digital Inclusion: A Systematic Mapping

“…However, the second and third levels (effective use and appropriation of ICTs) require attention since a lower rate in the use and appropriation of ICTs by women is visualized (Galperín, 2017;Prendes-Espinosa et al, 2020;Rai, 2019). In the same way, Arroyo (2020), Eckert et al (2018), Febro et al (2020), García-Aguilera et al (2021, Raman & Thannimalai (2019) recognize the importance of digital inclusion to reduce social and gender inequalities effectively. In this sense, this article attempts to analyze recent studies (2017-2021) that have addressed the issue of GDD and the digital inclusion of women in diverse fields from a global vision to identify current trends and requirements regarding the topic through the analysis and interpretation of a systematic mapping presented in three phases: 1) introduction, 2) method and report of results, 3) discussion and conclusions.…”

Desigualdades y diferencias que promueven la brecha digital de género en la actualidad y limitan la inclusión

“…Por lo anterior, en el presente trabajo se exteriorizan los resultados de una revisión de la literatura que tuvo como objetivo analizar las publicaciones recientes (2017-2021) que abordaron el tema de la BDG y la inclusión digital de mujeres, además de identificar las desigualdades que limitan la inserción de las mujeres en el mundo digital y las diferencias tecnológicas y sociales entre hombres y mujeres, ya que se reconoce la importancia de reducir las inequidades sociales y digitales de forma efectiva para promover una verdadera inclusión digital de las mujeres (Arroyo, 2020;Eckert et al, 2018;Febro et al, 2020). desarrollo Esta revisión de la literatura tuvo como objetivo identificar las desigualdades y diferencias que disminuyen la inclusión digital de mujeres y promueven la BDG a través de: las bases metodológicas de Kitchenham (2004) y Kitchenham y Charters (2007).…”