Jess Hamer

Marketing computing: how school branding reinforces or challenges gender stereotypes This paper examines how school branding and policy may shape gender disparities in computing education. Wong et al. explore how schools portray computing in brochures, websites and related material...

🎯 New open access paper: What do school websites signal about computing and who it is for? Using document data (n = 960), we examine how schools frame computer science in public-facing materials, and what that might mean for gendered participation.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@nuffieldfoundation.org @billybwong.bsky.social @drjessicahamer.bsky.social

#computing
#stem
#edusky

Ahh no Ian... Hope you get answers and help for it soon. 🤞

Children’s Perception of the World of Technology: Through the Lens of Heidegger - Philosophy & Technology Analysis of student engagement with technology has mainly focused on physical and mental health, predominantly overlooking deeper philosophical issues. Through the analysis of four focus groups (child...

New article: Children’s Perception of the World of Technology: Through the Lens of Heidegger

Children found technology distracted them from connecting with nature, relating to others and themselves

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Children’s Perception of the World of Technology: Through the Lens of Heidegger - Philosophy & Technology Analysis of student engagement with technology has mainly focused on physical and mental health, predominantly overlooking deeper philosophical issues. Through the analysis of four focus groups (child...

New paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Teachers! Send us your computing girls!

Online - so all welcome
Please share 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/unloc...

@crestem.bsky.social @peterejkemp.bsky.social @drjessicahamer.bsky.social @jobrodie.bsky.social

How can we empower girls in computing? | Digital Literacy | Hello World podcast In this episode we discuss the current state of girls’ engagement in computing and explore how we can empower more girls in computing through school, university and their careers.

I recently recorded this podcast with @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social on how educators can help ensure ALL young people have the digital skills needed for their future. www.raspberrypi.org/hello-world/...

If the weather is clear there's a chance to see a partial solar eclipse this morning in the UK, Europe, Africa and much of N.America.

Eclipse starts 9.56 AM GMT 6.13 AM EDT

DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE ECLIPSE!

For more details, check out buff.ly/R79hRsn

Urgh... My silent account on the "other" platform has been hacked..and it seems there's nothing I can do about it. This is your friendly reminder to actually DELETE unused accounts 😣

This tiny primary school had the best #scienceweek #BSW25 #smashingstereotypes. This is the showcase of just the things they've done in the last week!

Agreed completely, but there's still work to be done in heathcare - leadership positions, different medical specialisms, nursing etc.

More women doctors than men for first time in UK A driving factor is the rising number of women joining medical schools, the General Medical Council says.

BBC News - More women doctors than men for first time in UK
www.bbc.com/news/article...

An absolute pleasure to discuss leading digital equity today with those on the STEM leadership module @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @crestem.bsky.social

New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈

Read: osf.io/preprints/os...
Findings 🧵👇

Depends very much on the country.... Japan has ~20% female doctors for example... No country has less than 25% male doctors... But *many* countries have fewer than 25% female doctors.

Beautiful iridescent cloud I saw today #physics

🎺 National Apprenticeship Week starts today!

Apprenticeships can be transformative opportunities, especially for those from less wealthy backgrounds.

We'll be highlighting the benefits of apprenticeships and why we need to boost access to them throughout this week #NAW2025 🚀

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

Fully expecting a chicken lockdown in the UK very soon (east of England is already)... They're not happy about it....

And it's the same deadline, 16 March, for the School and FE Technician Award. www.iop.org/about/awards... #chatphysics please share these widely

Eight weeks to nominate a great colleague - or yourself - for this year's IOP Teachers of Physics Awards. www.iop.org/about/awards... #chatphysics

Re-sharing as this is probably more relevant today than ever... #Inauguration

Twin 2 chooses just before bed on a Friday to ask "Who was the first human to drink water? Was it in the stone age or iron age?" Normally a lovely question... But it's been a loooong week!

This research was funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org at King's College London and the University of Reading. @crestem.bsky.social

AI & other digital skills are important for jobs... But we call for a rethink around the computing curriculum in England to ensure it serves ALL young people. SCARI Computing recommendations here: scari.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk @peterejkemp.bsky.social @billybwong.bsky.social @mcopseyblake.bsky.social

Not at all surprising...And this is in the biological sciences...

I've got these as well! Really nice idea!

On the left looks like honey fungus - not a friendly fungus for trees at all.

Only Ada?: dominance of entrepreneurial white men as the famous figures in computing and technology for young people Prominent public figures are important representatives of their fields, potentially becoming influential role models, especially for young people. The identities of these famous people can shape an...

New publication by @billybwong.bsky.social @peterejkemp.bsky.social @mcopseyblake.bsky.social and I, on the dominance of entrepreneurial white men as the famous faces in computing and tech for young people: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @nuffieldfoundation.org #WIASN

Equal Pay Day 2024: Gender Pay Gap HIGHER than previously thought On November 20th, 2024, women stop being paid compared to men. This is the point in the year when, on average, women effectively work for free. The gender pay gap is now 11.3%, up from 10.7% last year...

🗓️Today the Fawcett Society marks Equal Pay Day 2024, marking the point when women in the UK effectively stop earning relative to men due to the 11.3% gender pay gap.

💵That's £631 less in monthly take-home pay.

www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/equal-pay-da...