Rethinking Equity: An Imperative for Educational Computing

Suzanne K. Damarin

Computing Teacher Vol. 16, No. 7 (1989) pp. 16–18

Discussion of equity in computer science education focuses on issues related to gender. Topics discussed include computers and society, including employment changes and the relationship of women to society; the relationship between mathematics...

School and Situated Knowledge: Travel or Tourism?

Suzanne K. Damarin

Educational Technology Vol. 33, No. 3 (1993) pp. 27–32

Examines issues related to situated cognition and learning, both in the classroom and in the world. Topics discussed include educational theories; the situated nature of knowledge; the perception of experts; and the role of technology in situated...

Women and Information Technology: Framing Some Issues for Education

Suzanne K. Damarin

Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching Vol. 6, No. 2 (1992) pp. 16–20

Discusses relationships among technology, women, and education. Presents three views of the computer's future: (1) the robot as superior human; (2) the cyborg; and (3) the human-computer dyad. Discusses effects that the computer has had upon work...

Technology in the Classroom: Initiative or Response? New Directions in Curriculum Development

Suzanne K. Damarin

Within the last five years there has been a great deal of change in the role of technology in the schools. The advent of microcomputers has had an impact on instructional techniques as has the development of interactive graphics and animation, and...

Rethinking Science and Mathematics Curriculum and Instruction: Feminist Perspectives in the Computer Era

Suzanne K. Damarin

Journal of Education Vol. 173, No. 1 (1991) pp. 107–23

The computer has a role in the feminist reform of curriculum and instruction in science and mathematics instruction if technology is used to move away from didactic linear presentations of mere facts. Computers have the potential to open science and ...

Issues of Gender and Computer Assisted Instruction. Symposium: Technological Equity: Issues in Ethics and Theory

Suzanne K. Damarin

This paper examines research on the education of women and girls from the perspectives of sex differences, gender differences, and feminist studies, with particular reference to the implications of the findings for the design of computer-assisted...

Technology and Multicultural Education: The Question of Convergence

Suzanne K. Damarin

Theory Into Practice Vol. 37, No. 1 (1998) pp. 11–19

Examines the potential for convergence of technology and multicultural education, identifying strategies for and barriers to developing common ground. The paper explains differences and oppositions, examines parallels in the pedagogical work of the...

Equity, Caring, and Beyond: Can Feminist Ethics Inform Educational Technology?

Suzanne K. Damarin

Educational Technology Vol. 34, No. 2 (1994) pp. 34–39

Examines the evolving formulation of ethics within a feminist critique of educational equity. Topics discussed include the development of feminist ethical and educational concerns from the consciousness-raising movement of the 1970s; deconstruction; ...

Computer Instruction in Estimation: Improvement in High School Mathematics Students

Suzanne K. Damarin

School Science and Mathematics Vol. 88, No. 6 (1988) pp. 488–92

Investigated was a sequence of computer-based activities on estimation with 108 students in grades 9, 10, and 12. The activities were appropriate for students at each grade level; each class improved their estimation scores significantly. (MNS)

Computer-Mediated Communication as Experienced by Korean Women Students in US Higher Education

Mikyung Baek; Suzanne K. Damarin

Language and Intercultural Communication Vol. 8, No. 3 (August 2008) pp. 192–208

Having grown up in an age of rapidly developing electronic communication technology, today's students come to higher education with high levels of comfort and familiarity with computer-mediated communication (CMC, hereafter). The students' level of...

Examining a Model for Courseware Development

Suzanne K. Damarin; Carol M. White

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 6, No. 1 (1986) pp. 38–43

Describes the approach used in a doctoral seminar on designing instructional software for problem solving in mathematics. Explains how a five stage software development model was followed for producing materials. Includes student evaluations of the...