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Redefining Geek - Bias and the Five Hidden Habits of Tech-Savvy Teens (Hardcover)
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Redefining Geek - Bias and the Five Hidden Habits of Tech-Savvy Teens (Hardcover)
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A surprising and deeply researched look at how everyone can develop
tech fluency by focusing on five easily developed learning habits.
Picture a typical computer geek. Likely white, male, and someone
you'd say has a "natural instinct" for technology. Yet, after six
years teaching technology classes to first-generation, low-income
middle school students in Oakland, California, Cassidy Puckett has
seen firsthand that being good with technology is not something
people are born with-it's something they learn. In Redefining Geek,
she overturns the stereotypes around the digitally savvy and
identifies the habits that can help everyone cultivate their inner
geek. Drawing on observations and interviews with a diverse group
of students around the country, Puckett zeroes in on five
technology learning habits that enable tech-savvy teens to learn
new technologies: a willingness to try and fail, management of
frustration and boredom, use of models, and the abilities to use
design logic and identify efficiencies. In Redefining Geek, she
shows how to measure and build these habits, and she demonstrates
how many teens historically marginalized in STEM are already using
these habits and would benefit from recognition for their talent,
access to further learning opportunities, and support in career
pathways. She argues that if we can develop, recognize, and reward
these technological learning habits in all kids-especially girls
and historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups-we can
address many educational inequities and disparities in STEM.
Revealing how being good with technology is not about natural
ability but habit and persistence, Redefining Geek speaks to the
ongoing conversation on equity in technology education and argues
for a more inclusive technology learning experience for all
students.
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