This document outlines the plan for an unconventional conference session on developing a course reader about gender and engineering. The session will use an "unconference" model where attendees actively participate in discussions rather than passively listening to presentations. The session is divided into two conversations - the first to discuss definitions of gender and engineering, and the second to identify important questions the reader should answer. Attendees will report out key ideas to inform revising the reader prospectus, with the goal of continuing the conversation in future years.
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Gender and Engineering Course Reader Unconference
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Special session:
What should a course reader on gender and
engineering include?
An unconference discussion
Alice L. Pawley
School of Engineering Education, Purdue University
Donna Riley
Picker Engineering Program, Smith College
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un-unconference-y plan
Welcome, table intros
Project introduction
Unconferencing planning
First conversation
Second conversation
Next steps
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Welcome, table intros
Project introduction
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Second conversation
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project
Need for a gender and engineering textbook for...
• Graduate students in engineering education
• Scholars and instructors of engineering who care
about gender underrepresentation and who want an
introduction
• Gender scholars interested in science and technology
who have not focused on engineering
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project
So far...
• Session at National Women’s Studies Association,
November 2009
• Draft prospectus to MIT Press (no go so far)
• Special session at FIE
• Promise from us to revise prospectus and resubmit
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1. Presenter is facilitator. Attendees are presenters.
2. The sum of the expertise of the people in the
audience is greater than the sum of expertise of the
people on the stage.
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1. Presenter is facilitator. Attendees are presenters.
2. The sum of the expertise of the people in the
audience is greater than the sum of expertise of the
people on the stage.
3. These are the right people, it is the right time,
whatever happens is the only thing that could have,
and when it’s over, it’s over.
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1. Presenter is facilitator. Attendees are presenters.
2. The sum of the expertise of the people in the
audience is greater than the sum of expertise of the
people on the stage.
3. These are the right people, it is the right time,
whatever happens is the only thing that could have,
and when it’s over, it’s over.
4. Law of mobility: if, at any time, you find yourself in a
situation where you are neither learning nor
contributing, then move someplace else.
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Models: ScienceOnline 2009, 2010, 2011
http://scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki
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Conference program
developed transparently
on wiki by attendees
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Models: ScienceOnline 2009, 2010, 2011
http://scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki
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Conference sessions
involve public discussions
beforehand
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Models: ScienceOnline 2009, 2010, 2011
http://scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki
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Conference convos
continue after the
conference is over
14. Models: Postcards at 4th Global Colloquium on Engr
Education, September 26-29, 2005
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SamePlaceDifferentPlace
Different TimeSame Time
Postcards Communicate
with Persistence
I cannot attend the
conference because my
fish died ……
Groovy Postcard dude
Few saw my
presentation or poster
What is being presented at the
conference?
What was that interesting
paper at the conference?
Same Time Different Time
DifferentPlaceSamePlace
Slide shamelessly stolen from David Radcliffe
15. Models: Postcards at 4th Global Colloquium on Engr
Education, September 26-29, 2005
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Slide shamelessly stolen from David Radcliffe
16. Models: Postcards at 4th Global Colloquium on Engr
Education, September 26-29, 2005
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Slide shamelessly stolen from David Radcliffe
17. Our model needs to be different (‘cause of time,
and possibility of conference audience preparation)
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Time available
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10 min
Organizing 1st convo
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Organizing 2nd convo
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Report out
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and possibility of conference audience preparation)
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Time available
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Organizing 2nd convo
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2nd convo
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Report out
Plan on
“not enough” time –
it’s all we have for now.
But plan on subsequent
conversations!
19. Our model needs to be different (‘cause of time,
and possibility of conference audience preparation)
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What is gender, and what is engineering?
Ask and discuss your questions.
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and possibility of conference audience preparation)
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What is gender, and what is engineering?
Ask and discuss your questions.
What is gender, and what is engineering?
What questions should this reader answer?
21. Our model needs to be different (‘cause of time,
and possibility of conference audience preparation)
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What is gender, and what is engineering?
Ask and discuss your questions.
What is gender, and what is engineering?
What questions should this reader answer?
Available props: Tables of contents of existing
readers close to this topic
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1st convo: organization
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What is gender, and what is engineering?
Ask and discuss your questions.
1. Write your thoughts down
2. Organize within and across tables.
How best should these be grouped,
to encourage good conversation?
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1st convo: go!
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What is gender, and what is engineering?
Ask and discuss your questions.
1. Presenter is facilitator. Attendees are presenters.
2. The sum of the expertise of the people in the audience
is greater than the sum of expertise of the people on
the stage.
3. These are the right people, it is the right time, whatever
happens is the only thing that could have, and when it’s
over, it’s over.
4. Law of mobility: if, at any time, you find yourself in a
situation where you are neither learning nor
contributing, then move someplace else.
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2nd convo: organization
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1. Write your thoughts down
2. Organize within and across tables.
How best should these be grouped,
to encourage good conversation?
What is gender, and what is engineering?
What questions should this reader answer?
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25. What is gender, and what is engineering?
What questions should this reader answer?
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1. Presenter is facilitator. Attendees are presenters.
2. The sum of the expertise of the people in the audience
is greater than the sum of expertise of the people on
the stage.
3. These are the right people, it is the right time, whatever
happens is the only thing that could have, and when it’s
over, it’s over.
4. Law of mobility: if, at any time, you find yourself in a
situation where you are neither learning nor
contributing, then move someplace else.
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27. • We will take what we’ve heard and turn into
prospectus
• We hope someone else continues conversation
on feminist approaches to engineering education
next year
• We hope unconference model could be applied
somewhere in engineering education research
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the so what...
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contact us
Alice Pawley, apawley@purdue.edu
http://feministengineering.org
Donna Riley, driley@smith.edu
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Editor's Notes
Welcome! Thanks for spending your time with us – hope to have some stimulating conversation in next 90 minutes. I’m Alice Pawley, asst prof of Engr Ed and affiliate with women’s studies at Purdue – Research in Feminist Engineering Group Start with introducing yourselves at your tables – we won’t have big report out so you can focus on your local convos – 5 min Building on a good tradition of special sessions, we’ve helped organize a few special sessions over the last few years focusing on thinking about feminist approaches to engineering. Today – want to discuss with you the prospect of creating a course reader on the topic of gender and engineering.
Admit the irony that this is a beginning plan where an unconference begins with no plan But to help us make use of our limited plan we offer this as some loose structure
Keep track of where we are in our plan with the circles
Our collaborative project – Donna, do you want to introduce?
Donna to introduce?
Alice: Mashup between open space technology and unconference ideals – the best part of the conference is the conversations in hallways and over dinner – so this helps bring that structure into the formal program. Some basic tenets – not sage on stage, barely guide on side.
Expertise in room is larger than in the person at the front – so how do we construct our conceptual and actual space and time together to access that expertise
Some things to take on faith – no shoulda woulda couldas,
Last – major rule to kee yourself and others accountable to – if you find yourself in a discussion where you are neither learning nor contributing, it is your responsibility to move to a different discussion. Or to start a new discussion,
Alice – has blogged pseudonymously and as herself, and experienced unconferencing as part of ScienceOnline National unconference for conversations about science through blogs, informal online networks, online tools, journalism, and so on. Conference wiki was a critical tool
Stolen from David
Jo Walther may get a shock when he sees this – his postcard!
Subsequent conversations in the hall, at dinner, at the bar later.
We propose...
Now. Should your conversation be going FABULOUSLY and you want to stick with it – that’s you prerogative as in an unconference session. But you must be feeling that the conversation is worthwhile, and that you’re either contributing or learning. If you are not – leave it – visit another table, or change topics. Tools for doing this – post-it notes on tables –
Sticky notes ouone way of starting this org convo is for people to spend a min thinking on own about what they hope to learn – write on stickynote, then when you’re ready, start a collection of sticky notes on a table – looking for people also interested in talking about this Give it 10 minutes – we will call time. t to tables – what are your
Now. Should your conversation be going FABULOUSLY and you want to stick with it – that’s you prerogative as in an unconference session. But you must be feeling that the conversation is worthwhile, and that you’re either contributing or learning. If you are not – leave it – visit another table, or change topics.