Single+Sex+Education

This week we had the privilege of meeting Dr. Leonard Sax, an expert in the field of single-sex education.

Here are several links regarding single sex education from our meetings this week.

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Dr. Sax discussed Storytelling Alice. Our middle school students have met Alice in their Technology class. Alice is very easy to use and students can use Alice as a presentation tool or a storytelling tool. []/

He specifically discussed Dr. Caitlin Kelleher and Storytelling Alice. Here is the link to her page: [|http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~ckelleher/]

There are several papers available through the Alice website that discuss best practices for girls and programming. []

In our technology class, I also use scratch. [] Our middle school students responded better to Scratch. They felt that there were more opportunities to develop their own code and be more interactive with the program in Scratch.

The National Coalition of Girls' Schools has sponsored several studies related to what Dr. Sax discussed with us this week - []