Digital Heroines: An experience report with elementary school girls

• Emely V. V. Albernaz Lopes UFGD
• Valguima V. Viana Aguiar Odakura UFGD

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wit.2020.11300

Abstract

This paper reports the experience of the workshops held in 2019 for girls in elementary school, whose objective was to address the representation of women in the area of ​​science, especially technology, and concepts that allow the reflection of gender equity in society. Bearing in mind that, there is a need for many initiatives that de-characterize gender inequality, given that it is one of the UN objectives to be achieved by 2030, the Heroínas Digitais project promoted coordinated actions with teaching workshops on the use of Web 2.0 tools and programming in blocks, in order to encourage dialogues and reflections, exercising critical thinking.

Keywords: gender equity, experience report, elementary education

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