BringBackBoys
Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning
Ali Carr-Chellman spells out three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video games that teach as well as entertain.
Tedx Talk
In her talk, Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video games that teach as well as entertain. (Filmed atTEDxPSU.)
Why should you listen to her?
A former third-grade teacher, Ali Carr-Chellman realized that traditional elementary classrooms weren't for her, in part because she was frustrated by the lack of innovation, agility, and readiness to change in traditional schools. She's now an instructional designer, author and educator, working on how to change and innovate within schools to make education work better for more kids. She teaches at Penn State University in the College of Education, working primarily with doctoral-level students to help produce the next generation of faculty with inspired research ideas and methods.
Carr-Chellman also teaches online courses focused on helping practicing teachers learn how to improve their own instructional design practices and how to improve their classrooms.Her recent research projects include "Bring Back the Boys," looking at ways gaming can be used to re-engage boys in their elementary education. Another projects asks prisoners and homeless people to think about how to reform schools, bringing new voices to the policy-making table.
Boston NPR
The statistics on boys in schools keep getting worse. The latest show that boys in 65 countries scored significantly lower than girls in literacy tests. Other research shows that boys are far more likely to be held back a year in school, to be suspended or to drop out of school altogether.
Scholar Ali Carr-Chellman tells Here and Now‘s Robin Young that the problem is not boys. The problem, she says, is that schools no longer welcome the competitive, physical culture of boys, and boys are getting the message that school is not for them. Carr-Chellman says to reach boys, schools should start with what boys like, including video games, and incorporate that into teaching.
Fox Business News
John Stossel reports on Business News on several differences between boys and girls. He begins with his 20/20 report in a class of first graders on differences between boys and girls in the classroom. In his report he saw a clear difference in the way that boys and girls behaved as he read a book to the class. The boys were more eager to engage him directly with ideas and thoughts of their own as the girls passively sat in their places. Upon interviewing the students he discovered that the boys were more likely to talk more in class, have more energy and are likely to take risks on being wrong.
Stossel then follows with an interview with physician/psychologist and author of "Boys Adrift", Dr. Leonard Sax. He reports that school takes boys motivation away with no tolerance policies and punishing normal boy behavior. This is followed by a panel discussion on the boy biases in education, title IX and the effects of gender biases in the workplace. Lastly this video finishes up with a facts on common gender myths.
John Stossel: Battle of The Sexes
On the issue of the Battle between the sexes John Stossel has a panel discussion on why boys are cheated by American Schools, the need for government to force schools to provide equal sports, the effects of gender biases in the workplace. Stossel takes questions from social media as well as the audience to challenge the panelist ideas. This battle spills out into finding out the truths about several gender myths.