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Making media stars of women academics

Making media stars of women academics | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"While male experts still dominate the airwaves, a growing number of female researchers are getting themselves trained to take on the media challenge ..."

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Rise of the fembots: Why artificial intelligence is often female

Rise of the fembots: Why artificial intelligence is often female | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"From Apple's iPhone assistant Siri to the mechanized attendants at Japan's first robot-staffed hotel, a seemingly disproportionate percentage of artificial intelligence systems have female personas. Why? ..."

Manupule Sautia's curator insight, March 27, 2015 7:59 AM

although we human beings can do stuff ourselves, we only  have one of us, we have no clones whatsoever, so creating robots with artificial intelligence will do the risky jobs that we human beings can't do, so this will be a major tech in the next 5-10 years

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Why women make gifted coders

Why women make gifted coders | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Linda Liukas believes the world will be a better place if more women learn computer coding, and has written a children’s book to catch them young ..."

June Rumiko Klein's curator insight, August 3, 2015 11:27 AM

Linda Liukas' assertion that "Women make gifted coders because they are creative and brilliant communicators" makes sense to me.  The art of storytelling is also about successfully communicating your ideas with a purpose in mind to others.  The more complex and creative the story, the more the reader enjoys and learns from the experience.  Imagine a world where our culture values everyone for what they can contribute and not how they fit into long held stereotypes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvrHjDIVj8

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Lego celebrates brainy women with female scientist mini-figure set

Lego celebrates brainy women with female scientist mini-figure set | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The series, titled Research Institute, is the Lego Ideas winner for Winter 2014 ..."

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