Name: 【TED】Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning (Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning)
Uploaded: 2017-05-14T11:05:33.000Z
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So I'm here to tell you that we have a problem with boys,

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that we can think about overcoming that problem.

First, I want to start by saying, this is a boy,

and this is probably stereotypically what you think of as a boy and a girl.

If I essentialize gender for you today, then you can dismiss what I have to say.

So I'm not going to do that, I'm not interested in doing that.

This is a different kind of boy and a different kind of girl.

So the point here is that not all boys exist within these rigid boundaries

and not all girls exist within those rigid boundaries

But, in fact, most boys tend to be a certain way,

the way that they exist and the culture that they embrace

The 100 girls project tells us some really nice statistics.

For example, for every 100 girls that are suspended from school,

there are 250 boys that are suspended from school.

For every 100 girls who are expelled from school,

there are 335 boys who are expelled from school.

For every 100 girls in special education,

For every 100 girls with a learning disability,

For every 100 girls with an emotional disturbance diagnosed,

And by the way, all of these numbers are significantly higher

if you happen to exist in an overcrowded school.

you're four times as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD --

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

And it is important that we recognize that women still need help in school,

that salaries are still significantly lower,

and that girls have continued to struggle in math and science for years.

from paying attention to the literacy needs

In fact, what we ought to do is take a page from their playbook,

because the initiatives and programs that have been set in place

for women in science and engineering and mathematics are fantastic.

They've done a lot of good for girls in these situations,

and we ought to be thinking about how we can make that happen for boys too

what we find is that there's still a problem.

60 percent of baccalaureate degrees are going to women now,

And in fact, university administrators are a little uncomfortable about the idea

that we may be getting close to 70 percent female population in universities.

This makes university administrators very nervous,

because girls don't want to go to schools that don't have boys.

the establishment of men centers and men studies

to think about how do we engage men in their experiences in the university.

If you talk to faculty, they may say, "Ugh. Yeah, well,

and they're gambling online all night long,

and that's affecting their academic achievement."

They were turned off a long time before they got here.

So let's talk about why they got turned off

when they were between the ages of three and 13.

that boys are out of sync with the culture of schools today.

A kindergarten teacher I know, her son donated all of his toys to her,

and when he did, she had to go through and pull out all the little plastic guns.

You can't have plastic knives and swords and axes

and all that kind of thing in a kindergarten classroom.

What is it that we're afraid that this young man is going to do with this gun?

to the fact that you can't roughhouse on the playground today.

I'm not suggesting that we need to be allowing guns and knives in the school.

But when we say that an Eagle Scout in a high school classroom

who has a locked parked car in the parking lot and a penknife in it,

I think we may have gone a little too far with zero tolerance.

Another way that zero tolerance lives itself out

you're not allowed to write about anything that's violent.

You're not allowed to write about anything that has to do with video games.

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