“People Are Fighting Against Stereotypes in Academia With #ILookLIkeAProfessor,” Fiona Rutherford, Buzzfeed, August 11, 2015, at http://www.buzzfeed.com/fionarutherford/people-are-fighting-against-stereotypes-in-academia-with-ilo#.hxLO1wj98E
[The hashtag #ILookLikeAProfessor challenges stereotypes in academia. This article shows a sample of photographs and postings with that hashtag.]
“100 Percent Is Overrated,” James Hamlin, June 30, 2015, the Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/06/the-s-word/397205/
[James Hamlin reports on a talk by Jo Boaler, professor of mathematics education at Stanford University, at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Boaler suggests that telling children they are “smart,” instead of that they did well, makes them risk-averse: making mistakes would mean they are not “smart” instead of that they have a chance to learn. Boaler believes that high-achieving girls are particularly affected by this “fixed-mindset thinking,” which makes them especially vulnerable to societal messages that girls will not be good at math and sciences.]
“Feminist Anti-MOOC,” Scott Jaschik, August 19, 2013, Inside Higher Education
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/19/feminist-professors-create-alternative-moocs
[This article reports on a Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC) on Feminism and Technology. It outlines differences between MOOCs, which present the same material to all participants, and DOCCs, which draw on the insights and expertise of all course participants.]