TY - GEN
T1 - Learning resilience in the face of bias
T2 - 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning: Exploring the Material Conditions of Learning, CSCL 2015
AU - Richard, Gabriela T.
AU - Hoadley, Christopher
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Online digital gaming environments have been proposed as an important form of computer-supported collaborative learning, but these environments have been shown to marginalize some learners, most notably women or girls, as well as ethnic or racial minorities. Furthermore, game-based competencies and identities have been shown to be important for digitally-mediated learning activities and trajectories in computer science and technology. In this paper we look at how supportive communities can improve resilience by mitigating stereotype threat, and thereby helping to protect vulnerable groups from the negative effects of implicit and explicit bias in gaming culture and game-based learning activities. Our findings demonstrate that a female-supportive gaming community can foster equitable gaming identification and self-concept, and we propose that similar models can be used with other marginalized groups (i.e., ethnic/racial minorities).
AB - Online digital gaming environments have been proposed as an important form of computer-supported collaborative learning, but these environments have been shown to marginalize some learners, most notably women or girls, as well as ethnic or racial minorities. Furthermore, game-based competencies and identities have been shown to be important for digitally-mediated learning activities and trajectories in computer science and technology. In this paper we look at how supportive communities can improve resilience by mitigating stereotype threat, and thereby helping to protect vulnerable groups from the negative effects of implicit and explicit bias in gaming culture and game-based learning activities. Our findings demonstrate that a female-supportive gaming community can foster equitable gaming identification and self-concept, and we propose that similar models can be used with other marginalized groups (i.e., ethnic/racial minorities).
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84988023192
T3 - Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL
SP - 451
EP - 458
BT - Exploring the Material Conditions of Learning
A2 - Lindwall, Oskar
A2 - Hakkinen, Paivi
A2 - Koschmann, Timothy
A2 - Tchounikine, Pierre
A2 - Ludvigsen, Sten
PB - International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
Y2 - 7 June 2015 through 11 June 2015
ER -