<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Hilaire Nollette <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:metatecque@gmail.com" target="_blank">metatecque@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hmmm,<br>
</div>Because I come from a background of education, i may read between the lines where others don't...<br></div>They
need a Lab... All the good labs of the 90's that were built for the
schools have become sadly deprecated (why can't we have nice things?)<br>
</div>Noisebridge has a fully functional electronics lab, and then some.<br><br></div>I am hearing from educators all over the bay (and the US) that technical education is severely lacking in public-schools. <br><br></div>
Can we be that Gap filler? <br>I am happy to teach, and I know others are. <br></div><div>I see Noisebridge as a "sandbox" where we can develop a model that makes learning fun and easy. <br></div><br></div>Lemme see some positive feedback, please?<br>
<br></div>And Thank You,<br>Hiliare</div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I wish we had more people stepping up to address "all this" head on.</div><div style><br></div><div style>To be refreshingly blunt in comparison to the political niceties we're drowning in - The Gender Brainwashing DOES start in cases like deprecation of skills and substitution of cultural footbindings. I salute you for calling them out on it. Which earns you a "Well Done" award-for Leading By Example in this situation.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>Gender Bias is what I flatly call "Conduct Unbecoming Of Intelligent Beings. </div><div style><br></div><div style>To address a "What Next" positive feedback can start with this delicious linkfest:</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><a href="http://hackaday.com/2013/10/17/sparkfun-ponders-women-in-stem-fields/">http://hackaday.com/2013/10/17/sparkfun-ponders-women-in-stem-fields/</a><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>
I'm of a Headspace that also juggles gendering and ageing terms for readability over all else, and the subtle dissonances of such terms can indeed house some Culture Jamming comm paths:} Culture Jamming used properly can crack closed minds open by forcing critical thinking to become mandatory. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Yes- we CAN lose or gain some stylesheet points in some demographics.. but the greatest good for the greatest number has light and dark aspects to weigh carefully.</div><div style><br></div>
<div style> Are you- WE- reaching out to the mass of Females as a whole or a sub-niche? Are we seeking COHESIVE inclusion or just plonking another Clique into the deliciously anarchic stew called Noisebridge?</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>Hackerspace Moms and the Hacker Scouts are now past Fledgling status and IMHO-standing on their own earned merits. There's from their example a few stumbling blocks to pre-mitigate. And they are DAMNED huge fearsome ones to me... When would we have a properly Chaperoned&Curated block of time for kids to be introduced to their first "wow it lit up" event?? I may annoy a few complacent folks and get murmurs of yeah- needed to be said... But, Hiliare...You are facing an entrenched opposition to your project in the form of folks who want you to be LESS. And pending our species outgrowing such crap- our fight is that much harder.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style> You raised the query of educators using NB as a "Hands-On" site if I am reading you properly? Am I?</div><div style><br></div><div style>NB is tragically so *NOT* suited to be a minor child safe space 24/7... at the present time by MY standards as a GRANDFATHER!</div>
<div style><br></div><div style> Truth is as it is and either WE apply feedbackto make NB a place where my 11 year old daughter is safe alone there 24/7.. or we accept that reality of conditional safety as something to work around pending the glorious day when NB IS SAFE 24/7/365!</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>I felt a duty to raise this grim spot and wage Pogrom upon the Unsafety perps so we CAN have a girl's group BE safe. Anyone wishing to make constructive comment- have at it- Flame me OFF LIST PLEASE but for the love of GLub- let's not let Hiliare be run off by the Vulgarians we've been mollycoddling.. </div>
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