What are your facet values when using software? What's one situation when your facet values might change? How did identifying your facet values affect your understanding of how you use software?

What are your facet values when using software? What's one situation when your facet values might change? How did identifying your facet values affect your understanding of how you use software?

What cognitive styles do you use to interact with technology? PRE-REQ: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/87536 LAST UPDATE: Changed title

Reflection assignment about cognitive styles used to interact with technology. Includes reflection questions about relating to the GenderMag personas.

Reflection assignment about cognitive styles used to interact with technology. Includes reflection questions about relating to the SESMag personas.

What are your facet values when using software? What's one situation when your facet values might change? How did identifying your facet values affect your understanding of how you use software?

Although CS Education researchers and practitioners have found ways to improve CS classroom inclusivity, few researchers have considered inclusivity of online CS education. We are interested in two such improvements in online CS education- besides being inclusive to each other, online CS students also need to be able to create inclusive technology.

Do you sometimes feel that you do not belong in this program, or some of its courses? The instructors assure you that you do belong! To help combat that sense of imposter syndrome that you might be feeling, let's explore the notion that your cognitive styles of learning are similar to your peers' learning styles.

You may already know that OSU and other universities have studied course materials and technical tools to make improvements that level the playing field amongst you and your peers. Programs such as Cognitive Style Heuristics and GenderMag/InclusiveMag study differences in how people problem-solve while learning new technical skills. The projects' core methods of finding bias bugs in software and materials is to apply personas that represent different sets of cognitive facets.

Explore the Facets and Personas by clicking on the tabs at the top, then analyze which persona fits you best, by taking the Survey.

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What cognitive styles do we use to interact with technology? The GenderMag Project has identified five cognitive facets we bring to our use of technology.

What cognitive styles do we use to interact with technology? The SESMag Project has identified six cognitive facets we bring to our use of technology.

A complete homework assignment in which students (1) create a paper prototype of a software design, (2) reflect on their GenderMag cognitive styles, (3) evaluate their prototype using heuristics based on GenderMag cognitive styles, and (4) revise their prototype.

You can use an iframe to embed this interactive tool into websites. Students can use the slider to select the cognitive styles they use to interact with technology. If they need to submit their cognitive styles to you, they can take a screenshot.

Active learning lecture involving identifying cognitive styles for technology usage. Includes team cognitive styles discussion. LAST UPDATE: Changed cover image

Example of how to introduce cognitive styles to students, student teams, or any group. Cognitive styles = cognitive differences influencing how people prefer to interact with technology. Applicable and adaptable to engineering, computing, technology, computer science, college-level, high school, and corporate teams. Icebreaker. Diversity awareness. Theory of Mind. Meta-cognition.

Example of how instructors can share their cognitive styles with their class, with template.