Gender Differences in Education

See all videos on authenticeducating.com Lauren uses an authentic educating tool - a concept map - for a panel discussion in Dr. Robert Leahy's education course at Stetson University, to assess the gender differences in boys' and girls' brains. Based on an article in James Noll's Taking Sides

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Education

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• gender differences
• concept map
• vee diagram
• authentic educating
• Robert Leahy
• Stetson University
• D.B. Gowin
• Josephy Novak
• Learning How to Learn

[TrueBlueCanuck]

it's interesting how girls do better than boys in school but it's always the men who end up inventing this

[fixt100]

@mrgimp420 because thats when they started to change the classes to suit how women learn not men....and they justified this by quoting university entrance by women being lower than men at the time....

[mrgimp420]

I think it is odd that co-ed schooling was not detrimental to males until the decades after the feminist movement. I think that is a fact worth pointing out before we decide gender segregation is required in schooling, Perhaps the rise in fatherless single mother homes might be detrimental to a young males development? Maybe you shouldnt be so quick to say that boys just have 'less space' in their brains. Afterall, who invented and designed the computer you are on? The camera you are using?

[MrGrandDragon]

Boys need to have male teachers without female interference.

Simple

[rad7610884]

Parents are takling their chilkdren out of single sex classrooms.A friend complained that her daughter was lost in the girls class because she was expected to sit still and read her way through every subject.This is bunk.

[Thalanox]

@Thalanox [...continued2...] plenty of tasks that boys will be better than girls at in general. The verbal description for the "rest state" in boys' minds, was completely negative in tone.

[Thalanox]

@Thalanox The "less brain space" is verbally explained as the boy's mind being used less for verbal functions and more for spatial mechanical functions. This is not a deficiency, as the chart label and verbal explanation (to a lesser extent) implies, it is just a neural characteristic that happens to be a part of boys' brains. This characteristic means that boys will be worse off on some types of tasks than girls in general, but it also means that there are plenty of tasks that [...continued..]

[Thalanox]

I noticed that on the diagram you list two bonuses in the differences between girl's minds (two sections of the brain that are larger), but on the side for boy's minds, you list one negative (less "brain space") and one neutral aspect (refreshes during a "rest state").

The verbal description for the girls side of the mind matched well with what the diagram said, but the description for what the boy's characteristics meant did not match up quite as well in tone. [...continued...]

[Thalanox]

@nickloverchick Yes, I noticed. It looks like it was supposed to be a placeholder with space for comments to be added later. It's a whole two minutes of no content.

[nickloverchick]

um is it just me or has anyone else noticed the video doesn't work at 4:49 and at 5:49? the video is very interesting otherwise, thank you!