At a glance
go_girl: code+create is a project at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, run in partnership with the Oxfordshire County Council's Early Intervention Service. In line with Oxford’s targets in its Access Agreement with the Office for Fair Access, this interdisciplinary project complements existing programmes aimed at widening access to the University of Oxford, but tackles the problem in a fundamentally new way using technology. The research was originally supported by the University of Oxford IT Innovation Challenges Seed Fund and has received subsequent funding from Goldman Sachs Gives.
Author Archives: Paige Mustain
Session 4: Relationships & Being safe online
This week we focused on relationships. After our routine check-in we jumped right in by discussing what makes up both healthy and unhealthy relationships. For healthy relationships we found that trust, support, compassion and being able to banter without taking … Continue reading
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Session 0: First session for year 2 of go_girl!
We’re so thrilled to be back with a new group of ambitious young women and had our first session of the year. We spent the session getting to know each other through different ice breaker activities, discussing everyone’s expectations … Continue reading
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Session 16: Pseudocode and Udacity
We were a bit low on attendance today with only half of the group attending, but we still carried on with our introduction to coding. We did an icebreaker where we paired off and wrote a sequence of codes for … Continue reading
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Session 15: Intro to Coding
Today was our first day back from the holiday break and the start of our coding phase, the last phase of go_girl. It was really great to see everyone and hear how the break was. We received our go_girl t-shirts … Continue reading
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Session 13: Digital Wildfire Projects Progress
In today’s session we focused on finishing the Digital Wildfire projects so the young women could edit and put the finishing touches on them next week before they submit them next Thursday. They made great progress on their projects and … Continue reading
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Session 12: Digital Wildfire Discussion: what does it mean to be a good digital citizen?
Today we had Helena from the Computer Science Department come talk to us for half of the session about the Digital Wildfire project. The young women had the opportunity to engage with her on issues of digital citizenship … Continue reading
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Session 11: Finances, Documentary Editing, and Digital Wildfire
This week we started the session off with a lesson on finances where the young women learned about managing their money and about the risks of short term cash loans. We then continued with the individual projects and began … Continue reading
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Session 10: Go Girl Goes to the Job Fair: Interviews, Filming and iPad Projects
Today was exciting and productive as we had a full day of activities. We all went to a job fair where the young women had the opportunity to interview employers while filming with their iPads. The interviews turned out really … Continue reading
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Session 9: Individualised iPad Projects: Photography, Gaming and Video Blogs!
This was our first week back after the young women’s half-term break. Today’s session was focused on selecting individualised projects for each of the young women to carry out on their iPads for the next couple of weeks. We went … Continue reading
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Session 8: iPads are Here! iMovie Fun
This week was a really exciting Go Girl session because we received our iPads! We spent most of today’s session setting them up then we used them to film new short videos and edited them. The videos were quite diverse, … Continue reading
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Session 7: Introduction to short filmmaking and video editing
We continued with our digital skills and digital storytelling phase in today’s session, which was focused on short filmmaking and video editing. Building on the previous task of taking pictures throughout their day, last week we asked everyone to shoot … Continue reading
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Session 5: Addiction and Mindfulness
In today’s session, the last one for the life skills development and mindfulness phase, we focused on addiction. This topic again stemmed from earlier discussions we had this summer with our Go Girls about what they thought would be helpful … Continue reading
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Session 4: Dealing with Anger and Aggression
The themes and goals of our sessions for this first phase come from a combination of relevancy for the wider goals of Go Girl and the particular interests of our young women. This week’s session on dealing with anger and … Continue reading
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Session 3: How Values Shape our Relationships
An article we recently tweeted discussed the importance of understanding the processes and forces shaping our values and aspirations in the context of “coding culture” which connects nicely with a key aspect of this first phase of Go Girl. There … Continue reading
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Session 2: Communication Skills
Today’s session was focused on communication skills. Communication is fundamental for us to not only express our interests and aspirations but also to help foster healthy relationships, which is next week’s topic. It’s been shown that level of educational aspirations … Continue reading
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Session 1: Values and Aspirations
We’re officially underway with the first phase of our project, which is dedicated to learning about each other and our values and aspirations. We had our first meeting since returning from summer holiday just last week. During the session we … Continue reading
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