Ada Lovelace Day: Great Women in Technology

I was struggling trying to think of a great women in Technology whom I admire and would want to blog about how they have inspired me. It has been in the last few years that I myself have moved in to the digital world of technology as far as cyberspace and on line communities. I found I was getting stuck that I need to talk about women like Sherry Turkle, Donna Haraway, Lisa Nakamura which are all women who have contributed and are still contributing to society in their work. They all have published work. However I kept coming back to one woman who has inspired me in technology and she has not published any papers,article or books but she has impacted 100's of students a year for the last 22 years. She is a teacher and her name is Deanna Lomax. She currently teaches math at Chief Joseph middle school in Richland, Washington. She is a nationally certified and is constantly updating her skills and finding new ways to reach her students through the use of the latest technology. I have listed her blog http://www.blogger.com/profile/18423524771855199608 if you want to check out some of the stuff she is learning about so she can then implement this in her classroom. She is constantly going after grants to get Computers, Smartboards, Elmos. Anything that will enhance her teaching environment. She won the Bill and Melinda Gates scholarship a few years back which equipped her classroom with computers. To me that is an inspirational women who shares her love of technology and Math through her job as a teacher.

Digital Divide

I cannot believe it is after 5:00 where did the day go? I am still working out my final paper proposal but I do know it is going to be on the Digital Divide and how it affects more than the older generation. I am also going to connect it into the younger k-12 generation and how making them study to the test is making the gap in the digital divide wider.

More to come this next week as I research this area.

Good luck to the rest of you and I am looking forward to reading your posts.
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