April can be crazy stressful with final projects, essays, and exams. My advice? Visit every blooming cherry tree on UBC campus and invite in the fresh smell of Spring. The extra oxygen you receive from deep breathing may even help you do better on your exam :o) Good luck!
Here's one for you to think about. Ali Carr-Chellman speaks about the need to capture boys' attention in classrooms by adding video games. But is she describing a true gender difference or the need to capture ALL students attention by updating teaching technologies, methods, and capturing the imagination of ALL students. What do you think?
The Gender Companion, copyright 2011 – Dr. Jessica Motherwell McFarlane, Ph.D. This blog is a companion site for the Psychology of Gender Online, UBC. Creative commons attribution, non-commercial sharing only (translation: feel free to quote me in context or use this entry but please always credit me for my work, thanks.)http://thegendercompanion.blogspot.com/ See also Psyc 320 course description: http://ctlt.ubc.ca/distance-learning/courses/psyc/psyc320/
Are you stuck for a gender topic to journal about? How about this topic: here is a video link shared with our class by Wenny C (thank you!) about Abercrombie executive's marketing a padded bikini top for very young girls. It is easy to see what is wrong with this product. But my guess is that Abercrombie's owners are betting there are unconscious and persuasive complexities at work in the relationships between the young-insecure-girls and their parents-with-purchasing-power that makes this sexualized marketing potentially lucrative for the company owners. Or is this just an outrageous scheme to grab consumers attention? After much controversy, company owners have stopped marketing the padded swimsuit to preteens (news article, "Abercrombie padded bikini for preteens stirs up fuss")
So here is your (optional) journal prompt: get your journal and pen, clear your mind, tune into YOUR self, and then watch the following video. Pay close attention to YOUR feelings and thoughts as you watch the news cast. When you are done, write about YOUR whole experience of and reaction to this video. Ready, set, go write ...
Joanna Blakely claims that our use of social media (in which women significantly surpass men's use) will cause us to care less about gender and more about what a person "likes." But do you believe her predictions? Will gender become obsolete or not -- comment below to add YOUR prediction ...
The Gender Companion, copyright 2011 – Dr. Jessica Motherwell McFarlane, Ph.D. This blog is a companion site for the Psychology of Gender Online, UBC. Creative commons attribution, non-commercial sharing only (translation: feel free to quote me in context or use this entry but please always credit me for my work, thanks.)http://thegendercompanion.blogspot.com/ See also Psyc 320 course description: http://ctlt.ubc.ca/distance-learning/courses/psyc/psyc320/
This former-prison-guard-now-police-chief shares her wisdom and shows her courage to make changes. I was impressed by her common sense and effective assertive style.
Women and men receive constant messages to be "perfect." But we all know the "perfect man" and the "perfect woman" don't exist. Today I am sharing this great speech by J.K. Rowling about the great importance of making mistakes, experiencing failure, finding another way, and using your imagination to make a better world.
The Gender Companion, copyright 2011 – Dr. Jessica Motherwell McFarlane, Ph.D. This blog is a companion site for the Psychology of Gender Online, UBC. Creative commons attribution, non-commercial sharing only (translation: feel free to quote me in context or use this entry but please always credit me for my work, thanks.)http://thegendercompanion.blogspot.com/ See also Psyc 320 course description: http://ctlt.ubc.ca/distance-learning/courses/psyc/psyc320/
There is so much love in this video made by Pixar employees. This video is for any youth who faces bullying for being GLBT or just "Being Different" -- and for the folks who love them.
The Gender Companion, copyright 2011 – Dr. Jessica Motherwell McFarlane, Ph.D. This blog is a companion site for the Psychology of Gender Online, UBC. Creative commons attribution, non-commercial sharing only (translation: feel free to quote me in context or use this entry but please always credit me for my work, thanks.)http://thegendercompanion.blogspot.com/ See also Psyc 320 course description: http://ctlt.ubc.ca/distance-learning/courses/psyc/psyc320/
The Gender Companion, copyright 2011 – Dr. Jessica Motherwell McFarlane, Ph.D. This blog is a companion site for the Psychology of Gender Online, UBC. Creative commons attribution, non-commercial sharing only (translation: feel free to quote me in context or use this entry but please always credit me for my work, thanks.)http://thegendercompanion.blogspot.com/ See also Psyc 320 course description: http://ctlt.ubc.ca/distance-learning/courses/psyc/psyc320/
