“The results indicate that there is a digital divide in terms of usage and access that favors female secondary school mathematics teachers,” states the article“Gender Digital Divide Among Secondary School Mathematics Teachers Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Uruguay.”
“If we focus on the group of teachers who used the platform the most during the pandemic, women are the ones who have increased their use, making the most of the resources provided by the course system to implement emergency remote learning,” explain Dr. Eduardo Rodríguez Zidán, Dr. Gustavo Bentancor Biagas, Dr. Martin Solari, Dr. Marina Melani, and Mag. Lucía Saldombide, authors of the publication.
This study examines gender-based digital divides in the use of the CREA platform by secondary school mathematics teachers in Uruguay, both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data provided by Ceibal, the researchers analyzed the online activity recorded on the CREA platform in mathematics courses taught in 2019 and 2020.
“The Gender Digital Divide Among Secondary School Mathematics Teachers Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Uruguay” was published in issue 36 of the Ibero-American Journal of Technology in Education and Education in Technology.
It was developed as part of the "Digital Technologies for Mathematics Education" project, funded by the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) and the Ceibal Foundation.