2. How to Teach

Courses and Content GenderMag can Integrate With

GenderMag can be part of any CS course---including HCI, Software Engineering and UI design---and courses in other fields.

Since GenderMag rests on personas and cognitive walkthroughs, GenderMag can be a good way of teaching those topics.

You can also use GenderMag to teach students about inclusive design and underrepresented users, for UI evaluation, and for enhancing student team dynamics and self-discovery.

Example curriculum points that GenderMag can fit into:

• HCI/User-Center Design and Testing and SE/Requirements Engineering (ACM CS Curricula 2013)

• Software Engineering - Software Design (HCI topics), and Software Verification and Validation (usability topics) (ACM SE Curricula 2014)

• Software - Software/Program Verification (D.2.4) (1998 ACM Computing Classification System)

Not sure why you want to teach the GenderMag Method yet or what skills it will teach? Visit our Why Teach/What Skills? page

Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Inclusive Design

We have research-based advice for how to teach inclusive design.

Starter Packs for Developing a Curriculum

Ready to add GenderMag to your courses? Use our starter packs to help you integrate Gendermag into preexisting curriculum.

Videos from Our Teaching Workshop

We did a workshop for faculty about integrating GenderMag into CS and IT courses. The videos and handouts are available on this site.

Other Helpful Materials

1. For teaching the GenderMag cognitive walkthrough method (including personas): Familiarize yourself with the GenderMag Method: http://gendermag.org/gendermag.php

And download editable versions of the personas and forms here.

2. For teaching the GenderMag heuristic evaluation: Familiarize yourself with the GenderMag Cognitive Style Heuristics: https://gendermag.org/flyers_handouts.php

3. Feel free to download any of our teaching materials from this wiki. We have lecture slides, homework, tips and gotcha's (more formally, PCK) contributed by educators who teach GenderMag, and more. (See our navigation bar.)

Tips on Gradually Teaching GenderMag

If you want to lead up in earlier courses to teaching GenderMag ideas in a later course :

1. Introduce the idea of personas in an early course (Lecture slides section has a module).

2. Pick a persona (e.g., Abi or Tim), and have the students use that persona as their target population for one of their programming assignments. (No need to dig into foundations yet.)

3. In a subsequent course, have them to continue to use the personas (e.g., Abi or Tim), but add having them explain how they particularly targeted their program to be a good fit to the persona.

4. In a subsequent course, have them use both Abi and Tim, explaining how their program supports both personas.

5. In a subsequent course, introduce the foundations behind Abi and Tim.

6. In a subsequent course, have them use the full method, as per below).

Let us know how your class went on our Slack Channel (email us for an invite! gendermag.method@gmail.com). We hope you'll contribute back any of the materials you used/changed/created that worked well for you by emailing us

Teaching the GenderMag Cognitive Walkthrough

For teaching the GenderMag cognitive walkthrough method (including personas): Familiarize yourself with the GenderMag Method: http://gendermag.org/gendermag.php

The image below gives a brief overview of how to run a session:

Materials for teaching the cognitive walkthrough

• To get the cognitive walkthrough forms, personas and learn more details download the GenderMag kit from the form below (and download editable versions of the personas and forms here):