On Ms. L's classroom wall she has a "Wall of Fame" where there are pictures of inspirational people. She has four gold frames and if students do something amazing they get to appear on the wall with all the other greats throughout time. Ada Lovelace is on the wall because of her work with computers at a time when women were supposed to stay at home and sew or read the literature her father Lord Byron produced. We liked Ada and like her wanted to do something epic - so we decided to break down some divides like she did - only now it is a case of smashing the digital divide and closing the gender gap. If young people took on the role of teacher to help train older people how to use the Internet, then that would be two barriers for the price of one!
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