If schools build confidence then the rest will come - working toward gender equality in the culture will help a great deal. Boys to feel cool reading (now seriously lagging behind girls) and girls feeling free to be techie (or not obsess about wearing the right shoes to get the boy) will go far. Educators also need to adapt the curriculum to the realities of today's world - online education, media literacy, and integrating uses of technological tools across all subject not just learing how to write code - this brings education and confidence into the classroom.

Great points! I'm reminded of guysread.com , despite its overly gendered subject areas. What resources influence you re: technology integration?

research for a high profile forum we are doing to promote intergenerational value - spoke with ministers, parliamentarians, microsoft, cisco, facebook, the list goes on...thanks for posing the question and the site!