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Green Life Matters Podcast – A3
A3 – How an idea became global with mobile collaboration Dear colleagues, Following the global COVID 2022 pandemic, I took on a challenge with my students: we became a paperless classroom. Although we were back in class physically after almost two years of online teaching, I wanted to keep what is positive in this new […]
Week 8 – Podcasting (A2)
Hello dear colleagues, For our Open Educational Resource (OER), we wanted to narrow our topic and explore three current aspects of the mobile culture of podcasting which can have a significant impact on education. We started from the hypothesis that the relationship of a monologue-type podcast with its listener, favored by listening in their headphones, […]
LGBTQIA+ Visibility on Mobile Technology – A1
Queer The Air My critical analysis explores the queer presence on the mobile culture and its often positive and sometimes negative influences. Many apps and platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and Twitter increase the visibility of the LGBTQIA+ community. For some users of mobile technologies, it is an opportunity to find answers to questions related […]
Gamification for Sex-Education
Gamification is popular in education and an excellent source of motivation. During my research, I came across the article “Digital Escape Rooms as Game-Based Learning Environments: A Study in Sex Education” published on January 18, 2022 in the journal Multimodal Technologies and Interactions. The article explores the impact of this type of game on learning […]
Learning about the past for today’s inclusion
When it comes to identity, and especially gender identity and expression, the subject is still taboo in many communities around the world. Today, thanks to social media, models, often public figures, from the sporting or artistic world, come out of the closet and share their personal story with the aim of inspiring young and less […]
3D scanners in wartime
Here is a great example of today’s mobile technology that offers the opportunity to save buildings from the past… for the future! With this high-tech portable scanner, it becomes possible to move quickly in inhospitable places, where every minute counts to collect as much 3D data as possible in order to save historic buildings with […]
Gender-neutral voice on Siri
The Personal digital assistants on our phone like Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri have become popular and much improved over the past ten years. Whether in the car or strolling the streets of the city, no need to focus your gaze on the screen and two thumbs on the keyboard, just speak. It is fast, […]
It’s me, Seb!
Hello my new learning family! My name is Sébastien and I am from Québec City, Canada. I have been teaching French language and literature to high school students for several years and I am a coordinator, workshop leader and consultant for the International Baccalaureate (IB). These roles allow me to share with teachers from several […]