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The introduction of containment from March 17 to May 11, 2020, was sudden and imposed an unprecedented adaptation on teachers and their students. The CR of experience, in this article, is that of a pedagogical continuity set up with French students of bachelor 3rd year in one of the modules of preparation to the professions of teaching. The focus is on the necessary adaptations in terms of communicational issues, course materials and learning situations but also on the pitfalls and difficulties encountered and the contributions in terms of creativity that this may have generated. Finally, rather unexpectedly, we propose a reflection on the awareness of the importance of accompaniment in this context of health crisis.
Keywords: COVID-19, visioconférence, didactique, histoire, géographie, enseignement moral et civique, interactions, fracture, confinement, COVID-19, videoconferencing, didactic, history, geography, moral and civic teaching, interactions, fracture, lockdown
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This paper describes a pilot study in using Facebook as an alternative to a learning management system (LMS). The paper reviews the current research on the use of Facebook in academia and analyzes the differences between a Facebook group and a regular LMS. The paper reports on a precedent–setting attempt to use a Facebook group as a course website, serving as a platform for delivering content and maintaining interactions among the students and between the students and the lecturer. The paper presents findings from the students’ self-assessments and reflections on their experience. The students expressed satisfaction with learning in Facebook and willingness to continue using these groups in future courses.
Keywords: LMS, learning management systems, social networks
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How to think space in a digital era ? In the wake of the « spatial turn », we propose to combine the theory of editorialization and the reflection on space by means of a confrontation with Land and Sea, by the theoretician of geopolitics Carl Schmitt.
Keywords: Espace, imaginaire spatial, tournant spatial, Carl Schmitt, Terre et mer, éditorialisation, Space, spatial imaginary, spatial turn, Carl Schmitt, Land and Sea, editorialization
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In order to address the proliferation of imponderable and invisible spaces, this paper interrogates the persistence of the metaphor of “ether” in history. By theorizing the metaphor from a genealogical perspective, this brief inquiry focuses on transitions from one instance of the metaphor to another in order to highlight some of the sympathetic relations between late 19th century technoscientific discourses and early 21st century cybercultural discourses. Using both ether and metaphor, the author seeks other ways to investigate some of the latest conceptualizations of “space” fundamental to communication technologies.
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Far from being restricted to exchanges between experts, specialised knowledge is mediated to audiences with different levels of specialization, from scientific reviews to newspaper articles. This diversity constitutes an often-overlooked challenge for translators. As a matter of fact, while documentation and terminology are always crucial, translation decisions are based on communicative parameters as well as cognitive and linguistic criteria. Although it is self-evident that linguistic choices are determined by the proficiency level of the readership, few authors have attempted to specify what those choices are and how the correlation operates, most notably in popularization discourse, and none of them has considered potential differences between languages and cultural settings. The focus of the paper is a bilingual (French and Spanish) corpus study carried out on newspaper articles dealing with stem cell research and cloning published in four different geographic regions (France, Quebec, Spain, Argentina). An original methodology was implemented for data collection and analysis. The number and nature of expressions used to convey each concept were then analyzed. Discursive strategies widely assumed to be a hallmark of popularization, like definitions and explanations, were also taken into account. Indices of metaphorical conceptualization and the underlying modes of conceptualization were identified. This study provides concrete data to a debate that remains largely theoretical, and supports the conception of specialized communication as a continuum. The results go against well-established ideas about popularized texts, specially regarding the trademark status of “didactic features.” It seems imperative to acknowledge the heterogeneity of popularization and to consider the role of textual genre constraints in the way specialized knowledge is introduced. Furthermore, the data obtained seems to substantiate the recent questioning of the canonical view of popularization as a mere translation.
Keywords: traduction spécialisée, vulgarisation, dénomination, conceptualisation métaphorique, étude sur corpus, specialized translation, popularization, denomination, metaphorical conceptualisation, corpus study
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Immersion has always been a central program, in both the research and development of technical images and their consumption. As seen in various recent technological and biotechnological developments (masks, eyeglasses and facial interfaces, contact lenses and cornea interfaces, ocular implants and crystalline or retinal interfaces, cerebral implants and neuronal interfaces), the horizon of this program could well be the disappearance of the screen and incorporation of the interface, or what we might call a kind of neuronal cinema. It may oblige us to call into question the very concepts media, mediation and image. At the same time, we should interrogate the biotechnological utopia underlying it.