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Oral fluency in the target language is an essential skill for newcomers to participate in conversations in a variety of real-life target language contexts (Derwing, 2017). However, this skill is underutilized in the classroom and the materials designed to do so are not always optimal (Rossiter et al., 2010). This is no exception in the French language and literacy courses offered to newcomers in Quebec (Fillion, 2021). In light of these needs, we propose two prototypical oral fluency development activities for that do not require the written modality nor metalinguistic analyses. First, we propose an adaptation of the 4/3/2 technique, which has been shown to help learners develop fluency. Then, we present the "intonaisance" technique, which we developed based on research showing the importance of teaching formulaic sequences and intonation, and we offer an example of a classroom activity using this technique.
Keywords: développement de l'aisance, personnes immigrantes adultes, cours d'alphafrancisation, compréhensibilité, activités pédagogiques, fluency development, adult immigrants, alphafrancisation courses, comprehensibility, pedagogical activities
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As Virginia Woolf said, our world is in the midst of childbirth. Multifaceted change is underway in cultural institutions, libraries, museums and, generally, in all places where knowledge is created. Change is transforming our work habits, practices and relationships with our users. How do we evaluate and highlight our place in the knowledge society? How do we reconcile change with the important notions of truth, cultural and social solidarity as well as sharing, that forceful catalyst of human dignity?Harnessing the mass of data to make them reliable and truthful and taking ownership of new technologies in order to build a free and open tender are part of the challenge to be met by those whose primary mission is to build a knowledge base, that is accessible, sincere, and altruistic for all.The change we are currently experiencing is the result of four major events in human history: the transformation of the financial, economic and commercial map of the world; the unfolding of a digital era that has forever changed the relationship of human beings to knowledge; the demographic expansions in Asia and Africa that will soon disrupt the distribution of the world's population; and, finally, the colossal environmental issues that our society must immediately face.Beginning with the first developments in Québec society and followed by an internationally renowned artificial intelligence laboratory, history is created with the information used by the human mind to which it imparts a vital energy. Change must be undertaken by sharing information in all its forms and with all, which means putting an end to the scandal that is illiteracy in our learned and connected societies. This also requires accelerating the transition to a digital civilisation, by establishing a digital legal deposit, the scanning of heritage collections and the creation of avant-garde libraries that provide a space for the innovative and creative laboratories such as the future Saint-Sulpice library.We also have to think about the future of creation. In an era of robotics, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and big data, what does the future hold for the safeguard, the production and the sharing of knowledge?
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Keywords: compétences globales, compétence numérique, écriture collaborative, école en réseau, coélaboration de connaissances
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Keywords: relation école-famille immigrante, situation de grand retard scolaire, expérience socioscolaire, collaboration école-famille-communauté, recherche-action
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On May 31, 2023, we showcased the Feminist XResistance project at the Women and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes (WGSRF) conference under the apt thematic “Take Back the Future.” The project started on July 9, 2022, when a group of international, interdisciplinary, early career feminist scholars convened on Zoom for the Feminist Digital Methods (FDM) Drop-in Virtual Lab hosted by York University’s Centre for Feminist Research (CFR). The drop-in took place two weeks after the United States Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion and became a digital space to express our fears and anger over rising gender essentialist fascism, worries about the future, and to imagine feminist digital methods for resistance. In this reflection and commentary, we share our observations and processes for the Feminist XResistance project, starting with our first exploratory workshop, our co-creative analysis and outputs, the development of our AR installation, and, finally, our conclusions and insights.
Keywords: activism, militantisme, augmented reality, réalité augmentée, méthodes numériques, digital methods, résistance personnifiée, embodied resistance, personnification, embodiment, extended reality, réalité étendue, féminisme, feminism, feminist community, communauté féministe, feminist resistance, résistance féministe, interdisciplinaire, interdisciplinary, recherche-création, research-creation
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The objective of this article is to analyze how the disinformation industry, understood as organized and systematic practices aimed at disseminating false information with the aim of manipulating public perception, has eroded trust in information, especially with the collaboration of socio-digital networks and artificial intelligence (AI).Technological advances amplify the speed and sophistication with which disinformation spreads, making it difficult to identify and counteract false information, which could be identified with adequate digital literacy. With the use of algorithms and big data analysis, AI is used to personalize political messages, segment audiences and predict electoral trends, seeking not only to persuade voters, but also to create an immersive and emotionally attractive narrative. To do this, the article shows cases of deceiving the audience by presenting false information in a realistic way.Thanks to the formidable development of AI and the advent of synthetic humans, we are witnessing the profound transformation of the entertainment industry and, shortly, political marketing.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, disinformation, Internet, socio-digital networks, government, fake news, entertainment, synthetic humans
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The present article employed McLuhan’s figure/ground distinction to probe the boundaries of artificial intelligence (AI) and computation. In popularizing the intellectual tradition of media ecology, Marshall McLuhan warned scholars that confusing the figure (i.e. the content or software) with the ground (i.e. the medium of communication or hardware) would lead to inadequate and incorrect analyses and appraisals of the effects of our media technologies. However, the present article contends that scholars of all stripes are at risk of falling prey to that exact mistake with regards to AI. The present article argues that AI, though having appeared as a touchstone issue in media and communication studies recently, represents the figure, whereas the computational hardware is the ground. Moreover, with continued development of quantum computation technologies, the ground upon which our AI programs rest is in the infantile stages of undergoing a revolutionary change. In sum, this article probes the significance of AI and Quantum computation for the coming decades.
Keywords: Figure/Ground, Marshall McLuhan, Media Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computation
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The AI hype cycle has come for scholarly publishing. This essay argues that the industry’s feverishーif mostly aspirationalーembrace of artificial intelligence should be read as the latest installment of an ongoing campaign. Led by Elsevier, commercial publishers have, for about a decade, layered a second business on top of their legacy publishing operations. That business is to mine and process scholars’ works and behavior into prediction products, sold back to universities and research agencies. This article focuses on an offshoot of the big firms’ surveillance-publishing businesses: the post-ChatGPT imperative to profit from troves of proprietary “training data,” to make new AI products andーthe essay predictsーto license academic papers and scholars’ tracked behavior to big technology companies. The article points to the potential knowledge effects of AI models in academia: Products and models are poised to serve as knowledge arbitrators, by picking winners and losers according to what they makevisible. I also cite potential knock-on effects, including incentives for publishers to roll back open access (OA) and new restrictions on researchers’ access to the open web. The article concludes with a call for a coordinated campaign of advocacy and consciousness-raising, paired with high-quality, in-depth studies of publisher data harvestingーbuilt on the premise that another scholarly-publishing world is possible. There are many good reasons to restore custody to the academy, the essay argues. The latest is to stop our work from fueling the publishers’ AI profits.
Keywords: academic publishing, artificial intelligence, data mining, prediction products, surveillance publishing
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