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Collaboration is one of the defining features of work and learning in the 21st century. Yet despite the proliferation of Google apps and devices for collaboration across North American school systems, the scope of research on student collaboration using Google technologies in elementary school settings is limited. This paper presents findings from two cases in grade five classrooms where teachers were experimenting with using Google Docs and Chromebooks in their literacy programs. Drawing on a conceptual framework of sociomaterial, complexity, and affect theories, the study offers insights for teachers to understand the complexities of collaboration with these technologies, and pedagogical implications for working with the magic and monsters of unintended effects in collaborative literacy practices.
Keywords: collaboration, Google Docs, elementary school, unintended effects
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This research explored how educators with limited programming experiences learned to design mobile apps through peer support and instructor guidance. Educators were positive about the sense of community in this online course. They also considered App Inventor a great web-based visual programming tool for developing useful and fully functioning mobile apps. They had great sense of empowerment through developing unique apps by using App Inventor. They felt their own design work and creative problem solving were inspired by the customized mobile apps shared by peers. The learning activities, including sharing customized apps, providing peer feedback, composing design proposals, and keeping design journals (blogging), complemented each other to support a positive sense of community and form a strong virtual community of learning mobile app design. This study helped reveal the educational value of mobile app design activities and the web-based visual programming tool, and the possibility of teaching/learning mobile app design online. The findings can also encourage educators to explore and experiment on the potential of incorporating these design learning activities in their respective settings, and to develop mobile apps for their diverse needs in teaching and learning.
Keywords: online learning, mobile app design, programming, App Inventor (AI), Virtual Learning Community (VLC), distance education
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This article investigates the results of a book sprint experience whose main objective was the development of instructional modules for an open textbook for the teaching of Spanish as a second language. Six graduate students at a public American university participated in the project for a week, working in pairs in the creation of activities that required the incorporation of the tenets of the dual pedagogical frameworks of performance- and literacy-based instruction (as realized through learning by design). Data were collected through both an opinion survey and the assessment of samples of the participants’ products. The results of the survey showed that graduate students felt that being part of the book sprint had been beneficial both at the professional and personal levels, but they had also experienced difficulties similar to those reported in previous studies. The products analyzed pointed to a lack of connection between the required pedagogical tenets and the materials developed, which has also been reported in existing works on pre- and in-service teachers as materials developers. The article discusses how these results could have been a consequence of the structure of the book sprint, and it offers recommendations for future activities of this kind.
Keywords: book sprints, open education, OER materials, second language pedagogy, graduate student professionalization
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Mind mapping, while a mystery for some, is useful to others. This article outlines the vocabulary, the principles, the means of production, the applications and the tools. Essentially, the author wishes to provide the reader with a better understanding of how mind mapping can be used in a professional setting, either generally or in a library setting. Suggestions to improve one's understanding of the subject are provided. A summary map of the contents of this article compliments this abstract.
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This article offers a criminological reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein based on the 1831 edition. It discusses the opposition between Dr. Victor Frankenstein's physiognomic prejudice and the creature's discourse designating social exclusion as the cause of its mischief. Frankenstein's accusations rely mostly on its creation's appearance, borrowing from Johann Kaspar Lavater's principles. The monstrous creature counteracts its maker's presumptions by interpreting its own criminal behaviour similarly to Christian Wolf's self-analysis in Schiller's short story “Der Verbrecher aus Verlorene Ehre.” A close reading of the circumstances of each of the monster's four crimes demonstrates how deeply its criminality is interlocked with social rejection caused by its own external deformity. Both perspectives adapt tropes that can be found in criminal biographies still reprinted in the 1810s. Though both positions are credible, I argue that the storyline supports the creature's view that the criminal might be a monster, but created by those it vengefully hurts. Throughout, I indicate when changes to Shelley's 1816-1817 draft were made to arrive to the 1831 wording, paying also attention to who effected them.
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One of the most significant attributes of digital computation is that it has disrupted extant work practices in multiple disciplines, including history. In this contribution, I argue that far from being a trend that should be resisted, it in fact should be encouraged. Computation is presenting historians with novel opportunities to express, analyze, and teach the past, but that potential will only be realized if scholars assume a new research mandate, that of design. For many historians, such a research agenda is likely to seem strange, if not beyond the pale. There are tasks that fall properly within the domain of the Historian's Craft and the design of workflows for digital platforms and expressive forms for digital narratives are not among them. In Section One, via the writings of Harold Innis, I make the case that a preoccupation with design is in fact very much part of Canada's historiographic tradition. In Section Two, I present an environmental scan of emerging technologies, and suggest that now is an opportune time to revive Innis' preoccupation with design. In the following two sections, I present the StructureMorph Project, a case study showing how historians can leverage the properties of digital form to realize their expressive, narrative, and attestive needs in the digital, virtual worlds that will become increasingly important platforms for representing, disseminating, and interpreting the past.
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This paper present results about the evaluation of a package. A pour Autre© is an interactive educational package composed by three tools (guide, DVD, interactive web site) developed to support the learning of social skills among child and young people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) aged between 6 and 17 years old. It addressed needs of autism persons and their parents and educators. An online survey was conducted and questionnaire was send by mail between March 2015 and February 2016 to develop a profile of users as well as evaluate their satisfaction in relation to the various elements of the kit. One hundred and five persons (N = 105) responded to the survey and twenty eight (n = 28) use the tools. In general, the users are satisfied with their experience (web site ergonomic and usability of tools) and consider the package to be effective for teaching social skills. Respondents suggest producing additional videos about different situations.
Keywords: habiletés sociales, trouble du spectre de l'autisme, vidéo, plateforme web interactive, social skills, autism spectrum disorders, video, interactive web site
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“No human reads your mail to target ads or other information without your consent.” This is an excerpt included in Google's Gmail Privacy Policy that explains the methodology underlying the interactive advertisement process incorporated into Google's web-based e-mail service. Google's inclusion of this assurance reveals a number of complex privacy concerns. As information technology continues to influence privacy on the Internet, the latter's viability as a legally protected right comes into question. The theme of this essay competition is the relation between law and cyberspace. In addressing the struggle faced by governments and industry experts to identify effective approaches for regulating emerging technologies, the author compares the effectiveness of legislation and industry self regulation aimed at protecting online privacy. Three central issues are considered: consent, burden of protection and enforcement. The analysis suggests that neither course is mutually exclusive and that a consolidated approach provides a more effective level of protection and a more malleable framework to meet future needs.
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Within translation studies, existing research on website translation and localization has tended to focus on technical, sociological, commercial and linguistic issues related to the websites of corporations or not-for-profit organizations. Less attention has been given to issues that arise when national, regional or local governments make their websites available in another language, either in whole or in part. To help address this gap, this article studies the Toronto.ca municipal website to discuss whether, how and why the City of Toronto offers translated information online. Drawing on data from the 2016 Canadian census and the city's translation policy documents, this article compares the city's linguistic profile with the kinds of information available on the city's website in languages other than English. The final section uses De Schutter's (De Schutter 2017) framework to study the City of Toronto's translation policies from a translation justice perspective, arguing that the policies largely focus on instrumental interests, with limited emphasis on identity interests, as evidenced by the Toronto.ca translation data. Some possible future research directions are also discussed.
Keywords: website translation, translation justice, translation policy, language policy, minority languages, traduction de sites Web, justice traductionnelle, politiques de traduction, politiques linguistiques, langues minoritaires, traducción de sitios web, equidad en la traducción, política de traducción, política lingüística, lenguas minoritarias