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When schools across this province were ordered to close on March 13, 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, classroom teachers could never have imagined the profound repercussions of this decision and the colossal impact this would have on both teachers and students across Quebec. Teachers scrambled to upgrade their technology skills as school boards quickly mobilized to provide much-needed technical support and hardware for teachers, students, and parents/guardians. More than ever, home and school needed to be connected. In a quick response to the urgent need to provide a continued opportunity for learning, the virtual classroom soon took centre stage.
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The publication of various frameworks on 21st-century information literacy and digital competency highlights the importance for all pupils at all education levels to develop these skills. The pervasiveness of digital literacy in the definitions of these competencies in the literature suggests that they are interrelated. A qualitative analysis of 73 international frameworks on these competencies revealed key trends, such as the need to master digital tools to perform various tasks. Information literacy, related to digital citizenship and digital collaboration, communication and sharing skills, is also frequently reported.
Keywords: Référentiel de compétences, compétences informationnelles, compétences numériques, compétences du XXIe siècle, littératie numérique, littératie informationnelle, 21st century skills, 21st-century skills framework, digital literacy, digital literacy framework, information literacy, information literacy framework
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being developed and implemented in healthcare. This presents privacy issues since many AI systems are privately owned and rely on data sharing arrangements for mass quantities of patient health information. We investigated the Canadian legal and policy framework focusing on regulation relevant to the potential for inappropriate use or disclosure of personal health information by private AI companies. This included analysis of federal and provincial legislation, common law and research ethics policy. Our evaluation of the various regulatory frameworks found that together they require private AI companies and their partners in healthcare implementation to meet high standards of privacy protection that prioritize patient autonomy, with limited exceptions. We found that healthcare AI systems are required to be consistent with the rules and foundational ethical norms enshrined in law and research ethics, even if this poses challenges to implementation. Data sharing arrangements must focus on tight integration with high levels of data security, strong oversight and retention of patient control over data.
Keywords: health law, privacy, artificial intelligence, bioethics, legislation, Canada, droit de la santé, vie privée, intelligence artificielle, bioéthique, législation, Canada
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This study focuses on students' perceptions of a quasi-unprecedented classroom situation during the Covid-19 pandemic. At the time of the research, conducted in a French high school in the United States between November 2020 and April 2021, the CM2 class (last year of elementary school in the French system) of a teacher, Marion, included 21 students. Among them, 19 attended face-to-face classes while two were kept at home by their parents to attend school remotely with self-study work (with Google Classroom) and synchronous class time (through videoconferencing). This co-modal situation became widespread during the pandemic and could occur again in the future. Comodality is one of the focal points of the "Français Plus" research project. Based on drawings and interviews with children, our study examines the object of students' attention in a situation where knowledge is strongly mediated by technology.
Keywords: comodalité, école primaire, attention, dessins d'enfants, comodality, elementary school, attention, children's drawings
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Text visualization is the technique of using graphs and charts to examine text as data. Often, these do not represent a text directly and instead display an output based on word counts, word sequences, and so on. This technique can provide insights into important keywords in a text, provide an overview of textual content, or reveal trends and patterns within one text or across many texts. This paper describes recent development of and experiments with several tools for the Grub Street Project to generate visualizations of eighteenth-century texts, especially in terms of the spatial relationships of words and entities on the pages of the original documents. Two examples are discussed in this article as test cases: Edward Ward's The London Spy Compleat, in Eighteen Parts (1703) and Alexander Pope's The Dunciad. With Notes Variorum (1729).
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During the first wave of COVID‑19, the uncertainty about a prospect vaccine combined with the constant media bombardment have fueled the fear of strict periods of confinement measures, creating a fertile ground for fake news and misleading social media debates. This paper studies how the public attention to certain pandemic-related topics and the social media activity of health and policymaker influencers impact the energy sector. Our findings suggest that during periods of growing attention to the term “Coronavirus”, social media activity of policymaker influencers exhibits a negative relationship with the energy sector. However, given the positive and scientific connotation, when the public attention to the term “Vaccine” increases, we observe a positive impact of international health organizations.
Keywords: ICT, Social media, COVID‑19, Public attention, Energy industry, technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC), Réseaux sociaux, COVID‑19, Attention du public, Industrie de l'énergie, Tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC), Redes sociales, COVID‑19, Atención pública, Industria de la energía