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Personal learning environments (PLEs) are Web 2.0 tools and services by which users’ access, construct, manage, and share educational contents in order to meet their learning needs. These environments enable users to manage their learning according to their own personal preferences. They further promote socialization and collaboration with their broad user networks and interaction facilities. In this study, with a case sample from a public university in Turkey, student teachers’ PLE use and their perceptions regarding these environments are examined. For data collection, the PLE Perception Scale and PLE Use Scale developed by the researchers were used. It was observed that all participants used various PLEs and found them easy and practical on the whole. However, it was found that this utilization mostly had the aim of access and sharing knowledge in learning, while use of constructing and managing it remained limited. Emailing, social networking, file sharing, video sharing, Internet searching, and social encyclopedias were found most commonly used PLEs. Our findings also show that gender and grade level do not have an effect on the perception and use of PLEs.
Keywords: personal learning environments, perception, use, preservice teachers
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Given the importance of knowing how to search, evaluate and use information on the Internet, this study aims to know the informational skills used by teachers in order to document, by observation, their mode of operation and their level of ease during a keyword research. This descriptive and exploratory research allowed the discovery of new research strategies as well as the adaptation and enrichment of an information skills model developed from existing models. In conclusion, we analyze these results in relation to existing research while offering avenues of recommendations for improving teacher training.
Keywords: Compétences informationnelles, stratégies de recherche, lecture à l'écran, modélisation, Information literacy skills, information search strategies, reading online, modelization
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The use of new technologies within research into interpreting quality has produced new tools that are expected to increase the number of subjects taking part in survey studies. The growth of Internet users has led to a rise of online questionnaires mainly as a result of their time saving advantages. This paper compares the response rate obtained using three different ways of presenting a questionnaire about quality expectations in interpreting to subjects: in person, via an invitation to take part in an online questionnaire and by including the questionnaire within the text of an email to the subjects. The results of this study show that the subjects tend to participate more when the questionnaire is administered in person. In general male participation was higher than female, but no significant difference was observed with respect to the method of administration. Regarding the particular field of knowledge, the group of subjects working in a scientific and technological area was the only one in which the response rate for the paper “in person” questionnaire was not notably higher than for the other methods.
Keywords: conduite d'enquête, niveau de participation, attentes, comparaison de méthodes, survey administration, level of participation, expectations, comparison of methods
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Cette recherche porte sur les manières dont les entités dominantes du web fabriquent le visible. Pour ce faire, la thèse examine les liens entre les aspirations utopiques de Google, Facebook et de la vision artificielle, les algorithmes spécifiques qu’ils développent, la relation qu’ils entretiennent avec les images, principalement photographiques, et leurs façons de moduler les visibilités. Afin de mener l’enquête sur les modalités de production, de présentation et d’acquisition du savoir visuel dans le web, l’approche théorique et méthodologique employée s’inspire de la sociologie de l’acteur-réseau, de l’étude féministe des sciences et inscrit des œuvres d’art dans le rôle d’analyseurs. L’œuvre hypermédiatique Image Atlas (2012) de Taryn Simon et Aaron Swartz installe l’examen de Google et de Google Images qui reconduisent les aspirations à l’accès …
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This article presents the results of a survey of the data base searching abilities of first-year education students. The methodology used was two-fold: a qualitative approach based on the direct observation of the students and a quantitative approach using a questionnaire. A total of 24 students participated in this project. The results indicate that the students experienced difficulties in the first stage of the research process, namely the definition of the information need. Therefore, it becomes apparent to improve their ability to define the topic to be researched.
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Being information literate is an essential skill for K-12 students in the age of Google. But learning how to search, evaluate and use information available on the Web often relies on their teachers' information literacy training. This study analyses how Quebec preservice teachers are trained to teach information literacy and how they foresee teaching it in schools. Results show that the initial training received is insufficient and that most preservice teachers will only teach basic information searching skills on the Web with Google. Results are discussed in light of the literature and recommendations are made to improve how preservice teachers are trained to teach information literacy.
Keywords: Compétences informationnelles, formation initiale, futurs enseignants, enseignement, Québec, Information literacy, initial training, preservice teachers, teaching, Quebec
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As part of the research project « Art urbain, art public et cultures numériques : des publics, des sites, des trajets », we study the public’s concrete actions on art, observing the circulation of artwork photographs online and the resulting gestures of enthusiasts. Our observations begin with the publication of artwork photographs on Flickr, which allows us to analyze the visibility of the images and encourage their reuse, to then trace how these photographs are reproduced elsewhere with a tool that automates the search by Google Image. The images are found on various websites that we then geolocate in order to map them. In this article, we investigate the online lives of photographs of Nancy Holt, Walter de Maria and Robert Smithson’s land art pieces. Between the fixity of works anchored in the landscape, the mobility of online photographs and the movements of traveling publics who in turn publish on Instagram, we are witnessing a becoming-destination of these works. The use of digital tools and theorizations allows us to renew our thinking on art’s circular logics of production, propagation and validation.