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"Does anyone still listen to CDs?" The presentation aims to introduce the operation of our Music Collection by providing qualitative and quantitative data linked to loans, library visits, online repositories with music content, music programs and workshops. Fundamentally, our Music Collection has a value-preserving function linked to processing, preserving, and presenting the documents of local music life in a spectacular form. Virtual exhibitions based on digitized documents, various databases, and knowledge repositories are good tools for organizing knowledge. People can also be introduced to these contents during library programs (e.g., lectures, sessions, and competitions). Due to the three pillars – knowledge organization, preservation of value, and community building – our Music Collection is a place where people return to listen to music on-site in a comfortable armchair while reading their favourite magazine. Due to the ever-changing world, we must apply innovative approaches, react proactively, and adapt to changes (an example of this could be our Creative Studio). The main purpose of this study is to describe the music-related activities of a particular library (Katona József Library, Kecskemét, Hungary); it is descriptive work and does not aim to compare the data and results with those of other libraries.
Keywords: music collection, knowledge organization, value preservation, community building
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This article details a pedagogical inquiry research project, Crafting Pedagogies with(in) Suspension: Viral Pedagogies in COVID times in Early Childhood Education, where educator co-researchers collaborated with a pedagogist-researcher to explore how we might craft early childhood education pedagogies relevant to pandemic times. In particular, we trace how questions of community-making emerged as quotidian conceptions of community failed in the conditions of the pandemic. Thinking with the question “how much snot is too much snot?”—a question educators were asked to assess as a marker of community participation—we share three tensions of community-making: policing bodies, normalcy, and community-making as an ongoing process. Importantly, we work to share our pedagogical thinking with these tensions, asking how they create different possibilities for making community with children and families in educational contexts.
Keywords: pedagogical inquiry research, recherche d'enquête pédagogique, viral pedagogies, pédagogies virales, early childhood education, éducation de la petite enfance, community-making, création d'une communauté
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Internet algorithms influence the news we read, the products we buy, the music we listen to, the people we interact with, and even the words we use to communicate. Our preferences, beliefs, perceptions, and behaviours are all shaped by algorithmic processes, threatening our capacities for self-awareness and self-formation. What’s more, algorithms operate smoothly and imperceptibly under the surface of our postdigital existence. How can we begin to make sense of our relationships with algorithms, knowing that they operate beyond the limits of perception? How can we reconsider the human-algorithm relationship as a way of opening new possibilities of being? Using a/r/tographic inquiry, I addressed these questions through a months-long process of walking, writing, and weaving, revealing insights that may help illuminate a path toward living with the complexities and contradictions while hanging on to the parts of ourselves that remain resistant to domination.
Keywords: a/r/tography, algorithms, walking, weaving, agency, entanglement, self-formation
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This experimental study investigates the impact of ChatGPT-simplified authentic texts on university students’ reading comprehension, inferencing, and reading anxiety levels. A within-subjects design was employed, and 105 undergraduate English as a foreign language (EFL) students engaged in both original and ChatGPT-simplified text readings, serving as their own controls. The findings reveal a significant improvement in reading comprehension scores and inferencing scores following ChatGPT intervention. However, no significant change in reading anxiety levels was observed. Results suggest that ChatGPT simplification positively influences reading comprehension and inferencing, but its impact on reading anxiety remains inconclusive. This research contributes to literature on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in education and sheds light on ChatGPT’s potential to influence language learning experiences within higher education contexts. The study highlights the practical application of ChatGPT as a tool for helping students engage in authentic text readings by making text more comprehensible. Based on the findings, several multifaceted implications that extend to various stakeholders in the field of language education are provided.
Keywords: artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, simplification, reading, language teaching
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The release of ChatGPT has marked the dawn of a new information revolution that will transform how people communicate and make meaning. However, to date, little is known about the implications of ChatGPT for L2 composition instruction. To address this gap, the present study uses a systematic review design to synthesize available research on the educational potentials of ChatGPT as an instructional assistant, outline the implications of these potentials for L2 writing instruction, and discuss their practical applications. The findings, based on a meta-analysis of 42 research articles, demonstrate that ChatGPT can enhance L2 writing instruction by boosting learners’ motivation, automating instructional tasks, and offering instantaneous, personalized feedback to learners. These findings have important implications for harnessing the instructional potential of generative AI in L2 writing classes.
Keywords: artificial intelligence, artificial neural network, L2 writing, AI applications, chatbots
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The issues related to access to financing are central to debates worldwide, especially in Africa. This article aims to analyze the effects of access to financing on the performance of female small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Republic of Congo. To achieve this, we used primary data from 11,105 businesses from the “Recensement” (census) of very small, small and medium enterprises and self-employed workers, conducted by the “Institut nationale de la statistique” (INS, 2017) of the Republic of Congo in 2017. The estimates are based on the instrumental variables two-stage least squares method. The results obtained show that access to financing is a favourable factor for the performance of female businesses in the Congo and lead to recommendations of economic policy for inclusion, training, and incentive.
Keywords: Financing, Financement, SME, PME, women, femmes, Congo, Congo, performance, performance
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The digital platform economy, driven by the advent of mobile Internet and breakthrough technologies such as cloud computing, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence, has become a prominent economic paradigm since the early 2000s. These platforms are reshaping the landscape of labour, serving as intermediaries for the provision of goods and services, and they pose significant challenges to conventional employment and social safety nets. This article explores the origins, development and impacts of digital platforms on work, based on a review of the literature on the subject and on empirical data. The article begins by outlining the emergence of digital platforms, their various forms and the extent of the platform work phenomenon. It then describes the characteristics of platform workers and their employment conditions. Based on data from a survey of young Quebecers working on the Uber and Uber Eats platforms, the article then analyses why they choose this type of employment. The conclusion raises the challenges posed by digital platforms to the regulation of work.
Keywords: Work, Travail, plateformes numériques, digital platforms, impacts, impacts, working conditions, conditions de travail
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The pandemic transformed higher education, making it clear that the future of education lies in the use of technology. Recognizing this development, this study examined the blended learning experiences of students and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to propose targeted strategies for the evolving “phygital” (physical + digital) university ecosystem. Drawing on existing literature, it explores three critical dimensions of the educational experience: technology, the teaching-learning process, and social interaction. Following a transcendental phenomenological approach, the study used a convenience sample of 10 students and 10 teachers, selected based on the saturation criterion. Using Leximancer software for text analysis, in-depth interviews with a representative sample of students and teachers were conducted. The findings exposed significant challenges faced during the pandemic, including a lack of digital tool proficiency among users, inadequate engagement with online content, organisational hurdles, increased workload, diminished personal interactions, and emerging mental health concerns among students. These insights underscore the urgency of crafting tailored strategies to enhance the phygital learning environment, focusing on improving infrastructure and providing comprehensive training to both students and educators.
Keywords: blended learning, higher education, Leximancer, phygital, learning experience