Robert Jean LeBlanc’s research while affiliated with University of Lethbridge and other places

... , and the rise of digital platform governance of education systems (Gulson and Witzenberger, 2022;Nichols and Dixon-Rom an, 2024). These work in tandem with the growing presence of automated writing tutor and assessment systems that position technology as a surefire solution to educational issues, thereby drawing attention away from the cultural and social practices that shape learning (Robinson, 2023;Stornaiuolo et al., 2024). ...

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Guest editorial: Artificial intelligence and composing just education futures

... Extensive research has been conducted on the relationship between teachers and students, concluding that teachers should be emotionally competent and offer sympathetic treatment to students to help them feel respected in the classroom (Brackett, 2019;García-Moya et al., 2020). They should also create motivating learning situations that can promote positive feelings toward learning (LeBlanc, 2022). In the meta-analysis study by Wang et al. (2020), it is evident that classroom climate has a positive relationship with social competencies, motivation, engagement, and academic performance while damaging relationships with socioemotional distress and antisocial behaviors. ...

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Innovations in Teaching and Learning: International Approaches in Developing Teacher Education and Curriculum for The Future

... In the translation part, the extraordinarily rich collection of poems is Polyfónia II (Polyphony II, 1986). It also included translations into Slovak (15) and Hungarian (21), resp. translations of Slovak poems by authors from the Lowland into Hungarian (18). ...

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Sándor Kormos’ translations and their use through teaching methods in minority schools

... AI is an umbrella term that encompasses several categories including natural language processors (e.g. predictive text; TextHelp, 2024), machine learning (i.e., Turnitin's Revision Assistant; Nichols et al., 2021), adaptive learning platforms (e.g. Achieve 3000; Murphy, 2019) and generative pre-trained transformers (e.g. ...

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Using AI to Support Special Education Teacher Workload

... But also, social media platforms are part of the assemblage of machine learning systems and, vice versa, a machine learning system is part of the assemblage of the platformized web spurred by social media. Assemblages are characterized by performativity (Nichols & LeBlanc, 2021). They are always in motion, disposing new relations at different scales: i.e. a social media interface needs to be put in motion by a user who, by doing this, is simultaneously put in relation to the interface, to other users, to the material infrastructure of the internet, to the technological corporation running the platform, and to the cultural landscape that makes social media usage meaningful and desirable in the first place. ...

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Beyond the Digital Public Sphere: Towards a Political Ontology of Algorithmic Technologies

... Así, los artículos en español hacen referencia, en su mayoría, a realidades latinoamericanas y los que están en inglés abordan espacios, en su mayoría, angloparlantes. Para la clasificación de los textos se consideró su predominancia temática, epistemológica y metodológica; sin embargo, no se pueden considerar categorías exclusivas, sino que los textos tienen elementos que cruzan varias de ellas.Análisis e interpretaciónEl enfoque metodológico que prevalece entre los artículos revisados es el cualitativo, en el que se incluyen también estudios de caso(LeBlanc, 2021;Lewkowich, 2019). Dentro de esta categoría, el escenario se diversifica y se observan análisis de corte argumental y crítico (Abdul-Jabbar, 2015), análisis de contenido y descripción de experiencias pedagógicas de corte crítico o sociocultural(Dallacqua & Sheahan, 2020;Steiss, 2020), a partir de entrevistas o grupos focales(Hanratty, 2013). ...

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La enseñanza literaria en secundaria: modelos, enfoques y tradiciones

... A multitude of factors associated with learning with and through videogames has led scholars to question whether the learning associated with well-designed games is worth it. These include concerns about: algorithmic cultures (Ehret 2024), platform practices (Nichols and LeBlanc 2020), psychosocial surveillance and discipline through gamification techniques (Robinson 2021;Williamson 2017), gaming cultures (Golding and Van Deventer 2016), and fluid boundaries between intended and actual gameplay (Consalvo 2007). As Kline et al. (2003) remind us, videogames need to be considered in terms of the interconnectedness between technological experience, market transactions (including the consumption of digital commodities produced large by transnational corporations and media empires), and the active production and consumption of cultural meaning by players. ...

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Postdigital Videogames Literacies: Thinking With, Through, and Beyond James Gee’s Learning Principles

... Writing is a core skill in academics, yet many students at the high school level do not write as frequently as expected, leaving them underprepared for writing tasks when they reach the university level (LeBlanc, 2021). High school students may lack sufficient time to learn how to criticize an idea, specify their stance on an argument, define a problem and propose a solution, or finesse their text into highquality prose. ...

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Webtools as Strategy: Online Resources to Support Academic Writing in Lower-Division STEM Courses

... Ventriloquation As defined by Deborah Tannen (2010), ventriloquation (or ventriloquizing) is the process through which individuals "frame their utterances as others' voices" (2010:308). While existing work on ventriloquation primarily characterizes it as using the voice of others in their vicinity (Tannen 2010;LeBlanc 2018), this article seeks to describe the ventriloquation of an imagined third party or character while still accomplishing the discursive functions Tannen describes. She characterizes ventriloquation as borrowing the voice and therefore identity of another. ...

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Imitation Is the Most Sincere Form of Mockery: Mock Jewish English in Online Extremist Communities

... Zare-ee and Hejaz made a study on seven EFL teacher and their 25 undergraduates involved in the English Literature and Translation Studies program at the University of Kashan based on the model of Initiation-Response-Feedback. By using the methodology of observation, the researchers aimed at examining what impacts teachers' gender and teaching experiences may make on the T-S interactions, and then it turns out that students prefer to interact more with the more experienced teacher and their interaction will not be influenced by teachers' gender (Zare-ee, 2019) [5]. Some studies have been concerned about the effect of students' gender on teacher-student interactions. ...

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How does Gender Affect Teacher-Student Interaction: A Case Study in China’s EFL Classes