Do you have a foreign customer you need to wow? Do you want to have your words broadcast over the globe? We all know that our language is a vital resource for getting through life. The ability to convey feelings and effect change depends on effective communication. Friendships and partnerships may be formed with anybody. […] … learn more→

Like most people I check my emails in the morning, wading through a combination of work requests, spam and news alerts peppering my inbox. But yesterday brought something different and deeply disturbing. I noticed an alert from the American Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) about some very devious malware that had infected a network of computers. The […] … learn more→

Gender measures are sometimes perceived as something exclusively ideological. However, they serve to pay more attention to the complex reality that surrounds us: from the design of seat belts and space suits to the research of new drugs, when science does not attend to that complexity, it generates biases. The Integration of Gender Analysis in Research (IAGI) not […] … learn more→

When national student test scores revealed recently that knowledge of U.S. history and civics had reached an all-time low, one Republican lawmaker described the drop as an “outright failure that should concern every parent across the country.” The test scores showed that 86% of America’s eighth graders were not proficient in U.S. history, and 79% were not proficient in civics. While one […] … learn more→

Providing equitable quality education for all people is one of the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. To meet this goal, international organizations and national and local governments have invested heavily in expanding education. In Canada, for example, laws mandate that children stay in school until a certain age. Since the 1950s, policies related to post-secondary study have resulted […] … learn more→

The arrival of artificial intelligence to the general public has meant the beginning of a debate on whether it is possible for this automatic system to replace human intelligence. Multiple authors, from Noam Chomsky to epistemological philosophers , raise a series of doubts about this matter: Chomsky detects in her the banality of the evil of the philosopher Hannah Arendt, and […] … learn more→

Anxiety rates have been rising in recent years among children and young people, with the situation partially exacerbated by the pandemic. Occasional feelings of anxiety are normal, even in childhood – for example, a child may feel anxious about an approaching test at school. But if the anxiety is severe, long-lasting and interferes with a child’s daily life, it is called […] … learn more→

In the educational sciences, there have been increasing attempts to interconnect the disciplines with the so-called 21st century skills: collaboration skills, creativity, critical thinking and communication. In this context, educational robotics is revealed as a propitious means to devise learning experiences where the contents of any curricular area are applied. How can the learning of lexical […] … learn more→

Since the implementation of the 2005 law on equal rights and opportunities , inclusive schooling has become a major objective of the French education system. Today, it is a question of setting up a quality education intended for all pupils, whatever their differences and their needs. If the financial and human resources allocated to the support of students […] … learn more→

In 1998, I unintentionally created a racially biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today. The dangers of bias and errors in AI algorithms are now well known. Why, then, has there been a flurry of blunders by tech companies in recent months, especially in the world of AI […] … learn more→