Your alarm clock goes off, it’s time to start your day. What’s the first thing you do? What about right before you go to bed? If your answer is scrolling social media, you’re not alone. People are spending increasing amounts of time on social media, with reports from 2023 suggesting an average worldwide usage of two and […] … learn more→

Most kids use their car as a means of transportation at college or meeting friends downtown. However, most people believe that college-aged kids are some of the most unsafe drivers in the country. So, is this really true? Are college students dangerous drivers? A Florida-based college driving accident survey result shows that 49 percent of […] … learn more→

We have been carrying artificial intelligence in our pocket for a few years and we interact with it many times without being aware of it. In education it has also been used for a long time through tutoring and evaluation systems . With the arrival and popularization of ChatGPT in its version 3.5, we have been more aware than ever […] … learn more→

Are you eager to steer your career, team or organization toward uncharted territory? Or do you aspire to solve complex societal problems through innovation? It turns out that the most successful innovators aren’t solitary geniuses. Instead, they excel by “spanning boundaries” — moving beyond a given particular niche to access different forms of knowledge, communities, interest […] … learn more→

More than half of the children in the world speak a different language at school from the one(s) spoken at home . In France too, a large number of children today live in a bilingual or multilingual situation . Some parents born in France and of immigrant origin speak their family’s languages ​​to their children in order to transmit and […] … learn more→

If you’ve been online much recently, chances are you’ve seen some of the fantastical imagery created by text-to-image generators such as Midjourney and DALL-E 2. This includes everything from the naturalistic (think a soccer player’s headshot) to the surreal (think a dog in space).   “beautiful pug astronaut floating in space chasing a bone chew toy and dog treats” […] … learn more→

New research released today by The Smith Family shows how leaving school can be a difficult and complex time for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. It also shows how COVID has made this more difficult and complex. The new report includes a survey of more than 1,000 young people who were in Year 12 in late 2020 […] … learn more→

If I started my blog today, 11th of July 2023, you would never hear about me. I built a readership in my little corner of academia, and some measure of influence, by sharing my work online. When people ask how I got to 100,000 followers on social media, I used to share two tips: 1) […] … learn more→

More and more families , without being native, speak to their children in English. This is non-native bilingualism, which is one more manifestation of the growing involvement and support of parents in the education of their children. Speaking in English at an early age is intended to emulate native bilingual family environments and, thus, ensure that children […] … learn more→

No more text messages, no more calls, no more news, like that, overnight, without explanation… If this situation sounds familiar to you, you may have been the victim of “ghosting”. Derived from the English “ghost”, meaning “phantom”, this term could be translated into French by the expression “playing dead”. It appeared in popular culture in 2014 and […] … learn more→