Three 9-year-old girls are huddled around a Caesar wheel, an ancient tool for sharing secret messages. Cracking a code is one of many challenges the girls complete to help characters in CryptoComics escape a mysterious cyberworld into which they’ve been drawn. CryptoComics is a curriculum designed to teach elementary school children – particularly girls of color – […] … learn more→
Comic book introduces kids to key concepts and careers in cybersecurity
e-Iris : A plan to fight the digital divide from public libraries
During the past decade, the digital transformation of society has accelerated, and the pandemic has completed our technological immersion in virtually every facet of life. That is why it has become essential to have the ability to access, evaluate, create and use information critically, as well as to create content, collaborate with others and communicate safely […] … learn more→
What are languages for?
Languages are constellations of words shared by all those speakers who are immersed in a specific linguistic environment. Despite their surprising variety – there are about 7000 -, linguistics tries to analyze them and determine their structure. This relatively recent discipline, which has many schools and approaches, has also investigated the different functions of language. But what […] … learn more→
Doctorate: the major transformations of the thesis in management?
While, in Anglo-Saxon or Germanic countries, the doctorate is one of the royal ways to access management functions in companies, in France, with the weight of the grandes écoles, the doctorate remains above all a springboard towards teaching and research professions. In fact, in 2013, the National Foundation for Management Education (FNEGE) had already shown that 75% […] … learn more→
Buying picture books as Christmas presents? These stories with diverse characters can help kids develop empathy
Gifting children books can be about more than just giving them something to read. Books are portals to adventure, imagination and new experiences. Importantly, books can help children understand and appreciate themselves, and those around them. Sadly, books normalising racial, cultural, family or gender diversity and diverse abilities are few and far between. When children see […] … learn more→
For the book from the PhD
I do love the book that comes from the PhD. The book seems like a fitting reward for all the hard work done during the doctorate. Indeed, in some countries, the post defence thesis is published as a book. That’s the book of the PhD, not from it. There’s nothing quite like getting the first copies of your first […] … learn more→
This season, give the gift of tech literacy — not addiction — along with that device
What do wireless speakers, streaming music subscriptions, smartphones and customized game controllers have in common? They are some of the best tech gifts for children and teens this year. Rounding out the list are a range of smartwatches and fitness trackers, also called e-wearables. And you’re not alone if you’re thinking of buying your child or teen one […] … learn more→
Teacher gender bias is real and has lasting effects on students’ marks and study choices
Two important patterns in education are true world-wide. First, females outperform males in most subjects, and boys do not outperform girls in high school maths and physics. Second, more females than males enrol in higher education. However, female enrolments in science, technology, mathematics and engineering (STEM) degrees are disproportionately low. My research with Professor Victor Lavy has shown teacher gender […] … learn more→
A guide to cheap moving services for university students
We go to university to complete higher study. Every year lots of people go to university in the big city. So they have to move to the city where the university is located. Every move is a stressful experience including university moving. Though DIY moving could be a good option. But hiring a professional moving […] … learn more→
Does bilingual education marginalize?
Abdullah has learned three languages other than his mother tongue in school, and by the end of the sixth grade he is proficient in all four. His school has 92% immigrant students of more than 28 nationalities and families of low socioeconomic status. The students of this center obtain excellent results in the assessments of basic competences in […] … learn more→