Living, thinking and acting online (#VRAenligne) - March 21, 2024

You are invited to a study day entitled "Living, thinking and acting online ["Vivre, réfléchir et agir en ligne (#VRAenligne)."
Hybrid format: in-person at CSJ and online

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN FRENCH ONLY

Location: Pavillon MacMahon, Salle 1012B, Campus Saint-Jean

Title: « Vivre, réfléchir et agir en ligne (#VRAenligne) : l’apprentissage à la citoyenneté
éthique à l’ère numérique centrée sur les voix et le pouvoir d’agir des jeunes en contextes
francophones minoritaires » à la communauté éducative francophone en Alberta.
SSHRC-funded project, June 2023
Dr Martine Pellerin, University of Alberta and Dr Megan Cotnam-Kappel, University of Ottawa

Agenda
March 21, 2024 :

• 9 - 11 am (with coffee break): Dialogue-style meeting (hybrid mode)
  • Views from school principals, school boards, stakeholders, teachers and parents:
    Young people and their use of social media, and the need for digital literacy and ethical citizenship education.
  • Young people's viewpoints:
    How do they experience their online identities? How do they see themselves
    of an ethical citizen online, and how can we empower them to act as ethical citizens
    ethical citizen in the face of the social media issues they face?
    
    
• Noon - 12:30 pm Presentation of the "Vivre, réfléchir et agir en ligne" (#VRAenligne) project and question session (hybrid mode) :
  « Vivre, réfléchir et agir en ligne (#VRAenligne) : l’apprentissage à la citoyenneté éthique à l’ère
  numérique centrée sur les voix et le pouvoir d’agir des jeunes en contextes francophones
  minoritaires » à la communauté éducative francophone en Alberta. » (SSHRC-funded project, June 2023)
  
  
• 4 - 5:30 pm Panel (hybrid mode): with school principals, teachers, students, graduate students in French-speaking minority contexts
  
  
• 5:30- 6:30 pm Reception / light snack

Registration Form

Zoom link

BIOGRAPHIES

Martine Pellerin - Principal Investigator

Martine Pellerin is a full professor at the University of Alberta, Faculté Saint-Jean. She was Vice-Dean of Research and Innovation for 6 years. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the integration of technology in the and more recently on artificial intelligence (AI) in education, assessment in the digital age, digital literacy and ethical citizenship education. Her research focuses on the integration of digital technology in the classroom, trainee supervision with the AICOLT system, online collaborative action research (OCAR) as professional professional development, digital literacy and ethical citizenship, and more recently artificial intelligence and plagiarism.


Megan Cotnam-Kappel - Co-Principal Investigator

Megan Cotnam-Kappel is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. A specialist in educational technologies, her research interests include digital literacy and citizenship, the Maker movement and minority education. She holds doctorates from the University of Ottawa and the Université de Corse Pascal Paoli. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A committed Franco-Ontarian, she leads a research program aimed at developing digital literacy skills among teachers and students, with a view to reducing the digital divide across Canada and in minority communities in particular.