John Abbott College

The anamnèse, or case history, is a foundational written genre in healthcare, produced routinely by professionals during clinical encounters. Despite its importance, there is a notable lack of pedagogical resources tailored to support non-French-speaking students in mastering this genre within French for Specific Purposes (FSP) contexts. This gap presents a challenge for instructors, who often must create custom materials in collaboration with healthcare practitioners. Building on a previous needs-based study of course content, this teaching report documents the development of targeted instructional materials for the anamnèse genre within a French for Health Sciences course at an English-language university in Montreal, Canada. The development process began with a review of relevant literature and textbooks in both French and English for the health sciences. Following this, and after meeting with healthcare faculty members, in the course of which students’ writing challenges during medical placements were idenified, the teaching materials were created. The findings led to the formulation of a proposed structure for the anamnèse, grounded in both practitioner input and existing literature on case histories in English and French. Sample teaching activities are presented to demonstrate how the materials address learners’ specific needs. This report contributes to the advancement of genre-based pedagogy in FSP and emphasizes the value of interdisciplinary collaboration in developing effective, context-sensitive teaching tools.

L'État de la situation sur les impacts sociétaux de l'intelligence artificielle et du numérique fait état des connaissances actuelles sur les impacts sociétaux de l'IA et du numérique, structurées autour des sept axes de recherche de l'Obvia : santé, éducation, travail et emploi, éthique et gouvernance, droit, arts et médias, et transition socio-écologique. Hypertrucages, désinformation, empreinte environnementale, droit d'auteur, évolution des conditions de travail… Le document recense les grandes questions de recherche soulevées par le déploiement progressif de ces nouvelles technologies, auxquelles viennent s'ajouter des cas d'usages et de pistes d'action. Il s'impose ainsi comme un outil complet et indispensable pour accompagner la prise de décision dans tous les secteurs bouleversés par ces changements.

Recent developments in natural language understanding have sparked a great amount of interest in the large language models such as ChatGPT that contain billions of parameters and are trained for thousands of hours on all the textual data of the internet. ChatGPT has received immense attention because it has widespread applications, which it is able to do out-of-the-box, with no prior training or fine-tuning. These models show emergent skill and can perform virtually any textual task and provide glimmers, or “sparks”, of artificial general intelligence, in the form of a general problem solver as envisioned by Newell and Simon in the early days of artificial intelligence research. Researchers are now exploring the opportunities of ChatGPT in education. Yet, the factors influencing and driving users’ acceptance of ChatGPT remains largely unexplored. This study investigates users’ (n=138) acceptance of ChatGPT. We test a structural model developed using Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology model. The study reveals that performance expectancy is related to behavioral intention, which in turn is related to ChatGPT use. Findings are discussed within the context of mass adoption and the challenges and opportunities for teaching and learning. The findings provide empirical grounding to support understanding of technology acceptance decisions through the lens of students’ use of ChatGPT and further document the influence of situational factors on technology acceptance more broadly. This research contributes to body of knowledge and facilitates future research on digital innovation acceptance and use.

A classic nonlinear spring mass oscillator, the nonlinearity of which could be varied by changing the initial stretching of the spring, was used to investigate how the amplitude dependence of the period and the harmonic content depended on the nonlinearity. The oscillations were measured with a photogate and a MEMS accelerometer, allowing both the oscillation period and the Fourier components of the motion to be precisely determined. The results were in good agreement with theory.

Cities themselves are living archives. Their built form and streetscapes are at once prosaic and visually spectacular, messy and ordered, permeable and bounded. As complex, incomplete and ever-changing entities, cities and their cultural infrastructure are the repositories of urban life (Rao 2009). Nevertheless, there are cultural institutions within cities that have explicit mandates to collect, store and exhibit memories, histories and knowledge that become the foundations of state-sanctioned culture. These range in practice from small personal collections to the activist reading rooms and archives of oppositional groups, to state-sanctioned municipal libraries, national archives and metropolitan museums. Within these collections are images, texts and material culture from the past through to the present that are catalogued, indexed and stored for selective display and reinterpretation. In cities, these repositories provide the cultural infrastructure through which to recuperate the past and reimagine urban futures.

With the assistance of textual analysis, this article examines the images of yingling (spirits of aborted or miscarried foetuses) in The Tag-Along and The Tag-Along 2. This popular cinematic demonology searches for a Taiwanese identity through urban legends and folklore. In the films, yingling are imagined as pitiful and malevolent. The spiritual being has desires, emotions and agency. This feto-centric imagination echoes the religious discourses that frame the newly popularized abortion ritual in Taiwan. Women are depicted as determined, independent and mutually supportive. However, the essentialist sexual differences remain highlighted, meaning that they are portrayed as mothers, and their bodies are represented through polluting blood, a signifier of excessive yin that serves the patrilineal needs of reproduction. During the process of modernization, Taiwanese society experienced drastic changes, yet, the ghost, as the persistent past, continues to impact the present. Through the investigation of irrationality, the reality surrounding women and children is revisited and debated.

The period T of an undamped compound pendulum depends on just three variables, the rotation axis to center of mass distance a, the gyradius k of the pendulum about its center of mass and the gravitational acceleration g. The extraction of these parameters from typical undergraduate measurements of the pendulum period Tx as a function of the axis position x is presented. Measurement of just two periods and the pivot displacement Δx allows any two of the parameters to be measured. Three period measurements at pivot displacements b and c allow all three parameters a, k and g to be determined, without any knowledge of the pendulum properties.

Inquiry-based instruction is a form of active learning that scaffolds investigation of authentic problems. It relies on collaborative activities that engage students in discipline-specific practices that promote the use of high-level cognitive skills – analysis, decision-making, and evaluation. Inquiry-Based Laboratories extends this approach to lab experimentation. Compared to traditional labs, inquiry-based labs require students to make decisions that are critical to the process – what methods to use, what data to collect, etc. We report on a case study conducted in Fall 2021, featuring a design focus IBL implementation in a college Waves and Modern Physics course. The case study spanned the 15-week semester with students’ scientific reasoning assessed at three points: pre-test, immediate post-test, and delayed post-test. Students showed improvements in their scientific reasoning with positive changes to their epistemic beliefs – i.e., thinking more like scientists.

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