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Stuck Outside the Gate: The Hidden Costs of Inaccessible Engagement
Oh, the irony! As I sit here tapping away, sipping a lukewarm herbal tea, I should have been buzzing with the energy of an NHS engagement event. An event I was genuinely excited about, one where my lived experience as a military spouse and my res...
Post · June 13, 2025
“They Spit, We Hit”: The Los Angeles Protests, Militarization of Law Enforcement, and a Potential Clash with the Constitution
Protests in Los Angeles Showed a Familiar Pattern of Militarized Police and a False Narrative of Widespread Violence to Justify Dubious Legal Responses to Protests
This past Saturday, I watched, from Canada, livestreams of some of the protests i...
Post · June 12, 2025
The Unpaid Labour of Expertise: Why We Need to Pay for Lived Experience
Recently, two professionals traveled quite a distance to meet me at home. Part of our meeting was a welcome acknowledgment that some things had gone wrong with their service, and I truly appreciated that gesture. But another part of the agenda was...
Post · June 11, 2025
Where do projects in Science, Technology and Literaure come from and how does creation happen?
The following are notes to my self. I'll clean it up later.
General: 1) Split life time into "creation time" and "useful distraction time" and remove "useless distractions". I'll call the first two C,D. 2) Have a hierarchy of creating platforms,...
Post · June 10, 2025
New Article Alert! Pearson and Dubé Examine How Maker Activities Foster Self-Directed Learning
We are thrilled to announce the publication of a new peer-reviewed article by TLC Lab members Heather Ann Pearson and Dr. Adam Dubé in the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. The article, titled “Developing Maker Activities to Enh...
Post · June 10, 2025
TLC Lab Member Co-Authors Report with Children & Screens on AI and Children’s Wellbeing
We are proud to share that Nandini Bharadwaj has co-authored a report for Children & Screen's Institute of Digital Media and Child Development. The report was submitted to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to inform the development of a ...
Post · June 10, 2025
Dr. Dubé's Keynote and TLC Lab Posters at the 3rd AIM Summit.
Dr. Adam Dubé opened the 3rd Assessment and Instruction for Mathematics (AIM) Collective Summit with his keynote on TLC lab's program of research studying how digital tools are being used to support children's mathematical cognition. His talk addr...
Post · June 10, 2025
TLC Lab's projects highlighted in WIKIT report.
The latest report by the International Centre for EdTech Impact; WiKIT features eight case studies of Academia-Industry Collaborations in EdTech. Three of eight cases highlight projects from the TLC Lab. This publication champions the industry lea...
Post · June 10, 2025