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Dec 20, 2024

New Article on Assassin’s Creed Curriculum Guides!

TLC Lab Publishes Paper on Teacher Support for Game-Based Learning  We are excited to announce the publication of a new article, Guiding Teachers’ Game-Based Learning: How User Experience of a Digital Curriculum Guide Impacts Teachers’ Self-Efficacy a...


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Dec 12, 2024

TLC has a chapter in Handbook of Children and Screens!

We are thrilled to announce the publication of a new book chapter, "Children’s Understanding and Use of Voice-Assistants: Opportunities and Challenges," co-authored by Dr. Dubé. This chapter is part of the influential volume Handbook of Children's and ...


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Nov 21, 2024

TLC lab member presents at McGill Neuroscience Seminar

Nandini Asavari Bharadwaj delivered a talk “Weaving a theory of artificial minds” at Integrate and Fire, a seminar series in McGill’s Integrated Program in Neuroscience. The talk considers how exposure to AI systems might affect how children think and ...


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Nov 20, 2024

Rasel Babu receives IDRA award

We are thrilled to announce that Rasel Babu has been awarded the highly coveted 2024 International Doctoral Research Award (IDRA) by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in collaboration with Universities Canada. This award recognizes e...


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Nov 14, 2024

Robin Takes the Title of TLC Lab Game-Off Champion!

Over the course of the semester, the TLC Lab hosted an epic Game-Off organized by Emma, featuring a variety of games like Halo, Mario Party, Trivia Murder Party, and other thrilling mini-games. After weeks of friendly competition, Robin emerged victori...


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Nov 8, 2024

TLC Member is featured in the AERA TACTL SIG Newsletter

As the AERA TACTL SIG Student Representative, TLC Member Heather Pearson was selected by the TACTL Committee to be the first “Student Member Spotlight” in the bi-monthly newsletter. 



Oct 19, 2024

TLC Lab Member Presents Research on Mobile Learning at the AECT International Convention

During October 19-23, Jie Gao attended the AECT 2024 International Convention as a presenter in Kansas City, USA. Her research was “Studying Mobile Learning Experience via Text Mining of App Store User Reviews.” This study used the Natural Language Pro...


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Sep 13, 2024

Lab Member Awarded SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship

Lab Member Emma Liptrot was awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for her research proposal: Assessing the Quality of Educational App Selection in Schools. 



Sep 6, 2024

TLC Lab Member and Dr. Dubé interviewed on CHED 630 Radio Edmonton

Emma Liptrot and Dr. Dubé were interviewed by CHED 630 Radio Edmonton’s This Morning, hosted by Stacey Brotzel. They discussed their recent article in The Conversation Canada on how parents and teachers can choose good apps for kids. The interview addr...


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Sep 2, 2024

TLC Lab Writes for The Conversation Canada

Emma Liptrot and Dr. Dubé wrote a news piece for The Conversation Canada entitled: “Educational apps for children: What parents and educators should look for and ignore.” The piece aims to give parents and educators guidance on what to look for when br...


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Aug 13, 2024

TLC Lab Member Presents Research on Technology Integration at the 10th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute Conference

TLC lab member Rasel Babu and Dr. Adam Dube presented a paper titled “Quaternary contradictions and their influence on technology integration by university teachers” in the 10th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute Conference held online between 13-15 Aug...


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Jun 25, 2024

TLC Member Awarded the Jackie Kirk Fellowship

TLC Member Heather Pearson was awarded the Faculty of Education’s Jackie Kirk Fellowship for her research supporting girls’ education and female teachers. She ran a 3D printing project at an all-girls school aimed to empower high school girls to become...


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Jun 12, 2024

TLC Lab Member Shares Insights on Bangladeshi Teachers’ EdTech Readiness at CSSE 2024 in Montreal

Rasel Babu and Dr. Adam Dube presented a paper titled “Bangladeshi teachers’ readiness to integrate educational technology for teaching language and Mathematics” in the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Conference 2024 which was held b...


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Jun 11, 2024

TLC lab member awarded impact fellowship at Children and Screens (USA)

Nandini Asavari Bharadwaj was awarded participation in a year-long (2024-25) research impact fellowship at Children and Screens, Institute of Digital Media and Child Development (USA). This remote fellowship is intended to advance and support institute...


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Jun 7, 2024

TLC Member Rasel Babu Earns Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

 Rasel Babu, in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, received a McGill Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for their research topic: "Pedagogues' Readiness to Integrate Educational Technology for Teaching Language and Mathematics in...


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Jun 4, 2024

TLC Member Presents at SALTISE Conference

TLC Member Heather Pearson presents initial findings from her dissertation work “Using 3D Printing to Foster Self-Directed Learning in Adolescents: Initial Insights from School-Based Research” as a talk at SALTISE. 



Jun 3, 2024

TLC Lab Member Presents Paper at the SALTISE 2024 Conference

Rasel Babu and Dr. Adam Dube presented a paper titled “Policies to enhance online learning during the post-pandemic era” in the SALTISE 2024 Conference held between 3-4 June at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. 



May 12, 2024

TLC lab member presented at CHI 2024 workshop at on Theory of Mind in Human-AI Interaction

Nandini Asavari Bharadwaj presented a paper at a CHI 2024 workshop on Theory of Mind in Human-AI Interaction. The paper entitled “Weaving a theory of Artificial Minds” is a synthesis of multidisciplinary approaches describing children’s understanding o...


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May 6, 2024

TLC Lab member writes for The Conversation Canada

Nandini Asavari Bharadwaj and Annie Shiau (Ph.D. Student, School/Applied Child Psychology Program, ECP) collaborated on an article published in The Conversation Canada and France entitled “AI products for kids promising friendship and learning? 3 thing...


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Apr 30, 2024

TLC Lab member awarded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral 2024-2027

Nandini Asavari Bharadwaj was awarded the SSHRC CGS-D scholarship to support her work investigating the impact of digital assistant use (e.g., Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple Siri) on children’s learning and understanding of conversational art...


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Apr 14, 2024

TLC Member Awarded Certificate of Appreciation from AERA’s TACTL SIG

TLC Member Heather Pearson was awarded the Certificate of Appreciation for her work as the Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning (TACTL) SIG’s Graduate Student Representative. 



Apr 11, 2024

TLC Members Attend and Present Posters at American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting

Armaghan Montazami and Emma Liptrot presented research exploring factors influencing app selection at a recent event. Armaghan's poster, titled "Why This App: Do App Store Ratings, Rankings, and Educational Features Affect Parents’ App Selection?", exa...


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Apr 11, 2024

TLC Member presents at AERA Philadelphia and Co-Hosts TACTL SIG Graduate Student Social

Heather Pearson presented her work “Fostering adolescents self-directed learning through making: The development of an integrated model” as a roundtable at AERA.  As the TACTL Graduate Student Representative, she co-hosted the TACTL Graduate Student So...


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Feb 1, 2024

TLC Lab Member Receives the 2023 International Doctoral Research Award

 TLC Lab member Robin Sharma received the International Doctoral Research Award (IDRA) 2023. The award aims to strengthen the research capacity of doctoral students enrolled at Canadian universities. The award will support his field research studying t...


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Dec 7, 2023

TLC lab delivers the “Playing to Learn” Workshop in collaboration with UNESCO

TLC Lab members Gulsah Kacmaz and Robin Sharma designed and delivered an interactive workshop in collaboration with UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP). 50 teachers and students participated in the...


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Jul 7, 2023

Dr. Dubé and TLC Member Awarded the Innovate-Ed Project Grant for Dissertation Research

Dr. Dubé was one of two recipients for the Faculty of Education’s Innovate-Ed Project Grant, which aims to strengthen partnerships with schools focused around innovations in STEAM and technology practices. The grant supported Heather Pearson’s disserta...


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Jun 12, 2023

TLC Member Presents at SALTISE in Montreal

Heather presented a talk “Fostering Adolescents' Self-Directed Learning Through Making: The Development of an Integrated Model” at SALTISE. 



Jun 12, 2023

TLC Lab Member Presents Paper at SALTISE 2023 Conference

Rasel Babu presented a paper titled “Use of educational technology in resource constrained contexts” in the SALTISE 2023 Conference held between 12-13 June at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. 



Jun 1, 2023

TLC Member Awarded EGSS’s Academic Excellence Award

TLC Member Heather Pearson was selected as one of the top four doctoral students in the Faculty of Education. 



May 1, 2023

TLC Member Awarded SSHRC’s Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral

TLC Member Heather Pearson was selected as one of the top recipients for the Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for her dissertation work entitled “Using 3D Printing to Enhance Ad...


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Apr 25, 2023

TLC Member Awarded the Graduate Mobility Award to Attend Workshops at MIT

TLC Member Heather Pearson was issued the award from the Faculty of Education to attend making and digital fabrication workshops at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology‘s (MIT) Edgerton Center. The workshops were run by the K-12 Maker Lab. 



Apr 16, 2023

TLC Member Awarded the Certificate of Appreciation from AERA’s TACTL SIG

Heather Pearson was awarded the Certificate of Appreciation for her work as the Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning (TACTL) SIG’s Graduate Student Representative. 



Apr 16, 2023

TLC Member co-presents with Dr. Krista Muis at AERA in Chicago

Dr. Muis and Heather Pearson presented findings from “A design-based intervention to develop elementary students' digital literacy skills” as a talk at AERA. 



Apr 14, 2023

McGill Learning Sciences Students at AERA in Chicago

McGill Learning Sciences graduate student gathered at AERA in Chicago, including TLC members Heather, Armaghan, Tania, and Run. They also attended AERA TACTL SIG’s Graduate Student Social co-host by Heather, who is the TACTL Graduate Student Representa...


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Apr 13, 2023

TLC Lab at AERA Conference 2023

TLC Lab members presented their work at American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference 2023 inperson at Chicago (April 13-16) and online (May 4-5).  Armaghan presented a poster entitled "Study of the Most Popular Learning Theories Guiding ...


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Mar 30, 2023

TLC Lab Member at Quarterly Knowledge Exchange on Gamification and Gaming

TLC lab member Robin Sharma was invited to speak at Quarterly Knowledge Exchange on Gamification and Gaming organized by the United Nations Development Program on 30th March 2023. The purpose of this meeting was to create a dialogue, learn, and inspire...


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Mar 27, 2023

Feature in EdWeek Article: "What We’ve Learned About Technology and Learning in the Last 3 Years"

TLC Lab's work on how teachers choose the apps they use in class was featured in a recent article in Edweek. This study was led by Armaghan Montazami, Heather Pearson, Dr. Adam Dubé, Gulsah Kacmaz, Run Wen, and Dr. Sabrina Shajeen Alam. 



Jan 23, 2023

Dr. Dubé at Bad Game Arcade Symposium 2023, Concordia University

Dr. Dube was a panelist for a discussion entitled "Where it’s Made? Educational Games in Academia and Beyond" as part of the Bad Game Arcade Symposium held in Montreal. The Bad Game Arcade is a symposium about educational games hosted by Concordia Univ...


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Dec 10, 2022

TLC Lab Members at 2022 Annual Antiquity in Media Studies Conference

TLC Lab member Chu Xu, and Robin Sharma presented the Discovery Tour Curriculum Guides at the 2022 Annual Antiquity in Media Studies Conference on 10th December 2022. The presentation was followed by a 45-minute Q&A session with practitioners, teachers...


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Oct 31, 2022

Dr. Dubé at Canadian EdTech Leadership Summit 2022

Dr. Dubé was a featured speaker at the recent Canadian EdTech Leadership Summit held in Montreal, Canada. The summit, The State of EdTech in Canada: Driving Innovation Through Evidence-based Research was a partnered event between MindShare Learning and...


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Aug 6, 2022

Dr. Krista Muis and Heather present at APA in Minneapolis

 Dr. Krista Muis and Heather Pearson presented their findings for “Fostering Digital Literacy in Elementary Students: A Design-Based Intervention” at the American Psychological Association’s Conference. 



Jun 2, 2022

TLC Member Awarded Quebec’s FRQSC Doctoral Scholarship

TLC Member Heather Pearson was awarded Quebec’s FRQSC Doctoral Scholarship to support her dissertation research. 



Apr 22, 2022

TLC Members Present at AERA in San Diego

TLC Members Heather Pearson and Run Wen present separate papers on educational apps at AERA. Heather presented "Why this app: Can a Video-Based Intervention Help Parents Identify Quality Educational Apps?" 



Feb 1, 2022

TLC Lab Member selected as "Gamechanger" for 2021 Games for Peace Challenge

Robin Sharma was selected as one of the final 22 “Gamechangers” from the Asia Pacific at the 2021 Digital Games for Peace Challenge co-organized by three agencies of the United Nations, UNESCO, UNOCT, and UNAOC. He collaborated with other participants ...


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Feb 1, 2022

TLC Lab Member Interviewed by VoicED Radio Canada

Sabrina Alam was interviewed by the Voiced Radio Canada where she talked about her PhD research study. She suggested that there should be an optimum integration between formal and informal learning contexts for better instructional plan.



Jan 11, 2022

TLC Lab Members’ AERA Paper is Nominated for the Best Paper Award

Heather Pearson’s first authored-paper “Why this app: Can a Video-Based Intervention Help Parents Identify Quality Education Apps?” was nominated as one of the 10 highest rated papers submitted to AERA TACTL SIG. The paper was co-authored by Armaghan a...


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Apr 8, 2021

TLC Member presents at her first AERA online during the pandemic

Heather Pearson presented work from her M.Ed. “Why this app? How educators choose good educational apps” at AERA Online. 



Jan 1, 2021

TLC Lab Collaboration with Ubisoft Discovery Tour Game

Since January 2021, Chu Xu and Robin Sharma, under the direction of Adam Dubé, have collaborated with Ubisoft’s Discovery Tour game development and web development teams to create curriculum guides for Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, and...


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Sep 8, 2020

Dr. Dubé Presents Tips for Remote Learning on CTV News

Dr. Dubé was interviewed by CTV News on remote learning. He provided some insightful tips on learning from home.



Aug 28, 2020

Dr. Dubé hosts webinar on At-Home Learning during Covid-19

Dr. Adam Dubé and Professor Sam Bruzzese of McGill Education's Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology held a webinar about how to best take advantage of available educational technology to learn during COVID-19 for students of all ages



Aug 26, 2020

Announcement: GPD Learning Sciences

TLC lab is proud to announce that Dr. Adam Dubé will serve as Graduate Program Director for the Learning Sciences and Health Professions Education Programs for the upcoming academic year 2020-2021!



Mar 18, 2020

Learning from home: How to record a presentation using zoom

In response to COVID-19, conferences and classes are moved to online. If you have no idea how to present your work virtually, please check out this video. Dr. Dubé has made a guide outlining how you can record your own presentations from home using Zoo...


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Mar 16, 2020

Schools are closing: How to spot a good elementary educational app for your child?

This study was done to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of educational phone and tablet apps for children. A survey was sent out to parents and caregivers, asking them to judge 10 popular apps and decide which ones should be downloaded for educat...


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Jan 20, 2020

2020 Faculty of Education Teaching Awards

TLC lab is proud to announce that Dr. Adam Dubé is the winner of 2020 Faculty of Education Distinguished Teaching Award! Dr. Adam Dubé has been recognized for his engaging learning environment in different forms, including large lectures and seminars.



Jan 2, 2020

2020 Games For Change Virtual Festival

At the virtual Games For Change Festival 2020, Robin co-presented design examples for developing digital curriculum around commercial-off-the-shelf games for building Social-Emotional Skills. The session titled ‘Gamestorming Curricula’ also discussed r...


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Nov 5, 2019

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)'s Industry Guidelines on Digital Learning: Discussion Draft

TLC lab is proud to announce that Dr. Dubé was invited by UNESCO to write a guideline on digital learning. This guideline provides a holistic system of characteristics and skills that are important in delivering engaging learning through digital educat...


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Nov 4, 2019

Tablets as Elementary Mathematics Education Tools: Are They Effective and Why

More parents and teachers are referring tablets as mathematics learning tools. Are they effective in terms of improving elementary mathematics? Find out TLC Lab's latest systematic review of the tablets' effectiveness in Mathematical Learning and Cogni...


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Jan 2, 2019

AERA-SRCD Early Career Research Fellowship in Middle Childhood Education and Development

Congratulations for Dr. Adam Dubé being selected to receive the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) Early Career Research Fellowship in Middle Childhood Education and Development!! T...


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Jan 2, 2019

Nominated for American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2019 Best Paper Award

The TLC lab paper “Mathematics apps in the App Store: Low transparency impedes educator’s ability to find quality apps” was accepted for presentation in an AERA Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning (TACTL) SIG session for the 2019 ...


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Apr 17, 2018

Effective Parenting 2018 (Public lecture series)

This public lecture series focused on topics of concern for parents/guardians/grandparents in our fast-paced world and digital age. On April 17th, Dr. Adam Dubé presented the topic on "Helping your child navigate and learn online in a time of Facebook ...


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Mar 29, 2018

Interview on CityTV's Breakfast Television--Strategies for Modern Parenting

Dr. Adam Dubé was interviewed by CityTV's Breakfast Television on March 29th. He talked about the upcoming parenting series put on by the department of educational and counselling psychology. Dr. Dubé's interview addressed how learning online has chang...


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Mar 25, 2018

Interview on CJAD Radio's Real Parents--Helping Kids Navigate Social Media in the Era of Fake News

Dr. Adam Dubé was interviewed by CBC on March 25th. He shared tips for parents on helping kids navigate social media in the era of fake news.



Jan 2, 2018

Understanding Tablets from Early Childhood to Adulthood: Encounters with Touch Technology


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