“Jasons pédagogie numérique” — A Maker’s Education

Alexandre helps learning professionals make technology appropriate for their contexts, just like he did as a technopédagogue for Vitrine technologie-éducation from 2014 to 2016 and as a Technopedagogical Advisor for Collecto from 2021 to 2023. Alex comes back to this role after a few in Ottawa (creating cybersecurity learning pathways and a Massive Open Online Learning Experience on public engagement), and in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean for participatory-action research at COlab.

Dr. Ann-Louise Davidson is a Professor in Educational Technology and holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Maker Culture. She is the Director of the Innovation Lab and Associate Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology where she also directs #MilieuxMake, the Milieux makerspace initiative. She created Education Makers, a community of educators, students and community members who strive to develop the emergent profile of maker education with an edge.

She co-designs innovative learning experiences and concepts that draw on crucial themes, such as global issues, health, sustainability and youth motivation, through concrete maker activities such as building gaming tables, gamepads, wearable computing, pedagogical robotics, computational thinking and 3D printing, while engaging marginalized communities.

She developed an international reputation for her disruptive pedagogical innovations with emergent and digital technologies. She is currently involved in several institutional projects including a micro-credentials initiative. She has published numerous papers on learning with technology, recent issues with digital technologies, has engaged in research creation, and has given keynote speeches in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.