Smartphones in school. Rating road repairs. Adults figured out by babies.

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• Princeton University's R&D Mag and The Suburban join media coverage of new research into bilingualism in infants, co-Associate professor of art education, Juan Carlos Castro writes an op-ed in the Montreal Gazette (published online and in hardcopy), where he argues for the creative use of smartphones in schools. He refers to his own 2016 research project, where mobile media were seen to offer new opportunities for deeper learning, notably among returning high school dropouts. 
• Radio Canada International and AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) report on Concordia research that has produced a rating system for prioritizing road repair projects. In a paper recently published in the Journal of Transportation Engineering, Tarek Zayed, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD student Soliman Abu-Samra and Concordia building engineering graduate Wael Tabra (MASc 10) describe a method of gauging where and when preventive road work should be conducted.
• Ça m'intéresse references a 2011 Concordia study that found children as young as 14 months can differentiate between a credible person and a disingenuous one. While the article does not identify the researchers, the paper, published in the journal Infant Behavior and Development, was coauthored by psychology professor Diane Poulin-Dubois and then-doctoral candidate Ivy Brooker.

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