This episode takes you right onto the convention floor at the 2025 RASCALS Colloquium, where we asked CEGEP ESL teachers: What impressed you most this year?
We hear from:
Jonathan Bishop (Cégep de St-Hyacinthe)
Tanya Caouette (Cégep de St-Félicien)
Maxime Camiré (Cégep de Victoriaville)
Isabelle Dompierre-Lapointe (Cégep de Thetford)
Dina Isber (Cégep de Valleyfield)
Caroline Orton (Cégep du Vieux Montréal)
Amy Pittendreich (Cégep Lévis-Lauzon)
🔥 This episode includes reflections on three standout presentations:
Keynote: “AI isn’t coming—it’s already here”
Dianne Elizabeth Stankiewicz (Service national du RÉCIT, Domaine des langues) explores what generative AI means for CEGEP educators today. She tackles ethical use, critical thinking, effective prompting, and reframes academic integrity in the age of the machine. There’s even some humour.
📎 Presentation link: recit.org/ul/qxd
“Using a Screenplay Project to Stimulate Human Creativity”
🎬 Ian Pitblado (Collège Laflèche) walks us through a five-step speculative fiction screenwriting journey designed for the English Culture & Literature course. One of our guests called it their personal favourite for how it pushes students to create something real and meaningful.
“A Free, Engaging, Open-Source English 100 Course”
📚 Marie-J. Martineau (Cégep Édouard-Montpetit) shares her ECQ-funded course that’s practical, cost-free, and deeply aligned with the new devis values. Expect flexible lesson plans, H5P Moodle activities, and open access.
📧 Contact: mj.martineau@cegepmontpetit.ca
Whether you’re AI-curious, looking to refresh your materials, or just want to hear what colleagues are up to across the province, this episode delivers a fresh dose of inspiration.
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