DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
We are still learning about the impact excessive screen time can have on students’ physical and emotional wellness. Achieving healthy online/offline balance is more important than ever. But the good news is with a bit of awareness and communication, it’s …
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an educational website that offers tons of excellent free writing resources for students and writers. OWL, which belongs to Purdue University, has a huge online library that features a wide variety of materials …
Blended learning is the strategic combination of face-to-face and online learning experiences and when properly implemented, the popular teaching method can result in improved student success, satisfaction, and retention. Learn more about the benefits of blended courses, get tips to …
Do it yourself is more than just a trend for crafts and home improvements — it is an ethos that has reached higher education.
While critical commentators are beginning to question the pedagogical limitations of facially driven learning, other this article contends that school-based facial recognition presents a number of other social challenges and concerns that merit specific attention.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2020.1686014…
You already get your socks, your audiobooks, and the latest binge-worthy television series on Amazon. So why shouldn’t the online retail giant be the go-to-source for lesson plans?
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2019/11/amazon-sell-teachers-materials-resource.html…
Presenter Coach is one of best features to be added to PowerPoint in a long time. Presenter Coach is found in the online version of PowerPoint that anyone can use with a free Microsoft account. Presenter Coach will give you …
Using videos in teaching and learning would help not only students but teachers as well. The online nature of videos allows them to be shared at all hours of the day or night throughout the world. By using videos to …
During many years, Dawson never had a standard videoconferencing platform. Each department could use the one of its choice. So during this period of time we had many different platforms being used here, like VIA, Adobe Connect, Webex and others.…
We always worried about compromising our personal data online, so we do all the necessary steps to protect our online accounts. But we forget to safeguard our system offline. In this article, we are going to share some best tools …
Have you ever thought in having your files in the cloud and be able to access them anywhere, anytime and using any device? Everybody at Dawson has access to Office 365, a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that includes …
Have you ever thought in having your files in the cloud and be able to access them anywhere, anytime and using any device? Everybody at Dawson has access to Office 365, a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that includes …
Bookmarking tools are key to the effective management of digital resources. They allow you to capture and save important information to read later. These are tools you can use to bookmark, annotate and share resources you come across online.
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2019/10/some-of-best-bookmarking-tools-for.html…
This article provides resources to tackle this challenge, by engaging with these concerns under the banner of three themes: Politics, Pedagogy and Practices. If we do not want to see concerned students, parents and unions protesting against AI in education, …
It has always been good advice to take what you see on the internet with a pinch of salt, but online video has lately become even less trustworthy. Deepfakes, clips altered or fabricated with an artificial intelligence technique called machine …