DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Professors and students remain divided on generative AI in college, balancing its benefits as a learning aid and tutor against concerns that it weakens critical thinking, authorship, and the educational process itself.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/03/nx-s1-5716176/ai-college-students-professors…
Learning Analytics leverages students’ digital interaction data to study and optimize learning processes, but while expanding research collaboration, it also raises significant privacy concerns, addressed here through a publicly shared, de-identified clickstream dataset with documented validation.
Anthropic has launched Anthropic Academy, a free training platform offering practical AI courses to help students, professionals, and developers effectively use and integrate its Claude models into everyday work.
https://in.mashable.com/tech/106518/want-ai-certification-anthropics-claude-courses-are-now-free…
The Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education by Hazel Farrell and Ken McCarthy (2025). A critique of the Manifesto’s claim that students “must learn with GenAI before they can question it” argues that firsthand use is not a prerequisite …
An exploratory study found that while most students used a genAI chatbot to boost essay performance and engage in higher-level cognition, many offloaded key self-regulated learning processes, highlighting both benefits and risks of AI integration in digital learning.
https://learningletters.org/index.php/learn/article/view/61…
Three years after ChatGPT ignited academic integrity concerns, new AI agents like Advait Paliwal’s “Einstein” can now autonomously log into Canvas and complete entire online courses, fundamentally challenging traditional models of teaching and assessment.
With rising AI subscription costs, many users can instead run powerful quantized models locally on their own computers using free tools, avoiding recurring fees altogether.
https://www.makeuseof.com/free-tools-run-powerful-ai-on-pc-without-subscription…
From AI study assistants to presentation builders, these free tools can help teachers, students, and parents work smarter.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91501083/edtech-tools-worth-using…
Coursera’s AI in Higher Education Report, based on a survey of 4,200+ students and faculty across five countries, finds that AI is now widely used to personalize learning, deliver real-time feedback, and boost productivity in universities worldwide.
Sven Nyholm argues that while AI can tempt students to outsource thinking and risk diminishing meaning, whether it enriches or undermines our lives ultimately depends on how we define and cultivate meaning through truth-seeking, moral growth, and engagement with the …
ETS has launched a new AI competency test for teachers, signaling AI’s growing role in K–12 education and aiming to assess educators’ ability to understand, evaluate, and ethically use AI in the classroom.
Despite its platform flaws, YouTube’s powerful player, enhanced by transcript search, sleep timers, timestamp links, smart navigation shortcuts, quality controls, and privacy tools—offers one of the most versatile and feature-rich video experiences online.
https://lifehacker.com/tech/10-hacks-every-youtube-user-should-know…
Focusing on AI-driven cheating misses the bigger issue: as increasingly autonomous systems reshape teaching, research, and administration, universities risk eroding the human ecosystem of mentorship, skill-building, and intellectual formation that defines their core purpose.
While Excel itself isn’t the issue, Copilot streamlines the tedious work of formulas and data cleanup, letting users focus on analyzing insights instead of wrestling with syntax.
https://www.makeuseof.com/ways-i-use-copilot-to-make-excel-spreadsheets-easier…
Stephen Downes is interviewed by Geoff Cain for Episode #61 of Simon Says: Educate! on AI ethics in education, alongside insights and slides from Ronald Lethcoe highlighting how AI ethics frameworks reflect the values and assumptions of those who create …