DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Schools are caught between optimism and concern about technology’s impact on student wellbeing, struggling to find a balanced approach that leverages its benefits while minimizing its harms.
https://www.edweek.org/technology/why-schools-need-tech-and-why-they-dont…
If it feels like AI is developing too fast to keep up with, a group of Chinese researchers have some bad news – because they’ve developed a model that “evolves” on its own, creating better versions of itself with each …
As creative industries grapple with the prospect of AI-generated content, how can educators hone critical thinking skills in the book publishers of the future? Find advice here.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/questions-publishing-students-need-be-asking-about-genai…
Admissions to Texas computer science programs are down roughly 20%, professors said, but they still see a future for their students.
The replacement critique misses what AI actually does to thinking.
A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winner.
A free AI Activities Guide for Teachers provides practical, ready-to-use classroom activities and tools based on real educator needs for actionable ideas over theory.
LLMs can sound highly confident and well-structured, but they still frequently generate incorrect or fabricated information, especially for certain types of prompts, so their answers shouldn’t be trusted without verification.
https://www.makeuseof.com/llms-hallucinate-most-ask-them-do-this…
Language learning apps complement traditional methods by offering flexible, habit-building practice tools, but require selective use since no single app covers all skills effectively.
Anthropic has been on a tear lately. On April 16, the company released a major model update with Claude Opus 4.7. On April 17, Anthropic announced a powerful new tool called Claude Design that aims to do for design work …
Highlights a curated set of lesser-known online tools that offer powerful features for free, helping users reduce reliance on costly subscriptions.
Veteran teacher Jen Roberts explains why generative tools are more than just a platform for cheating, they’re a way to make classrooms fairer and more human.
Gemma 4 is a local-first multimodal AI that runs on devices for better privacy, lower costs, and offline use, with flexible dense and sparse architectures for different tasks.
As AI begins to replicate human work, the real concern shifts from cheating to a deeper question: what meaning do learning and work hold in a world where many already feel disconnected from what they do?
https://marcwatkins.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-students-stop-believing…
The article critiques AI in education as leading to “cognitive surrender,” but reframes it as a matter of trust, arguing AI can function like books or writing: a tool that guides, not replaces, human thinking.
https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/an-illustrated-guide-to-resisting…