DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks alarmed by a race for human attention.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia…
Providing feedback with a report card alone is a thing of the past for 21st-century educators.
https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2017/05/4-ways-technology-shaping-future-grading…
Model shows how technology can maintain research-proven effective learning tactics.
Just last week, Udacity declared an intention to move away entirely from open access courses. Company Vice President Clarissa Shen said MOOCs “are dead.”
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/moocs-are-dead-whats-next-uh-oh…
In many classrooms, teachers don’t start realizing internet home access challenges until October or November when online work for specific students is spotty or non-existent. It is easy to assume (like I did) that students were not just academically inclined …
The Best Teacher Youtube Channels selected from thousands of Teacher channels on youtube and ranked based on youtube channel subscribers and popularity.
You’ve probably heard the term “machine learning” quite a bit — basically, it refers to training computers to learn without directly programming them. To help us wrap our minds around these ideas, Google created Teachable Machine, a web tool that …
Becky Willis is the VP of Enterprise Engagement at EdCast. Based on Becky’s background and experiences, in this interview, she provides a good understanding of what the next generation learning platform looks like.
http://www.webcourseworks.com/next-generation-learning-platform/…
Video in the classroom is powerful, because it has the ability to make the classroom come alive, and make meaningful learning experiences and connections. Video allows you to deliver long-lasting images, and reach children with various learning styles. But how …
The next wave of educational technology innovation must get the faculty on board and make them central to institutions’ and companies’ strategies, Mike Silagadze argues.
Cengage will offer open educational resources, curated and adapted to include proprietary assessment tools, from $25 per student for general education courses.
To enable us comprehend what’s hot and so forth, Forrester published a TechRadar report regarding Artificial Intelligence (for application development experts), a detailed breakdown of 13 techs companies ought to consider integrating to help human decision-making. In view of Forrester’s …
We’ve all been there: a frantic search for a document you know you saved but just can’t find. It’s been deleted, but you’re sure that you didn’t do it — at least on purpose. But fear not, Microsoft Word has …