DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
No single approach is going to completely solve Canada’s skills training gap, but continuing education can play a huge role in easing the burden for both employers and employees. Continuing education providers must deliver strong professional development opportunities to …
Despite the apparent benefits of paper, Mangen and other reading researchers caution the screen-reading vs. traditional reading question has nuances that scientists have yet to fully understand. http://www.fastcodesign.com/3048297/evidence/everything-science-knows-about-reading-on-screens…
Thanks to Kalev Leetaru, a Yahoo! Fellow in Residence at Georgetown University, you can now head over to a new collection at Flickr and search through an archive of 2.6 million public domain images, all extracted from books, magazines …
It offers a mobile app (currently Android, with iOS to follow soon) that promises to monitor an array of online accounts for suspicious login or attempted login activity.
Slides from de Mobo is a very good app that allows you to remotely control your presentations using your iOS or Android device. Slides works best with presentations on Google Drive, Prezi, Slideshare, Scribd, Speakerdeck and Issuu. To be …
Brain based learning is an innovative technique of teaching students lessons. The principles are based on scientific research about the connection of the brain’s ability to absorb more information by applying non-traditional techniques.
http://topeducationboard.com/discover-brain-based-learning-and-how-to-use-it-in-your-classroom/…
Plagiarism detection software from vendors such as Turnitin is often criticized for labeling clumsy student writing as plagiarism. Now a set of new tests suggests the software lets too many students get away with it.
Imagine a tool that can clip websites, track your random thoughts, record your daughter’s university class schedule (and tuition receipts) and pull up a recipe for Thai Crunch Salad with Peanut Dressing at 5:30PM when you have 20 minutes …
What happens when a school throws out the textbooks and tells teachers that they are going to become authors themselves by creating curriculum in real time as the semester progresses? That’s what the String Theory School, a charter school …
Find tips, strategies, tools, and other resources to help new teachers successfully integrate technology to facilitate educational objectives in the classroom.
http://www.edutopia.org/article/new-teachers-technology-integration-resources…
Teaching in the 21-century is an altogether different phenomenon; never before could learning be happening the way it is now — everywhere, all the time, on any possible topic, supporting any possible learning style or preference. But what does …
A great list of PC software divided in categories.
Leaders at the University of Adelaide sees the future in online learning, not stand-and-deliver instruction.