DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
How is digital technology changing education? An easier question to answer perhaps is: How is digital technology not changing education. Read more to learn about how digital technology is revolutionizing the face of schools and education on a global …
This is a piece of marketing published by D2L some time in the last year. It’s a nice overview of how to plan for the use of data analytics and how to work with the results. “This isn’t about …
Researchers from the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Thales, the University of Bordeaux in Paris-Sud, and Evry have developed an artificial synapse called a memristor directly on a chip. It paves the way for intelligent systems that …
Ultimately, we want to prepare young people to change the world—when they are equipped and ready to do just that.
The Windows 10 Creators Update is making it easier to understand what information the operating system wants.
While it’s important to protect your privacy, it doesn’t mean that you should sign up to a VPN service and tunnel all your internet traffic through VPN servers. Learn how to create your own VPN server in 15 minutes.…
Will teachers be replaced by robots? Not likely, but there will be areas where the machine learning boom will positively impact education. Better yet, machine learning will free teachers up to do better what they do best – that …
Andy Alferovs, managing director of Kortext, the UK’s leading digital textbook solutions provider, discusses how innovations in EdTech and analytics are leading to a step-change in higher education which could lead to a more flexible, personalised teaching and learning …
There is a new tool to help people read research literature, instead of getting stuck behind paywalls. It’s an extension for Chrome and Firefox that links you to free full-text as you browse research articles. Hit a paywall? No …
Search through multiple sources, such as Google, Flickr, and SoundCloud, to find content with the Creative Commons license.
Brave, a new web browser challenging bigger rivals like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, wants to take privacy on the internet to the next level.
As more CEGEPs in our network are using Office 365, we are starting to hear about the applications that are available for educational use that come with this tool. Comparable often to the Google group of applications, Office 365 has …
Google Hangouts are easy to use and help people and classrooms get connected easily. Some of its features can be game-changing!
http://ditchthattextbook.com/2015/01/05/6-ways-google-hangouts-can-make-any-teachers-life-better/…