DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
I’ve been looking for a free speech recognition tool to use with Google Docs since the unveiling of Chrome extensions. The time has finally come with the Docs Add-on “Speech Recognition.”
http://edtechtofu.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/finally-google-docs-speech-recognition.html
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Nadine Kaslow, Ph.D., professor and vice chair at Emory University’s Department of Psychiatry and president of the American Psychological Association, says apps can help promote mental health through participation in activities designed to reduce symptoms and improve psychological functioning.
At the heart of the media’s chattiest technology is a hollow sharing economy. A personal investigation into just how little traffic Twitter’s maelstrom actually contributes to websites.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/the-unbearable-lightness-of-tweeting/385484/
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Scientists have identified the part of the brain that teachers use to detect when their pupils do not understand what they are being taught.
In a study of thousands of students and hundreds of businesspeople, they found that most retained only half of what they heard — and this immediately after they’d heard it. Six months later, most people only retained 25%.
https://hbr.org/2015/02/everything-you-need-to-know-about-becoming-a-better-listener
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Most of the colleges that are imposing bans are located in Britain, including the University of London and London’s City University. Unfortunately for students with traditional timepieces, the way these schools implement their ban is by requiring that all watches …
There is no doubt technology plays a critical role in education today. With this comes the need for resources, management, and a game plan for putting all of this wonderful technology to use. With that in mind, I have seen …
We dig out the best free and paid-for apps on the App store right now.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/software/6893/45-best-iphone-and-ipad-apps-of-2015/page/0/1…
The 12th edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education. This report is also the …
Flipboard, the newsreading app that has amassed 50 million monthly users on mobile devices, arrives on the web. On the bigger screen, Flipboard is big, beautiful, and responsive. In moving to the desktop, Flipboard hopes to open up a big …
From inspiring life-long learning to empowering teachers, these organizations are taking the education business to school.
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Wikipedia is now an embedded feature of most students’ study and universities must do more to help them to utilise the user-generated encyclopaedia.
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Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large.
http://www.teachthought.com/learning/learning-models-learning-theories-index/
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