DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Formerly known as Bard, Gemini is a general use generative AI chatbot like ChatGPT that integrates with Google’s other products and can work with both text and photos to generate its responses.
https://www.slashgear.com/1516136/ways-ggemini-ai-can-be-useful…
This is Cory Doctorow at his absolute best, a definitive statement describing enshittification and suggestions on how to counter it. Enshittification, writes Doctorow, is “a three stage process: First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users …
You may have a decent job now, but you can’t be sure that AI won’t replace you. It can work 24/7, process information faster than humans, and minimize errors. Knowledge is power, so becoming aware of the jobs that might …
Struggling with email overload? Here are some simple steps to create Gmail filters and organize your inbox effortlessly.
Cobalt.tools is completely open source and features no ads, trackers, or analytics. It also couldn’t be simpler to use: just copy the URL for the media you want to download and paste it on the site. Your download will start …
It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, …
Make sure that your work is original with these free online plagiarism checkers. Check URLs, documents, and more.
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Will artificial intelligence make human writing less relevant? Will every article we read one day be written by ChatGPT or one of its rivals or successors? Will the writer in the picture on Zinsser’s wall be replaced by a soulless …
This guide is designed to show you how to master any topic with the help of Google Bard. We live in an era where we are inundated with an overwhelming amount of information. In such a world, managing our time …
What skills are essential to develop to live in a future with AI? What can we do to prepare students to face a future workplace with AI? In this article, I will provide guidelines to foster the development of human …
“For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation,” Kotsko, whose classes largely include humanities and philosophy instruction, writes. “Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem …
Researchers analyzed a child’s learning process captured on first-person video—via a light, head-mounted camera (shown here)—and trained a multimodal AI system through the eyes and ears of a single child.
The school environment is changing rapidly, as a result of emerging technologies and ongoing problems with student achievement and mental health. Last year saw new research insights in critical areas. Here’s a look at some of the findings from some …
The penetration of AI and the rise of EdTech companies herald a promising future. Its potential for personalizing learning and improving writing is remarkable. But the potential dilution of human interaction and reliance on artificial intelligence are real concerns. Navigating …
Arc Search crawls the web for information, shortlists six websites, verifies and extracts useful content, and then presents it as a custom webpage. This webpage has the answer you seek right at the top, like the title before a lengthy …