DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
While mainstream productivity apps have their advantages, breaking free from subscriptions doesn’t mean compromising on features. Open-source options provide flexibility, control, and all the essential features—without the price tag.
https://www.makeuseof.com/free-open-source-productivity-apps…
Stuck for a presentation idea, wrestling with your schedule, or looking to keep your inbox clean? These tools can do the grunt work for you.
https://www.makeuseof.com/generative-ai-tools-improve-work-life/…
The article discusses the emergence of Sora, a synthetic video engine following the likes of DALL-E and MidJourney, noting its advanced rendering and movement prediction capabilities but also highlighting its lack of a physical or causal understanding. It raises concerns …
You may be able to use some of these methods successfully today, but that could change in the future as websites clamp down on bypass methods. I hope that you support the websites that you read by signing up for …
There is a community effort to create open-source models that match the performance of state-of-the-art LLMs. These models can help improve research by sharing results. They can also help prevent a few wealthy organizations from having too much sway and …
EdWeek Research Center asked teachers, principals, and district leaders across the country this open-ended question: “What is the worst or most misguided use of educational technology you have experienced during your career in K-12 education?” See the answers below.
Sebastian Thrun, chairman and co-founder of Udacity, and Sal Khan, CEO of the Khan Academy, join ‘The Exchange’ to discuss the influence of AI technology on the software engineering landscape, disrupting higher education with mentorship programs and an emerging blended …
If you are on social media, you may have seen contacts posting what, at first glance, seems like a simple Tetris grid or the side of a Rubic’s cube made up of gray, yellow, and green boxes. Or maybe you …
Adapting to change by physically reopening campuses this fall has a price. I thus decided to explore the HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) pedagogical approach to think “outside the box” and respond to students’ needs. HyFlex provides a cloud solution for a …
How should we classify student-created educational videos? The authors look at some existing classification schemes and offer one of their own; major categories include things like talking heads, whiteboard videos, acted scenes, digital animation, demo, and more.
https://educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41239-021-00295-6…
Open licensing used in Open Educational Resources allows for teaching and learning techniques that are not possible with traditional copyright. There is a growing body of empirical research on open pedagogy. However, definitions and instantiations of open pedagogy vary in …
In September 2020, Profweb spoke to Anick Legault, a Psychology teacher and Adaptech Research Network Research Associate at Dawson who developed a series of video tutorials within the ECQ project designed to inspire teachers to use smartphones as part of …
On May 1, 2020 the Adaptech Research Network held two Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board meetings via Zoom. Participants from Canada, Germany, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the USA shared AI-related apps and devices as well as projects and articles. The …
Now if you want to create a videoconference in Zoom for your students you can do this inside Moodle itself. Login to Moodle, select your course, click “Turn Edit On” and then “Add an Activity or Resource”. Zoom will be …
IST compiled some useful resources for teachers during the college closure: