DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
LLMs can sound highly confident and well-structured, but they still frequently generate incorrect or fabricated information, especially for certain types of prompts, so their answers shouldn’t be trusted without verification.
https://www.makeuseof.com/llms-hallucinate-most-ask-them-do-this…
Language learning apps complement traditional methods by offering flexible, habit-building practice tools, but require selective use since no single app covers all skills effectively.
Anthropic has been on a tear lately. On April 16, the company released a major model update with Claude Opus 4.7. On April 17, Anthropic announced a powerful new tool called Claude Design that aims to do for design work …
Schools are caught between optimism and concern about technology’s impact on student wellbeing, struggling to find a balanced approach that leverages its benefits while minimizing its harms.
https://www.edweek.org/technology/why-schools-need-tech-and-why-they-dont…
If it feels like AI is developing too fast to keep up with, a group of Chinese researchers have some bad news – because they’ve developed a model that “evolves” on its own, creating better versions of itself with each …
As creative industries grapple with the prospect of AI-generated content, how can educators hone critical thinking skills in the book publishers of the future? Find advice here.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/questions-publishing-students-need-be-asking-about-genai…
Admissions to Texas computer science programs are down roughly 20%, professors said, but they still see a future for their students.
The replacement critique misses what AI actually does to thinking.
A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winner.
A free AI Activities Guide for Teachers provides practical, ready-to-use classroom activities and tools based on real educator needs for actionable ideas over theory.
How to reimagine the classic framework of learning objectives.
https://www.edweek.org/technology/opinion-blooms-taxonomy-needs-an-update-for-the-ai-age/2026/04…
AI agents are reshaping learning by performing tasks autonomously, but platforms like Moodle can detect them through behavioral analytics, shifting the real challenge from detection to validating authentic learning.
https://moodle.com/news/field-notes-when-ai-agents-show-up-to-class…
Highlights a curated set of lesser-known online tools that offer powerful features for free, helping users reduce reliance on costly subscriptions.
Veteran teacher Jen Roberts explains why generative tools are more than just a platform for cheating, they’re a way to make classrooms fairer and more human.
Gemma 4 is a local-first multimodal AI that runs on devices for better privacy, lower costs, and offline use, with flexible dense and sparse architectures for different tasks.