DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
This framework is useful if you’re trying to make sense of how people learning together online. The idea of intellectual capital is what drives crowdsourced knowledge banks like Wikipedia, iTunesU, and even YouTube.
http://teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/framework-learning-digital-networks/…
Here are some highlights from the complete list of Free Online Courses. We’ve added a few unconventional/vintage courses in the mix just to keep things interesting.
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/a-master-list-of-1200-free-courses-from-top-universities.html…
Windows PCs don’t have to slow down over time. Whether your PC has gradually become slower or it suddenly ground to a halt a few minutes ago, there could be quite a few reasons for that slowness.
http://www.howtogeek.com/228570/10-quick-ways-to-speed-up-a-slow-windows-pc/…
With an acceptance rate of 6%, Harvard University is one of toughest universities to get into. But now with the magic of internet and virtual reality, you can pretend to be a student in Harvard’s largest on-campus class.
There’s so much information available to us right now that it’s very easy to overlook or simply forget about things that could actually help us get to where we want to go. I’m going to share with you some …
By taking care of your PC — and by being aware of the factors that can damage it — you can make it run smoother and last longer, thus saving you headaches and money in the long run. Whether …
Windows can do a lot more than you may think. Some things are alien even to respectable computer technicians. Some of these advanced features have been around for years, decades even. Some are brand new in Windows 10, or …
Oslo-based browser company Opera Software has implemented a free VPN directly in Opera 40, allowing users to create secure connections to one of Opera’s five global servers, located in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Singapore, and the Netherlands, to choose …
Students who have the current technology (or will be snatching up the new) can access powerful smartphone tools for producing great school projects. Areas like PBL and STEM learning call for imaginative and innovative solutions to complex problems. These …
In the latest Global Shapers Survey of 25,000 young people from across the world, 77.84% of respondents reported having taken online courses in the past. So is online learning the future of education?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/is-online-learning-the-future-of-education/…
Today we are bringing to your radar two more presentation tools with huge educational potential. You can use them to design visually attractive presentations that include a wide range of multimedia content such as text, sound, videos, images, PDFs …
Researchers at Sony have been working on AI-generated music for years, and has previously used AI to create impressive jazz tracks. But this is the first time the Sony CSL Research Laboratory has released pop music composed by AI, …
It has open-sourced an algorithm that describes images with 94 percent accuracy.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/23/googles-ai-is-getting-really-good-at-captioning-photos/…