DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Instead of going in and writing programs that solve the problems, we write programs that learn to solve the problems from examples,” Mr. Olah says about machine learning and his research at Google.
http://observer.com/2015/09/google-releases-video-about-their-machine-learning-research/…
Having taken one week of the course and benefitted from conversations with a member of the production team, I wanted to share my learning: from my expectations for the class, to the unexpected and delightful experience I had as …
Here are 15 educational resources and blogs that teachers and educators can use in the upcoming academic year to make their educational process much more productive and enjoyable. Each educational resource may offer something to different educators in various …
Short videos from YouTube and other sources can be quite helpful in introducing topics to students and or reinforcing concepts that you have taught. The following tools allow you to add comments and questions to videos that you share …
Investing heavily in school computers and classroom technology does not improve pupils’ performance, says a global study from the OECD.
An educator shows how technological anxiety can be overcome by connecting with a device personally.
Many schools use Google Drive as their method to back up and share files, and the free Google Drive app can be used on the iPad with Book Creator too.
How do different cultures view humanity differently? Google it. Literally Google it. You see information differently–something that’s always accessible. And you see knowledge as searchable, even though that’s not how it works.
http://www.teachthought.com/learning/how-google-impacts-the-way-students-think/…
It is both curriculum and credential, and it is built in concert with the standard-bearing companies where you’ll be interviewing: Google, AT&T, Autodesk, Cloudera, Salesforce, Amazon, Facebook, GitHub, and more.
http://blog.udacity.com/2015/08/what-is-a-nanodegree-and-why-should-you-earn-one.html…
Although I’m no longer affiliated with Google, I still use these seven Gmail tips that have a daily impact on my work to this day.
http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/09/16/7-things-i-learned-about-gmail-working-at-google/…
Google’s added new features to Docs, Sheets and Slides, its online productivity tools. But you don’t have to be a student to use these cool new features, since they’re available to anyone with a Google account. Here are our …
One of the main problems with our data being sent to foreign servers, they say, is that Canadians forsake their otherwise strong constitutional protections by doing so.
This award-winning platform combines three useful functionalities: an online maths textbook, workbook and mark book. Students can use Mathspace to get help with their math problems. It allows them to work on online math exercises and get instant feedback …