Giving their classmates feedback on writing is a complex skill for students to master, but it can be taught with scaffolded modeling.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-students-give-peer-feedback…
Google’s ‘.new’ shortcut now works with calendar entries
Google has added a new way to quickly create calendar entries when using a browser. If you head over to “cal.new” or “meeting.new,” you’ll find it takes you to a blank Google Calendar entry, ready for you to fill out …
How to Create and Run Polls in Google Slides
Slido is a polling service that recently released a free Google Slides add-on and companion Chrome extension. The combination of the two tools makes it easy for anyone who uses Google Slides to quickly create and launch polls directly within …
Meet Zoom, the new videoconferencing platform at Dawson
During many years, Dawson never had a standard videoconferencing platform. Each department could use the one of its choice. So during this period of time we had many different platforms being used here, like VIA, Adobe Connect, Webex and others.…
Social Media Has Not Destroyed A Generation
New findings suggest angst over the technology is misplaced. The science of social media needs to set higher standards for statistical analysis, avoid preposterous claims and study people for a longer time.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/social-media-has-not-destroyed-a-generation/…
Forget Grades and Turnitin. Start Trusting Students.
The relationship between professors and students can feel adversarial, with instructors creating rules and students following them, or not. Jesse Stommel offers a different approach: Start by trusting students.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Forget-GradesTurnitin/247404…
Second edition of Tony Bate’s “Teaching in a Digital Age” now published
The second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age is now available at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/teachinginadigitalagev2/
The first edition was published in 2015. The second edition is an update on the first edition. The main message, structure and content of the book, …
Learning Analytics and ‘Learning Design’
The results of applying learning analytics in this case are underwhelming, since there were no significant correlations with any of the independent student measurements. In other words there was no evidence that different clusters of student activities had any measurable …
How you can help transform the internet into a place of trust
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Presentation of the Week: Distributed Learning Technologies and Next Generation E-Learning
Six questions to ask yourself when reading about AI
Hardly a week goes by without some breathless bit of AI news touting a “major” new discovery or warning us we are about to lose our jobs to the newest breed of smart machines. Rest easy. As two scientists who …
Digital Wellbeing
Researching the needs of our audience to understand their values in an on-demand, personalised and fully connected world.
Wakelet-empowered Classroom Discussions
Ready to electrify your classroom with Wakelet-empowered classroom discussions? Wakelet has many features that make it ideal for use in the classroom. And, since it’s free, teachers can embrace it to do more than use it as a backchannel, twitter …
12 Free Tools To Permanently Delete Files From Your PC And Make Them Impossible To Recover
We always worried about compromising our personal data online, so we do all the necessary steps to protect our online accounts. But we forget to safeguard our system offline. In this article, we are going to share some best tools …
Using your OneDrive documents into your Moodle Course
Have you ever thought in having your files in the cloud and be able to access them anywhere, anytime and using any device? Everybody at Dawson has access to Office 365, a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that includes …