Category: Edtech

Game shows are fun to watch and even more fun to be a part of. There are lots of ways to bring game show style learning to your classroom. Here are 14 ideas plus tools and templates to get started.…

The slideshows I use in my classroom and those that I use for conference keynotes include some interactive components. I do this in my classroom as a means to quickly gauge my students’ understanding of the lesson. There are a …

It’s important to note that simply using the tools doesn’t provide opportunity for or empowerment of student voice.  It’s all about how you use it. 

https://jakemiller.net/tools-for-student-voice/…

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 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 …

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 …

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.…

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/…

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…

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, …

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 …