DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
In a throwback to its college-only days, Facebook has launched a new type of community page for schools. Within individual schools’ Groups for Schools pages, their students and faculty members can exchange files, create events and message each other.
http://mashable.com/2012/04/11/facebook-groups-for-schools/…
One Laptop Per Child was a good idea, a noble and ambitious one at that. Originally proposed in 2006, OLPC aimed to build an inexpensive laptop that would be sold to governments in the developing world and made available in …
Here are five future technologies that will completely change the learning space and revolutionize the techniques we use within it.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/five-future-education-technologies-nick-grantham…
PBL at its heart and soul is a process that can include any teaching style in it including simulations, research, individual and group work, and yes even lecturing. So here is how lectures fit into the PBL model.
http://teachpaperless.blogspot.ca/2012/04/how-to-lecture-in-pbl-classroom.html…
Learn how to give personalized feedback of your student’s work without having to cart home stacks of papers.
http://edublog.techsmith.com/2012/03/personalized-feedback-with-screenchomp.html…
A list of 10 great iPad apps that will help you to better integrate iPads in your classroom.
http://events.ncea.org/blog/2012/04/12/how-to-integrate-ipads-into-the-classroom/…
Would you like to download the entire Wikipedia on your computer or mobile phone for offline reading? Well, here are some good options to consider.
http://www.labnol.org/software/download-wikipedia-offline/20012/…
Our students are expecting to be able to use social media applications and tools in their regular school lives. It’s only a matter of time before schools can no longer function without it. This infographic featured on Mindshift has more.…
The 40 page guide is designed to help teachers who have never used Google Documents.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/04/google-docs-for-teachers-free-ebook.html…
A list of free Plagiarism tools that teachers can use to deter students from cheating on assignments.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/04/free-plagiarism-detector-tools-for.html…
The article shows that teachers who are dealing with new technologies being implemented into their schools and classrooms must be nurtured in tandem with the students. With changes this broad, only by working together and supporting everyone affected will our …
An interesting article on the future of the Learning Management Systems.
http://www.tonybates.ca/2012/04/04/why-learning-management-systems-are-not-going-away/…
I love project-based learning. Why? Because my students do. Some of my favourite PBL adventures are the Biology 30 projects due at semester’s end. These aren’t the only projects we pursue throughout the semester; we also work on a number …