DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
LibreTexts Forge is an assignment platform designed to support Open Pedagogy by enabling renewable, collaborative, long-form projects with built-in analytics for instructors. It helps students create meaningful, public, openly licensed work while supporting learner-centered, scalable teaching across disciplines.
https://libretexts.org/blog/2025/06/11/introducing-forge-new-innovation-open-pedagogy…
Generative AI is now widely used by instructional designers to speed up tasks like brainstorming, drafting, media creation, and accessibility, boosting efficiency but not fully replacing human expertise. However, risks remain, including bias, inaccuracies, privacy concerns, and over-reliance, meaning quality, …
AI notetakers like Read AI, Fireflies, Fathom, and Granola transcribe and summarize online meetings, while newer physical devices record in-person conversations and generate AI-powered notes, action items, and insights.
Moltbook is a social network where AI bots chat with each other, mixing practical technical discussions with quirky or fictional role-playing that blurs the line between real information and invented personas. This shared AI “story world” can create confusing, coordinated …
OpenAI is testing a “confessions” system that trains new AI models to openly report their own mistakes, rule-breaking, uncertainties, and possible hallucinations through a second output channel. It’s not a ChatGPT feature yet, but early research suggests it could become …
New UK research finds ‘extremely personalized’ AI math tutors don’t hallucinate or produce unsafe messages in sessions with kids.
New technologies and academic funding cuts are upending the ways we learn today. Newly enrolled student Annalee Newitz finds some silver linings.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26835691-900-is-the-future-of-education-outside-universities…
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
From AI companions combating loneliness to quantum-safe security, Amazon’s CTO predicts what’s coming in the years ahead.
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/werner-vogels-amazon-cto-predictions-2026…
Google’s Live Transcribe, originally downloaded as a simple offline tool to capture ideas, revealed itself to be far more powerful when it effortlessly transcribed a podcast by accident. Available on Android 5.0 or newer, it’s one of the most capable …
Academia is unprepared for the rise in chatbot use among students, but with the right AI tools, personalized learning could soon become a reality.
A Pi Zero 2 W with a Whisplay HAT avoids the flaws of smartphones and failed AI gadgets by being a fully DIY, open, fixable AI chat device you actually own. Its modular design lets you swap AI backends freely, …
Coursera is turning to AI because its peer-assessment system is failing and the platform must keep scaling to attract investment. The question is whether AI stabilizes its declining credibility or ends up accelerating that decline.
https://www.classcentral.com/report/coursera-peer-assessment-still-broken…
Google’s Gemini for Education expanded dramatically in 2025, now used in over 1,000 U.S. higher-ed institutions and reaching more than 10 million students, with over 150 new AI features launched globally. Educators worldwide report major time savings and transformative impacts, …
AI is increasingly shaping education, with some US private schools replacing traditional lessons with personalised, AI-assisted learning on laptops. Meanwhile, experts warn that online scams are rising worldwide, sharing how victims are deceived and what to watch out for.