DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Improving your videos for your flipped classroom classes doesn’t require you to be a film expert; it does require that you review what you provide for your students with a critical eye to get the maximum learning.
http://rsu2teachertech.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/4-ways-to-maximize-your-flipped-classroom-videos/
This is the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, one of around 160 Waldorf schools in the country that subscribe to a teaching philosophy focused on physical activity and learning through creative, hands-on tasks. Those who endorse this approach say computers …
Siri is the new iPhone’s built-in personal assistant. Siri can listen, interpret, and respond to user voices, making it a huge leap forward in voice recognition technology. One area where Siri’s capabilities could be extraordinarily useful is in education, and …
Can video games be successfully used for education? The idea of “gamification” in the classroom has gained more space lately.
Check these signs and see if your classroom is behind the times.
http://blog.simplek12.com/education/17-signs-your-classroom-is-behind-the-times/…
Khan Academy announced that it has raised $5 million.The money is earmarked for several initiatives: expanding the Khan Academy faculty, creating a content management system so that others can use the program’s learning analytics system, and building an actual brick-and-mortar …
More kids than ever before are attending school from their living rooms, bedrooms and kitchens. The result: A radical rethinking of how education works.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204358004577030600066250144.html…
In survey, 16% of school tech directors expect to have 1 tablet per student within 5 years.
An analysis on the implementation of technology in the classrooms.
http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/classrooms-of-the-future-are-here-but-results-are-not/…
One of the more unfortunate buzzwords to appear in online education circles and the press is “flipping the classroom”. This means that instead of lecturing students in lessons in school, the teacher records the lecture as a video and uploads …
The medium is no longer just the message. Now, the medium is the platform and people now represent both the medium and the message. Their digital relationships define the nature of information discovery and its course through the social graph.…
What’s the next big thing? The Semantic Web is, according to some tech insiders (including Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Internet), the next big thing on the Internet.
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2011/09/semantic-web-technology-and-the-future-of-learning/…