DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
The Pocketalk Classic instantly translates your spoken words into one of 74 languages — and back again. Plus, it comes with two years of global mobile data, so there are no extra fees.
https://www.cnet.com/news/the-incredible-pocketalk-classic-mobile-translator-is-on-sale-for-99/…
Google spoke to more than 5,000 employees to discover these remote work best practices. They provide a lesson in emotional intelligence.
The pandemic ushered in a golden age of remote test proctoring – but students say the technology can be invasive and biased.
One idea that I’d like to nominate for consideration would be a commitment to design every course as an online course. That’s right, every single course. Even if there are no current plans to expand online offerings in, say, a …
Thirty years ago, Hinton’s belief in neural networks was contrarian. Now it’s hard to find anyone who disagrees, he says.
In this featured report, we present considerations and good practices to facilitate teamwork at a distance. Then, we contextualize these practices by presenting the Microsoft Teams digital environment.
An interesting tool, developed by UBC which allows a group of people get together to watch a YouTube stream (ideally, a live stream, but it could be an Office rerun). In the sidebar is a video chat, so people can …
AI can read your emotional response to advertising and your facial expressions in a job interview. But if it can already do all this, what happens next?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/14/1010474/ai-reads-human-emotions-should-it/…
Discord’s founders just wanted to create a way to talk to their gamer friends. They created something much bigger.
Atlas of the Future is offering a series of talks on the future of education. “Every Thursday, for seven weeks, an international expert will connect online to present their ideas about the future of education and answer questions from the …
Darknet, Dark Web, Deep Web, and Surface Web — every tech enthusiast had come across these terminologies without knowing its actual meaning. Sometimes even the experts get confused with these terms too. We hope this post will clear some air …
Google just launched the Document AI (DocAI) platform, a console for document processing hosted in Google Cloud, in preview.
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The shock of nearly all colleges and universities moving their classes to emergency online learning resulted in several lessons that apply well into the future. As we move into planning for 2021-2022 and a post-pandemic college/university experience, what are the …
The argument is simply this: “there are benefits of online learning that do not exist in face-to-face teaching, whereas there are no benefits in face-to-face teaching that could not exist in online teaching.” But what about in practice, where we …
A new higher education institution is opening in London next autumn which will not teach traditional separate subjects – but will be able to award its own degrees.