DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Good discussion and review of a work futures study Ahead By A Decade: Employment in 2030 published last week by the Brookfield Institute in comparison with similar work done by the “Canadian Occupational Projection System” (COPS).
http://higheredstrategy.com/work-in-2030/
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This book is meant to be a short course to help you prepare to move your teaching online. Do a chapter a day. Or just pick the ones you like.
Microsoft Teams has features like a virtual classroom in which there are virtual classes for learning. Chat and video conference interactions, to task submissions and quizzes. Everything makes Microsoft Teams a comfortable place to study in virtual classrooms. However, still …
We’re seeking and scrolling in the dark. We’re doing this literally, as we sit up at 2 a.m. in our bedrooms, scrolling and clicking and unable to sleep. And figuratively, clicking through mazes of media messages on social media, pushing …
Just Read is a Chrome extension that can help you turn your online reading into a pleasurable experience. It provides you with a distraction-free environment where you can focus on the content of your articles. With a single click, Just …
MoodleNet version 1.0 has launched. It’s “a new open social media platform for educators, initially focused on the collaborative curation of collections of open resources. MoodleNet will be an integral part of the Moodle ecosystem, sustainably empowering communities of educators …
In May 2020, Patricia Lapointe, pedagogical counsellor at Cégep Limoilou, interviewed (at a distance!) 2 teachers from her college about their experience with the emergency modifications that had to be made to their courses in the context of the COVID-19 …
We are constantly being told that AI will be omnipresent in the coming years and that the education sector must absolutely comprehend this technology in order to prepare the adults of tomorrow. But what are the exploitable avenues of exploration? …
Teachers and others keeping up with their professional development need to do far more than take the occasional class. And John Spencer writes here, “teachers all over the world are meeting in small groups, doing book studies to refine their …
Take time to know your students, face and name, individually or in small groups if the numbers allow it. Create a hospitable environment and open relationship that makes it easier for students to share with you. Empathize with students and …
The creative arts programs at Dawson College figured out an innovative way to hold a final vernissage: a 3D videogame that mimics the campus.
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1969910
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If schools systematically combine digital and face-to-face activities, in the event of a crisis they will only have to adjust the relative amounts of in-person and distance learning, instead of having to implement radical changes.
https://bold.expert/the-post-covid-school/
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An internal Facebook report presented to executives in 2018 found that the company was well aware that its product, specifically its recommendation engine, stoked divisiveness and polarization.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270659/facebook-division-news-feed-algorithms…