DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Hundreds of thousands of teachers have had to adapt their teaching for an online world. Moving away from the technology used, there are many general teaching strategies that can be adopted for a virtual environment.
https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2021/02/25/making-remote-teaching-easier/…
The possibilities of IVR are myriad; it is a communication and representation tool that will be increasingly present in the architectural community. Immersive Virtual Reality is a technology that consists of creating or recreating an entirely virtual computer-generated environment in …
With the pivot to remote and hybrid learning, teachers needed a way to share their screen when instructing, but also for students to do the same while demonstrating understanding. This list, while not completely comprehensive of all whiteboard and annotation …
Random Group Generator by Classtools is an example of an EdTech tool designed specifically to help teachers tap into the educational potential of group work. As its name indicates, Random Group Generator enables you to easily create random teams in …
Far from technology being harmful for children, some thinkers argue that it is actively beneficial, teaching them the social skills we fear they are losing.
There’s a lot of information out there about using Zoom, and it can be hard to separate fact from fiction. You may have heard, for instance, that a meeting host can hear you when you’re muted. We are here to …
At Université Paris-Saclay, we have tried several new tools and methods, testing them with our students and sharing them among ourselves. Here are five tips that have improved (in part at least) our daily lives as lockdown lecturers.
A new update for Microsoft Word arriving next month is bringing a feature that has been long due. Predictive typing or the ‘Text Prediction’ feature will automatically suggest new words as you are typing a sentence. While it may be …
Critical pedagogy aims to deeply question our epistemological assumptions—about teaching, about education, about power, about expertise—and while this can be exhilarating, it is almost never a picnic.
https://www.seanmichaelmorris.com/reflections-on-teaching-through-the-screen/…
Microsoft has tried its hardest to convince people that working on the cloud is the future, but some users like the idea of owning a product instead of leasing it out for a monthly fee. If the words “subscription model” …
Mote lets you add voice comments to Google Classroom, Slides, and Docs. As of yesterday it lets you add voice comments to Gmail messages. Mote recordings in Gmail can be played by anyone who receives your email. Recipients don’t need …
Miro is an excellent whiteboard platform to boost your collaborative team work. You can use it to host online meetings, run collective brainstorming sessions, and organize remote workshops. Miro’s intuitive canvas offers a wide variety of features to help you …
A newly released Moodle plugin, “Debate”, allows learners to take sides in a discussion and actively express their opinions.
https://moodle.com/news/online-classroom-debate-moodle-plugin/…
Reinforcement learning is the branch of artificial intelligence that has become renowned for mastering board and video games. Reinforcement learning models seek to maximize rewards. In the case of online ads, the RL model will try to find the ad …
Teachers spend countless hours correcting student work because feedback is critical to students’ learning process. Regrettably, an important portion of such feedback is not understood or deemed irrelevant by students, or worse yet, left unread. How can we get students …