DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
A word cloud is a visual representation of the frequencies of words in a text. Teachers can use word clouds for a variety of instructional purposes from creating class groups using students’ names to reflecting on lesson plans.
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2019/12/word-cloud-generators-to-use-in-your.html…
Do it yourself is more than just a trend for crafts and home improvements — it is an ethos that has reached higher education.
Over the past few years, the education industry has been developed in significant measures. With technological interventions, education has come a long way. Though technology alone may not improve education, it can act as a catalyst for a better learning …
Most of us have been online long enough to know the internet isn’t what it used to be. Under the seemingly seamless experiences and interfaces lies a swarm of invasive and exploitative processes that are built for profit. Here are …
Did someone recently recommend you listen to a podcast? If your response was, “What’s a podcast?” we’ve got the answer, and more! Here’s a crash course on podcasts and how you can listen to them on your smartphone.
https://www.howtogeek.com/448805/how-to-listen-to-podcasts-on-iphone-ipad-or-android/
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Most students take a laptop with them to lectures. But are there times when they might be better off taking a pad and pen?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191122-when-the-best-way-to-take-notes-is-by-hand…
This is an artificial intelligence that reviews your source code and mades recommendations (no doubt also gathering statistics as it scans). “It helps you find the most expensive lines of code that hurt application performance and keep you up all …
We all have different needs and preferences when it comes to consuming the media in our lives. Our students are the same. Some need webpages read aloud, some need different color schemes or fonts, and others need captions enabled on …
There is a vast pedagogical literature spelling out the benefits of student engagement and active participation. My aim was to adopt some form of active learning to enhance my traditional lectures, and to improve my students’ class experience.
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You’re trying to purchase an item or log into an account. You enter your credentials, but before you proceed, you need to prove that you’re a human being. Tick the box marked “I’m not a robot”. You can see a …
This is a potential roadmap (among many others)… a guide to getting fit to learn how to learn in (only a few weeks away from) the third decade of the 21st century and to teach and educate children who will …
Multi.link is a new service that makes it easy to share all of your social media profiles, websites you own, videos you produce, and pictures on one simple page.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2019/12/multilink-convenient-way-to-share-all.html…
As educators, we use a variety of resources in our classroom to enhance a lesson. Knowing when our decision to use something falls under fair use and when it is a copyright violation can get tricky, but it doesn’t have …