Using videos in teaching and learning would help not only students but teachers as well. The online nature of videos allows them to be shared at all hours of the day or night throughout the world. By using videos to …
14 ways to turn your classroom into a game show
Game shows are fun to watch and even more fun to be a part of. There are lots of ways to bring game show style learning to your classroom. Here are 14 ideas plus tools and templates to get started.…
Easy Ways to Add Polls & Quizzes to Existing Slideshows
The slideshows I use in my classroom and those that I use for conference keynotes include some interactive components. I do this in my classroom as a means to quickly gauge my students’ understanding of the lesson. There are a …
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Where Does Artificial Intelligence Fit in the Classroom? Keynote by Hod Lipson
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15+ Tools for Student Voice
It’s important to note that simply using the tools doesn’t provide opportunity for or empowerment of student voice. It’s all about how you use it.
Meet Zoom, the new videoconferencing platform at Dawson
During many years, Dawson never had a standard videoconferencing platform. Each department could use the one of its choice. So during this period of time we had many different platforms being used here, like VIA, Adobe Connect, Webex and others.…
Teaching Students to Give Peer Feedback
Giving their classmates feedback on writing is a complex skill for students to master, but it can be taught with scaffolded modeling.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-students-give-peer-feedback…
Google’s ‘.new’ shortcut now works with calendar entries
Google has added a new way to quickly create calendar entries when using a browser. If you head over to “cal.new” or “meeting.new,” you’ll find it takes you to a blank Google Calendar entry, ready for you to fill out …
How to Create and Run Polls in Google Slides
Slido is a polling service that recently released a free Google Slides add-on and companion Chrome extension. The combination of the two tools makes it easy for anyone who uses Google Slides to quickly create and launch polls directly within …
Meet Zoom, the new videoconferencing platform at Dawson
During many years, Dawson never had a standard videoconferencing platform. Each department could use the one of its choice. So during this period of time we had many different platforms being used here, like VIA, Adobe Connect, Webex and others.…
How much does Google REALLY know about you? One click can reveal what the internet search giant tells advertisers about you (but how accurate is it?)
Internet users can find out exactly what information Google thinks it knows about them – and then shares with advertisers – from their search history, including relationship status and even whether they have children.
Social Media Has Not Destroyed A Generation
New findings suggest angst over the technology is misplaced. The science of social media needs to set higher standards for statistical analysis, avoid preposterous claims and study people for a longer time.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/social-media-has-not-destroyed-a-generation/…
Forget Grades and Turnitin. Start Trusting Students.
The relationship between professors and students can feel adversarial, with instructors creating rules and students following them, or not. Jesse Stommel offers a different approach: Start by trusting students.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Forget-GradesTurnitin/247404…
Second edition of Tony Bate’s “Teaching in a Digital Age” now published
The second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age is now available at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/teachinginadigitalagev2/
The first edition was published in 2015. The second edition is an update on the first edition. The main message, structure and content of the book, …