AI chatbots have arrived on UK university campuses. But is the hype justified?
Presenting Nathalie Bastien: The IT Representatives Network’s New Coordinator
The Quebec college network received a highly anticipated bit of news at the start of the Fall 2019 semester. After months of speculation on potential candidates, the network finally learned who would replace Nicole Perreault as the community leader of …
Cellphone ban in Ontario classrooms started already
A ban on the use of cellphones in Ontario classrooms comes into effect on November 4th. The ban, first announced by the government earlier this year, had been delayed to give school boards time to implement the restriction. Under the …
Using learning analytics to predict mastery: a flawed concept?
The study proposes a method to predict the point at which a student will reach skill mastery within an adaptive learning system, based on ‘current approaches to estimating student knowledge’.
https://www.tonybates.ca/2019/11/01/using-learning-analytics-to-predict-mastery-a-flawed-concept/…
4 Phases Of Inquiry-Based Learning: A Guide For Teachers
According to Indiana University Bloomington, Inquiry-based learning is an “instructional model that centers learning on a solving a particular problem or answering a central question. There are several different inquiry-based learning models, but most have several general elements in common.…
Benefits of Using Video in Education
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 …
Digital 2019 Canada
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 …