DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
As in many other fields, AI in education is focused on performing cognitive functions such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, and problem-solving with application to vast the challenges and opportunities of continuously educating the 7.7 billion people on the planet.
https://www.holoniq.com/notes/ai-potential-adoption-and-barriers-in-global-education/…
Good resources to help you creating interactive video-based lessons.
https://practicaledtech.com/2019/04/07/creating-interactive-videos-video-based-lessons/…
In 2018, Chinese startups received over 50% of all the capital invested by venture capitalists in EdTechs worldwide. Chinese EdTech companies received more money than the total amount invested in EdTech firms from all other countries combined.
When there are debates about the world’s top performing education systems, the names that usually get mentioned are the Asian powerhouses such as Singapore and South Korea or the Nordic know-alls, such as Finland or Norway. But with much less …
Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1…
Microsoft just announced that it is beefing up Outlook with new AI-driven features. In the next few weeks (in North America in English), it will roll out a trio of features in Outlook on the web to expedite meeting prep, …
Researchers from the University of Michigan found parents talked more about the technology than content when using electronic books. With print, the frequency and quality of interactions were better, said lead author Dr Tiffany Munzer.
Two of Canada’s notable pioneers in AI have been named co-winners of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their work in deep neural networks. Geoffrey Hinton, a professor at the University of Toronto (UofT), has been named a recipient …
From 100 per cent renewable power and scientifically-driven longevity to neurotechnology and automated deliberation, these are the breakthroughs that will shape the future of humanity.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hay-festival-2019-technology-science-breakthrough…
This is a list of 149 products and services that have been killed by Google over the years. It stands as an object lesson in why you should not depend on commercial vendors and platforms for critical services.
This notebook comes equipped with a Pilot FriXion pen that wipes off clean, letting you reuse its 36 pages again and again. The best part? You can easily transfer your notes to Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote, Box, OneNote, Slack, iCloud, …
Tracking laptops is easy. Don’t wait until it’s stolen to use these simple tools.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-track-a-laptop/
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This Methodological Guide is meant to provide assistance on conducting evaluations of public initiatives focused on the provision of open digital textbooks. Such textbooks are in a digital format and made available publicly online.