DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
You don’t need scholarships, prior degrees, or even a physical classroom to further your education. Here are some noteworthy courses you can sign up for in June 2019.
https://mentalfloss.com/article/584491/smartest-online-courses-you-can-sign-june-2019…
You might not realize just how many tasks can be carried out via your smartphone, but if you’ve got the right apps, you can do pretty much anything. That doesn’t just mean playing games, surfing the web, or posting photos—you …
Can education be fun? The gamification of education is taking schoolwork and turning it into entertainment. Therein, the teacher uses interactive boards like ViewBoard, and other tools to disguise lessons as games that students will be eager to engage in. …
The author starts with a pair of disarmingly simple queries: What can sociological and neurological research tell us about learning, and do our dominant pedagogies align with these insights?
You will get to learn how you can use Mac’s VoiceOver with the blind and those with low vision, the different things people who are deaf or hard of hearing can do with Siri, how to tap into Mac’s assistive …
Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person’s face, opening up the possibility of animating not just photos but also of paintings. It’s not perfect, but when it …
The very concept of a quantum computer can be daunting, let alone programming it, but Microsoft thinks it can offer a helping hand. It’s partnering with Alphabet’s X and Brilliant on an online curriculum for quantum computing. The course starts …
Genially is a web tool you can use to create animated and interactive content for your class. You can design presentations, infographics, portfolios, video presentations, posters, CVS, quizzes, games and many more. Creating visual stories is simple and easy and …
How Social Assessment can drive employee engagement and improve performance.
https://www.d2l.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Social-Assessment-ebook-web.pdf…
Discover how video can be used to solve problems in education. Seek answers to challenges the audience has faced in their own use of video. Identify time-saving strategies for video production.
At the age of 20, the Montreal linguistics student can already speak 19 different languages, most of which he taught himself through a combination of internet videos, music and conversation with friends.
Competency-based education has piqued the interest of many communities because of its promise to make learning a more personal experience for students. In a competency-based model, children move through school based on their ability to demonstrate proficiency in skills and …