DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Jisc’s updated learning analytics code of practice provides ethical guidance on using AI to monitor student engagement, identify learners needing support, and enable early interventions while ensuring human oversight.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/the-ethical-application-of-ai-in-learning-analytics…
Many higher education institutions treat artificial intelligence (AI) in education as a single category. A four-layer framework helps institutional leaders distinguish AI adoption from AI readiness and identify gaps in AI policies and investments, including limited support for profession-specific AI …
Dawson College’s Faculty Learning Communities offer a sustainable, collaborative approach to faculty professional development, with promising results since their introduction in 2023.
https://eductive.ca/en/resource/transforming-the-institution-through-faculty-learning-communities/…
A new Dartmouth survey reveals an interesting contradiction: college students say they use AI primarily to support learning, but believe their peers are more likely to use it to cut corners.
https://phys.org/news/2026-10-survey-reveals-students-ai.html…
This study identifies distinct patterns in how programming students use AI-powered learning analytics to explore their own and peers’ progress. Findings highlight the need for personalized, adaptive AI feedback tailored to students’ engagement patterns and learning stages.
The Netflix Co-Founder on AI tutors, the future of teaching, and why he thinks school should feel more like a conversation.
https://edtechinsiders.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-reed-hastings…
TED and Google have launched a global initiative inviting educators to share innovative ideas about AI’s role in teaching and learning. Five selected educators will present their ideas at TED2027 in San Diego, followed by a Q&A with Khan Academy …
Generative AI has become so realistic that traditional clues are no longer reliable for identifying AI-generated images and text. Watermarks and digital authenticity tools can help verify content, but no single detection method is foolproof.
https://www.androidpolice.com/5-tools-to-detect-ai-generated-text-photos-and-videos…
Recent research in mechanistic interpretability suggests that LLMs can develop different levels of understanding, conceptual, factual, and principle-based, rather than simply imitate language patterns. Although these mechanisms differ from human cognition, they challenge the idea that AI lacks genuine understanding …
Discover a free, browser-based educational toolkit featuring interactive whiteboards, concept maps, graph makers, classroom templates, multimedia activities, and collaborative learning tools without complicated setup.
https://mguhlin.org/blog/2026-10-11-drawsplat-org-for-educators-more-than-an-interactive-whiteboard/…
AI is mental junk food: tasty and tempting, but ultimately unhealthy: a cognitive hot dog.
https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/our-minds-did-not-evolve-for-ai…
This recent research proposes rethinking assessment in the age of generative AI by focusing on whether assignments genuinely measure intended learning outcomes rather than relying solely on traditional exams or AI detection.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02602938.2026.2747110?af=R…
This study tests whether AI systems can design and complete supposedly AI-resistant assessments, finding that oral components, live participation, and staged assignments offer promising ways to verify authentic student learning.
The moving AI frontier in instructional design, and what it means for our roles & jobs.
https://drphilippahardman.substack.com/p/tests-show-ai-can-design-like-an…
A critical reassessment of Harvard's widely discussed AI tutoring study, comparing its findings with newer research showing that AI tutors can improve or undermine learning depending on how they are designed and used.
https://etcjournal.com/2026/10/17/the-harvard-ai-tutor-study-eleven-months-later/…