Amazon Inspire, a site that lets teachers and schools upload and access unlimited educational and classroom resources, is now available to all educators following a year of tinkering.
DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Amazon Inspire, a site that lets teachers and schools upload and access unlimited educational and classroom resources, is now available to all educators following a year of tinkering.
New research by scientists at Michigan State University suggests that laptops do not enhance classroom learning, and in fact students would be better off leaving their laptops in the dorm during class.
Rhode Island teacher Tracy Enos shares her system for customizing instruction to meet the needs of every student. She calls it a playlist, an individualized digital assignment chart that students work through at their own pace.
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/student-playlists-differentiation/…
Last week Martin Dougiamas, the creator of Moodle, the world’s leading open source learning management system, joined our Future Trends Forum to discuss the future of that technology. Take a look at the video on the link below.
https://bryanalexander.org/2017/07/20/moodle-and-the-next-lms-reflections-and-more-questions/…
Is Your Classroom Static or Dynamic? Meaning, does your classroom offer one-and-done types of learning activities, or does the learning grow, inspire, and evolve throughout the year and beyond? Learning doesn’t have to end when the bell rings.
Take …
Microsoft has revealed that it is preparing to equip the second version of its HoloLens VR headset with its own AI processing capabilities to enable more features and services.
My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the …
College professors dole out an incredible amount of required reading to their students.
But what if they could only choose one book?
http://uk.businessinsider.com/books-harvard-yale-princeton-professors-2017-3…
When used properly, education hashtags can help you take part in important conversations and make valuable connections whether you’re a teacher, principal or superintendent.
http://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/07/education-hashtags-teachers-edleaders/…
Mobile phones have fast become the most pervasive technology in our daily lives. The first experimental mobile call was made in 1973. Just four decades later, over three quarters of UK adults own a smartphone and some 32 billion …
A new e-book by Stephen Downes: a collection of blog posts, published articles, transcripts from talks, some interviews, diagrams and images, and photos. Why personal learning? Each age sets its own priorities, and personal learning I think captures what …
Anchor is a free audio publishing service that I started using last winter. I was drawn to Anchor by its ease of use. Recording on Anchor is simple of matter of just holding down the record button on your …
How does the science of learning inform the day-to-day instructional choices of teachers? edX explores the science behind learning and how it helps improve classroom outcomes.
http://mitili.mit.edu/news/science-learning-edx-course-offers-teachable-moments…