DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Teachers often find themselves under a volley of technology: “Use this! Try that!”
Sometimes, figuring out a new tool is merely another stressor. But every so often, practical, simple, and timesaving tools come along. These platforms and apps make my …
In a new paper, Google researchers detail how their latest AI evolution, AlphaZero, developed “superhuman performance” in chess, taking just four hours to learn the rules before obliterating the world champion chess program, Stockfish.
A great selection of tools selected by Harvard students so you can collaborate more efficiently and stay organized.
Today, schools across the country look to educators to customize learning for their unique classrooms. Here is how educators are accomplishing this through unbundling and BYOD.
https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/11/20/textbooks-unbundling-byod/…
Academics, industry and government have joined together, setting the stage for Canada to become a research and development powerhouse in AI.
Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook have announced the release of a neural network platform that allows deep learning frameworks to interoperate. It’s designed to make machine learning more accessible by letting developers mix and match different models.
Andreessen Horowitz analyst Benedict Evans explains how AI, mixed-reality, cryptocurrencies, and autonomy will play out over the next 10 years.
Your brain on story is different than your brain when it is receiving any other form of information, including straight facts and data. The threads of stories that we read, hear, watch, and click on affect us intrinsically. And tempt …
Chamath Palihapitiya, former vice-president of user growth, expressed regret for his part in building tools that destroy ‘the social fabric of how society works’.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/11/facebook-former-executive-ripping-society-apart…
Apple Classroom was released in March 2016, but from things I read online, or hear when talking to other educators, I feel that it still gets mistakenly compared to Google Classroom. In this post, I wanted to take some time …
It would probably come as a surprise to most researchers, working with assumption that citation counts as the one true measure of research excellence, that there is no accepted theory of what it is we are doing when we reference …
One strategy for these colleges to avoid extinction is to diversify—to avoid a precarious reliance on residential students. And one way to do that is by adding online programs to the mix.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-11-21-how-online-can-save-small-private-colleges-from-going-under…
Artificial intelligence and adaptive technology are making learning today more effective, efficient, and personalized.