DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Microsoft is making a computing device intended for the users wanting low-powered and cheap computers. A counterpart to Chromebook, the device currently carries a rumoured moniker CloudBook would run Windows 10 Cloud which according to a patent would be …
Get 1200 free online courses from the world’s leading universities — Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Oxford and more. You can download these audio & video courses (often from iTunes, YouTube, or university web sites) straight to your computer …
The Raspberry Pi computer can be used in all kinds of settings and for a variety of purposes. It obviously has a place in education for helping students with learning programming and maker skills in the classroom and the …
How is digital technology changing education? An easier question to answer perhaps is: How is digital technology not changing education. Read more to learn about how digital technology is revolutionizing the face of schools and education on a global …
This is a piece of marketing published by D2L some time in the last year. It’s a nice overview of how to plan for the use of data analytics and how to work with the results. “This isn’t about …
Researchers from the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Thales, the University of Bordeaux in Paris-Sud, and Evry have developed an artificial synapse called a memristor directly on a chip. It paves the way for intelligent systems that …
Ultimately, we want to prepare young people to change the world—when they are equipped and ready to do just that.
The Windows 10 Creators Update is making it easier to understand what information the operating system wants.
While it’s important to protect your privacy, it doesn’t mean that you should sign up to a VPN service and tunnel all your internet traffic through VPN servers. Learn how to create your own VPN server in 15 minutes.…
Will teachers be replaced by robots? Not likely, but there will be areas where the machine learning boom will positively impact education. Better yet, machine learning will free teachers up to do better what they do best – that …
Andy Alferovs, managing director of Kortext, the UK’s leading digital textbook solutions provider, discusses how innovations in EdTech and analytics are leading to a step-change in higher education which could lead to a more flexible, personalised teaching and learning …
There is a new tool to help people read research literature, instead of getting stuck behind paywalls. It’s an extension for Chrome and Firefox that links you to free full-text as you browse research articles. Hit a paywall? No …
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