DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
At its Surface Event, Microsoft announced the much-anticipated desktop PC, dubbed Surface Studio. It’s company’s first desktop PC that comes with the thinnest LCD monitor ever built.
https://fossbytes.com/surface-studio-microsoft-launches-its-ever-first-desktop-pc/…
Teachers and parents who read aloud to children have long known that good stories have the power to captivate the most restless of kids. Before books became the main means of conveying information, spoken word was the vehicle for …
The assumption here is that curriculum can be broken into little pieces, that skills are acquired sequentially and can be assessed with discrete, contrived tests and reductive rubrics. Tracking kids’ “progress” with digital profiles and predictive algorithms paints a …
Office 365 Education is a comprehensive platform of tools and apps that provide teachers, staff members, and students with access to communication tools, document editing, file sharing, storage, email, class websites, assignments, classroom materials, and much more. Everything is …
The internet went nuts earlier this year when someone on Twitter noticed Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg applies a piece of tape over his web cam — a low-key security trick to act as the last line of defense against …
Choosito is a neat search engine for students and teachers to use to find websites based on reading level. It also includes a number of filtering options that let teachers do things like eliminate search results from Wikipedia or …
We are awash today with visions for the university of tomorrow. The world of education will be all digital and individualized, allowing you to learn from your laptop from anywhere on-demand. There is just one problem with these visions: …
In the dark and satirical spirit of Ambrose Bierce, I offer the first draft of a Devil’s Dictionary for educational technology terms. May it entertain, and all be forgiven.
https://bryanalexander.org/2016/09/22/a-devils-dictionary-of-educational-technology…
Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is to join the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford as a professor.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-10-27-sir-tim-berners-lee-joins-oxfords-department-computer-science…
Experts are predicting the coming of something called the technological singularity. In simple terms this refers to two things. First that artificial intelligence that is smarter than humans will be created in the future. And second that this intelligence …
When we hear the phrase “unbundling” in education, it usually refers to one of two things. Either it’s about unbundling the university into component parts like separating courses from certification or it’s about unbundling content from textbooks or courses …
Even if something isn’t actively being written on your USB drive, your computer might be caching some data and running background processes. So, the users of all operating systems (even Windows users with quick removal setting enabled) are advised …
Pixar in A Box (or PIAB) is a collaboration between Khan Academy and Pixar Animation Studios that focuses on real-Pixar-world applications of concepts you might usually encounter in the classroom.
http://makezine.com/2016/02/09/pixar-khan-academy-release-free-online-course-aspiring-animators/…