DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
If you’re going to learn anything, you need two kinds of prior knowledge: Knowledge about the subject at hand, like math, history, or programming and Knowledge about how learning actually works.
http://www.businessinsider.com/remember-everything-you-learn-2016-10…
MySimpleShow is a great tool for creating explanatory videos. Students have to create a script in order to produce a video through MySimpleShow. MySimpleShow just introduced a new option for creating and using scripts in the production of videos. …
I would love to tell you that technology integrates itself, but it doesn’t. There are no technology faeries that come into your classroom to plug all the wires into the right places, create interesting videos for lessons or keeps …
Innovation in education can take lots of forms, like incorporating new technology or teaching methods, going on field trips, rejecting social norms, or partnering with the local community. See what the future of education can, and probably should, look …
TED talks are invaluable resources for teachers professional development. Throughout the year we have been sharing with you some interesting talks from renowned speakers and educators and today we have had a look back at those talks and picked …
Technology can be a powerful tool to assist students with special needs or any sort of learning challenge. In particular the Chrome web browser allows users to install a wide variety of web extensions that provide tools that can …
Today’s student opinions reveal what they really think about online learning, digital resources and much more.
http://www.ecampusnews.com/campus-administration/student-opinions-education/…
Research reports and papers have been around a long time. They haven’t evolved much. Here are 10 ways to make them more relevant.
http://ditchthattextbook.com/2015/11/09/10-creative-alternatives-to-research-reports-and-papers/…
Majority of us uses most expensive applications – from operating systems to other tools – to do our everyday tasks in PC. But we always forget there are best free software replacements are available for this paid softwares.
http://techlog360.com/2016/10/best-open-source-softwares-replace-expensive-applications/…
Closed captions, or video subtitles, are an easy, free, and engaging way to help improve student reading abilities. In this blog post we will take a look at what the research says about the benefits of closed captioning for …
It may sound like something from a science-fiction film, but a Canadian inventor believes he has made a device that could eventually allow patients to test for infections and illnesses from home. The cube operates as a miniature DNA …
“I think the brain is like a program in the mind, which is like a computer, so it’s theoretically possible to copy the brain onto a computer and so provide a form of life after death” – Stephen Hawking
http://3tags.org/article/mind-transfer-to-a-computer-and-immortality-may-be-within-reach…