DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene.
https://link.wired.com/view/5cc9e28e2ddf9c1a7adf9043mtzb9.5gen/667ae323…
While Canada gets decent grades in numeracy, literacy and problem-solving, the country is not a superstar performer.
While many AI tools are empty hype, some are a fantastic return on investment. From grammar correction to note summarization, AI technology can make your day much easier—you just have to know which AI tools are worth the money.
AI enhances education through personalization and efficiency but cannot replace human creativity and ethical reasoning. By balancing innovation with human-centered values, we can empower educators to shape future leaders.
Britain’s first teacherless AI classroom may be an “outlier”, but it underlines the potential benefits and risks of a UK government drive to rollout artificial intelligence in education, experts say.
As digital exposure grows, educators are rethinking its impact and exploring digital detox in the classroom. This article examines the trend, its driving factors, and practical solutions for balanced technology use.
https://eductive.ca/en/resource/digital-detox-a-balanced-approach-to-technology-in-education…
AI writing detectors often misidentify human writing due to grammar, word choice, and style, causing issues for students. This article explores why it happens and how to address it.
https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-why-ai-checkers-might-flag-your-writing…
If education is accelerated using AI, will we lose some crucial aspects of learning that will prove to be problematic?
This report is “based on the findings of two surveys conducted in Spring and Fall” “. Respondents expect technology use in post-secondary education to continue to increase,” writes Nocole Johnson. The most common tech is “learning management systems (LMS) to …
You can use AI itself to spot cheating and plagiarism via AI. Here’s how.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-detect-ai-writing…
ProfBot is an AI-powered chatbot that helps university students become better learners by providing personalized feedback in real-time.
https://teachonline.ca/snapshots-of-teaching-with-ai/improving-student-exam-results-with-profbot…
Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn.
AI technology is everywhere, from phones to drive-through ordering systems. Given that companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple are putting AI into everything, it’s good to stay up to date on all the latest terminology.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/chatgpt-glossary-49-ai-terms-everyone-should-know…
This is a slide presentation reporting on results from a survey of 1,681 responses from faculty members of 52 participating institutions across 28 countries. Faculty see more advantages than disadvantages in the use of AI in higher education.
Every professor I know wasted countless hours of 2024 in the prevention or detection of AI-powered cheating. It is a miserable war of attrition that seems doomed to defeat. Perhaps the time has come, then, to declare a strategic withdrawal …