DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Students who have the current technology (or will be snatching up the new) can access powerful smartphone tools for producing great school projects. Areas like PBL and STEM learning call for imaginative and innovative solutions to complex problems. These …
In the latest Global Shapers Survey of 25,000 young people from across the world, 77.84% of respondents reported having taken online courses in the past. So is online learning the future of education?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/is-online-learning-the-future-of-education/…
Today we are bringing to your radar two more presentation tools with huge educational potential. You can use them to design visually attractive presentations that include a wide range of multimedia content such as text, sound, videos, images, PDFs …
Researchers at Sony have been working on AI-generated music for years, and has previously used AI to create impressive jazz tracks. But this is the first time the Sony CSL Research Laboratory has released pop music composed by AI, …
It has open-sourced an algorithm that describes images with 94 percent accuracy.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/23/googles-ai-is-getting-really-good-at-captioning-photos/…
These sites, as well as a few others, will help upgrade what you do in class if you and your students utilize Google Apps frequently. Not all are technically products of Google, but they all improve work done on …
The wellspring of inventions, MIT, has shocked the world again. This time, with a camera that can read the pages of the closed book. The imaging system kept above a book uses terahertz radiation to identify different pages and …
Online learning is becoming more accepted and “normal” in today’s digital world, as opposed to when it was first introduced, which saw a lot of stigma attached to online degrees. We’ve listed just some of the main reasons why it …
There’s no word on when you’ll be able to buy it, or to what extent you’ll need to mortgage your home to afford one, but today SanDisk revealed a prototype of a one-terabyte SDXC card that will help ensure …
Companies launch Raspberry Pi-based device to enable consumers greater control over their data.
http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/09/16/nextcloud-box-a-private-cloud-and-iot-solution-for-home-users/…
This is your complete guide to all of the Google Certifications for Educators: Google Certified Educator, Level 1 & 2, Google Certified Trainer, Google Certified Administrator, and Google Certified Innovator. This guide will help answer all of your questions …
Below, we’ve compiled a list of IoT (Internet of Things) education examples, including the uses of the IoT in higher education, the future of the Internet in education, and examples of companies that are using the IoT to enter …
Machine learning used to take place behind the scenes: Amazon mined your clicks and purchases for recommendations, Google mined your searches for ad placement, and Facebook mined your social network to choose which posts to show you. Unfortunately, several …