DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Teachers want more technology in their classrooms — and fast. A new study from DonorsChoose.com, a nonprofit organization that lets teachers request items for their classes so donors can fulfill their requests, found that teachers rank technology as the …
Below is a collection of some of the most popular quizzing tools we have covered so far. Be it a flipped, blended, virtual or even traditional classroom, the tools below will enable you to easily create interactive quizzes, questionnaires …
In the report we summarized research findings about the conditions and practices that support positive outcomes of technology use and digital learning experiences for underserved, under-resourced, and underprepared students.
Monica Martinez creates professional development for the EdTechTeam, a partner of Google For Education. She has tried and vetted many of the apps available to teachers on many different platforms and has compiled an in-depth list of resources that …
After losing on mobile, can microsoft win the next battle? Microsoft is proud of its work on AI, and eager to convey the sense that this time around, it’s poised to win.
Below are three Google Docs add-ons that you can use to grade students assignments and provide written feedback to them. The apps will absolutely facilitate your grading and save you some precious time to spend on other instructional tasks. …
Take these ten steps (five in this blog entry, five more in the sequel) to ensure you are successful in supporting blended learning opportunities by using Office 365.
http://www.mguhlin.org/2016/07/10-steps-to-blended-learning-classroom.html…
Do you know someone whose arguments consist of baldly specious reasoning, hopelessly confused categories, archipelagos of logical fallacies buttressed by seawalls of cognitive biases? Surely you do. Perhaps such a person would welcome some instruction on the properties of critical …
Teachers are not ends-in-themselves, they are always a means to an end – improvements in the learner. Given this premise, could it be possible to eventually replace teachers with AI technology? This may not happen soon but let’s, as …
He does amazing things with children and computers, and is said to have inspired Slumdog Millionaire. So why isn’t the educationist a household name?
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jun/07/sugata-mitra-professor-school-in-cloud…
With the advance of mobile technologies, QR Code technologies open up a vast terrain for educational uses. There are several ways teachers can leverage the educational potential of QR Codes in their instruction. The visual below sums up 10 …
The main point is that bitcoin and the underlying blockchain is not just financial, although it is all about transactions – the transaction can be financial, but also information, knowledge, subscriptions, etc.
http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/technology/bitcoin-and-blockchains-explained/…
Does your morning routine consist of checking emails, browsing Facebook, downing coffee, heading to the train while Googling one last idea, checking notifications, more coffee, and going through your work email? The myriad activities crammed into your morning, and …