DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
California State Science Fair draws nearly 1,000 brainy kids from all over the state. In addition to some of the smartest kids you’ll ever meet, there were motors whirring, gears spinning and test tubes bubbling.
http://www.wired.com/2015/06/ethan-pine-california-state-science-fair/…
I’ll focus on several aspects of online course creation, including planning, techniques for teaching, community building and assessments. My hope with this piece is to contribute to a conversation on how to teach more effectively in an online space …
In an attempt to stop students from dialling up test answers on their wrist, a number of Australian universities are taking steps to ban smartwatches from the exam room.
http://mashable.com/2015/06/16/universities-banning-smart-watches…
While all text to voice converters can be used by both struggling and non struggling readers, the tools listed below are reputed for being effective with kids with reading disorders. Natural Reader is not free but it does offer …
As educators, we also need to hone our own skills, develop new ideas, and reflect on our practice. Here are five ways to kickstart your summer learning.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/ideas-kickstart-your-summer-learning-beth-holland…
Despite tremendous access to technology, most teachers have not transformed their instruction. Experts will discuss how tech is actually used and the barriers to technology-enabled, student-centered teaching.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/06/11/why-ed-tech-is-not-transforming-how.htm…
What’s different about iPads is their mobility. Now, a child can stare at a screen every minute of the day. And many do exactly that, frequently aided and abetted by their parents.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/why-ipads-are-the-new-drugs-for-kids-20150610-ghgvug.html…
Here are some of the tools our content team leverages to make that process efficient. While some of this may be overkill for you or your team, there may be some value in seeing how content gets created from …
An excellent tool for formative assessment is Google Forms. Good formative assessment allows you to be quickly responsive to student needs. Google Forms gives you the data from students instantly after they press submit. Since all student answers are …
Belgian privacy commission launches lawsuit after warning over alleged privacy law breaches over tracking of users and non-users for ads.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/15/belgium-facebook-court-privacy-breaches-ads…
PowerPoint presentations provide the opportunity to combine many of those tools into one place. In one lesson, you can easily incorporate speech, text, images, videos, and audio. You want your presentations to be engaging for your students. PowerPoint provides …
Facebook knows the social network of more than a billion persons. If you are a Facebook user though, you have little tools to explore your own social network. We are going to see how, with a few scraping tools, …
Fantastic resource created by Andrea Motosi. I’ve only included the 5 categories that are the most relevant to our audience, though it has 31 categories total, including a few on distributed systems and Hadoop.