DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
As technology has gotten smarter and a lot smaller, educators have raised concerns that gadgets — from blue tooth earpieces to Google Glass — could be used to cut corners during important tests.
http://mashable.com/2015/06/16/universities-banning-smart-watches/…
Here are 10 ways in which you can extend the uses of PDFs, in order not only to increase your productivity but also extend your knowledge of such a useful document format.
http://socialbarrel.com/10-easy-and-innovative-ways-to-use-pdf-files/98741/…
If we distil the Internet of Things down to its essential purpose, it is the use of technology to permit us as human beings to yield or surrender some aspects of our attention, the need for our attentiveness, to …
The app is aimed at giving students the ability to travel to places they otherwise might not had the opportunity to reach.
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Technology’s primary effect is to amplify human forces, so in education, technologies amplify whatever pedagogical capacity is already there.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/06/why-technology-alone-wont-fix-schools/394727/…
Nanodegrees aren’t much different than college; the end result of the education is pointing you toward a career. In the case of many Udacity students, it’s a second or third career.
If there is any overall pattern so far it is that students who are beginning students, more remedial students, they’re going to have problems.
http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/16/taking-stock-do-moocs-only-work-for-educated-people/…
Here are ten things you can do this summer to hit the ground running in the fall, brought to you by a teacher who has been in your shoes.
We’ll explore a few simple ways to create free closed captioning text for your online training courses. We’ll work off of the assumption that you want closed captioning to sync with your audio narration or an inserted video on …
To take some of the edge off, several popular cloud-based photo storage services have popped up to help you store your precious moments. Here’s a look at five popular choices:
http://time.com/3911952/photo-storage-amazon-apple-dropbox-flickr-google/…
There are plenty of resources out there that can speed the editing process up and make you more confident about the work you’re submitting. Use them all, and you’ll be a stronger writer faster than you can say, “How …
If you use Google Docs, here are 24 time-saving templates that’ll let you get on with using the documents, rather than struggling with putting them together in the first place.
The templates below have been split into four sections; …
Intellectual property is the topic of the latest Common Craft video. The video provides an overview of what intellectual property is and how it is protected by patents and copyright laws.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/06/intellectual-property-explained-by.html…