DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Our checklist is the result of a meta-analysis, based on several popular app checklists, as well as our own contributions, completed through research and extensive conversations with educators.
http://blogs.sas.com/content/sascp/2015/03/05/the-great-app-checklist/…
Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as …
The quizmaker tools that we will go through for creating online quizzes and polls are all free and are very easy to use. There’s no need for any sort of training. Most of these quizmaker tools are point and …
A tool that helps you find the right software for your computer, mobile phone or tablet. It gives you alternatives to software you already know and want to replace.
Instead of being seen as a possible distraction, the use of social media in the classroom is now a vehicle for driving engagement and learning. What’s more, by implementing the use of social media as an acceptable form of …
There is not much conclusive research on how video games affect children for good or ill. But there are stories of many game makers and scholars who have found clear signs of such activity promoting learning.
It is a rare privilege to observe the rise of a new language,” Thomas Dimson, a software engineer on Instagram’s data team, said in a company blog post on Friday. “Emoji are becoming a valid and near-universal method of …
It is inevitable search engines such as Google will be allowed in public examinations, including GCSEs and A-Levels, the head of an exam board says.
Google Classroom can be utilized by educators who have already created a Google Apps for Education account for free. In essence, Google Classroom is designed to give online facilitators, content creators and educators the ability to go paperless and …
SoundCloud for Podcasting could be a great service to try if you have wanted to try podcasting with your students, but have been overwhelmed or frustrated by the process of distributing the recordings your students have made. The free …
If you try to print a long Google doc, chances are the printed version will probably look slightly different from the actual one. This is usually the case because the default settings in Google Docs are not set to …
We want to address some of the main concerns about tablet use in the classroom, as well as offer some tips that may serve useful if iPads do come to play a larger role in your classroom.
I would like to share what I think is the biggest misunderstanding we need to correct in order to have a successful learning design strategy. Single Biggest Myth: Mobile Learning is ONLY About Mobile Devices.
http://rjacquez.com/the-single-biggest-myth-about-mobile-learning-mlearning/…