DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Google have just launched a new way to get your class or friends to take a virtual field trip using Google+ and YouTube. It’s called ‘Connected Classrooms‘ and is simple to do and quite easy to get started.
http://edubloggery.com/google-connected-classrooms/
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Here you will find a wide variety of resources to help you quickly learn how to take advantage of all the features Prezi has to offer. Check out our list of learning materials below and pick the option that suits …
There are innumerable ways to stream audio and music online, but SoundCloud has some advantages over the competition. Check out some of the best and most useful SoundCloud features below in our beginner’s guide.
http://mashable.com/2013/11/10/soundcloud-beginners-guide/
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In an effort to keep your Twitter manners properly set up and to make sure you know which part of Twitter is useful for a particular type of question or conversation, check out this visual guide.
http://www.edudemic.com/must-guide-twitter-manners/
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As modern technology evolves and pushes out the old, it’s fascinating to look back at what’s been replaced in the past few years thanks to tech advancements. The infographic below highlights just how far we’ve come over the years and …
Google Drive is a great tool for collaborative editing and file sharing. Learn 12 unique ways that teachers can incorporate Google Drive into their classroom instructional practices.
http://fluency21.com/blog/2013/10/21/12-effective-ways-to-use-google-drive-in-education/
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Crowdsourcing is an important information literacy skill. The idea of crowdsourcing will allow students to utilize personal learning networks to gain a diversity of opinions, find outside experts and use the wisdom of a network or crowd to find more …
Want to take courses from Harvard and MIT in the comfort of your home? Take part in distance learning with these Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) from websites to explore your boundaries and increase your knowledge. Quality education from the …
A survey of teachers who instruct American middle and secondary school students finds that digital technologies have become central to their teaching and professionalization.
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teachers-and-technology.aspx
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An inner city primary is at the heart of a project to test how technology can be used to boost children’s learning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-24761270
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Opportunity to learn is an old educational concept. Ubiquitous opportunity for the use of technology may bring us quite a few steps closer to realizing it each and every day.
http://www.edudemic.com/real-time-technology-in-11-classrooms/…
The fundamental question of education technology was posed by one of its seminal figures, Seymour Papert: will children program computers or be programed by them? In a new book, The App Generation, Katie Davis and Howard Gardner revisit that question …
Mind Cipher is a collection of brain teasers, logic puzzles, and riddles submitted by members of the Mind Cipher community. All submissions placed into one of ten categories. The categories include mathematics, logic, lateral thinking, and physics. All submissions are …