Can technology be used to improve the educational experience? Or is it the harbinger of a depressing future in which anonymous institutions educate thousands of students who never meet their professors?
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DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Can technology be used to improve the educational experience? Or is it the harbinger of a depressing future in which anonymous institutions educate thousands of students who never meet their professors?
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Quite simply, they’re useful and free ways to bring high-level thinking and through-provoking ideas into the classroom and your home. What could be better than that?
http://edudemic.com/2013/03/why-ted-talks-have-become-so-popular/…
Universities are ahead of the curve in adopting open source. We should now lead the public sector in exploring its full potential.
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The future of education technology is not a new app, tool, or teaching method.
http://edudemic.com/2013/03/2-predictions-for-the-future-of-education-technology/…
Here are six free resources you can use to get started capturing student’s thoughts and ideas for free using whatever device they have whether it’s a phone, tablet, or laptop.
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.ca/2013/03/6-free-ways-to-capture-student.html
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Smore will let you quickly, easily, and efficiently create flyers using an incredibly simple drag and drop and WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor.
http://instructionaltechtalk.com/create-amazing-flyers-using-smore/
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Apowersoft Online Audio Recorder allows you to record audio online, free of charge, on Windows OS or Mac PC.
http://www.apowersoft.com/free-audio-recorder-online
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A Canadian educator reveals why she fell in — and out — of love with the flipped classroom model of instruction.
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2013/03/why-i-flip-flopped-flipped-classroom
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Recover deleted files, folders, even complete partitions, without spending a penny.
It is highly important that you teach your students the ethical use of images they find online. Here are some of the websites you can use to look for free and licensed images.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/03/tools-and-resources-to-find-licensed.html
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Digital learning to higher education will become what the forward pass was to football: It will revolutionize education.
Ask3 is a tool that teachers can use to create short instructional videos that are shared directly to their students’ iPads. Students can use Ask3 to ask questions about the video, mark the video with drawing tools, and create their …
A short guide to using backchannels for increasing participation in classroom discussions and for informally assessing your students’ knowledge.