DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Do you have an account on Facebook or Google or Twitter or any other major platform where you share your personal data or any other crucial information — then activating two-factor authentication or 2FA on all these online accounts is …
In project-based and competency-based learning there is a focus on how one demonstrates learning. And although service learning has long been valued in education and the professional world, there has not traditionally been a great way to document it. One …
The term “artificial intelligence” (AI) is increasingly more familiar as we encounter it in our daily lives. (Have you asked Siri or Alexa a question lately?) As technology becomes a bigger part of teaching and learning, accelerated by the COVID-19 …
In a survey of more than 2,500 teachers in eight countries, which was carried out in October/November 2020, there was one thing everyone seemed to agree on – online learning is not as effective as classroom-based teaching.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/classroom-teaching-better-than-remote-learning-education/…
Hundreds of thousands of teachers have had to adapt their teaching for an online world. Moving away from the technology used, there are many general teaching strategies that can be adopted for a virtual environment.
https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2021/02/25/making-remote-teaching-easier/…
Miro is an excellent whiteboard platform to boost your collaborative team work. You can use it to host online meetings, run collective brainstorming sessions, and organize remote workshops. Miro’s intuitive canvas offers a wide variety of features to help you …
Reinforcement learning is the branch of artificial intelligence that has become renowned for mastering board and video games. Reinforcement learning models seek to maximize rewards. In the case of online ads, the RL model will try to find the ad …
COVID-19 has been extraordinarily challenging for universities and students, and the disruption will likely persist beyond the rollout of a vaccine. Here are five changes made to higher education that it would be valuable to continue with after COVID-19.
See how to use the following free tools to create short audio recordings: Vocaroo, Online Voice Recorder, and Twisted Wave.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2021/02/three-easy-ways-for-students-to-make.html…
In an hour or so, covers how to set up a live stream broadcast in YouTube using Open Broadcasting Systems software. This will allow you to broadcast your camera, applications, online meetings, and basically anything you want to a live …
The purpose of the study is to identify and compare the influence of formative and summative assessment approaches based on an intelligent computer system that provides automatic feedback; the assessment is carried out in paper format, but obtaining feedback requires …
Using some of the strategies I use online with teachers, drawing upon my 25 years in the classroom, plus the work from three key research papers, here are 15 recommendations and strategies worth trying.
https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2021/01/10/15-remote-teaching-approaches/…
Need to create a PDF of a webpage in a pinch? You need an online tool that can read and convert the website for you – a tool like PDFmyURL.
Here are summaries of five ways of improving online learning for all students, using data, evidence and research.
What does 2021 have in story for higher-ed IT? There’s a lot of potential for online learning and future jobs.
https://www.ecampusnews.com/2020/11/23/4-higher-ed-it-predictions-for-2021/…