DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning (POGIL) is a classroom and laboratory technique that seeks to simultaneously teach content and key process skills such as the ability to think analytically and work effectively as part of a collaborative team.
http://pogil.org/uploads/media_items/pogil-instructor-s-guide-1.original.pdf…
Plagiarism is going social, according toTurnitin.com, which found that one-third of plagiarized material in student papers can be traced to social networking, content sharing, or question-and-answer websites.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/09/01/social-sites-are-latest-sources-for-plagiarized-material/…
There are numerous teachers out there who are willing to share their expertise and classroom experiments with teachers young and old. Here are some great blogs that offer insights into what classes of kids are doing around the world as …
Below you will find a chart that shows the difference between a 20th Century classroom and a 21st century classroom. As you go through the list I don’t think you will see the word technology once.
Knewton’s Flipped Classroom Infographic clearly shows how shifting in- and out-of-class emphases can make a huge difference.
http://www.haikulearning.com/blog/2011/09/flip-your-mind-by-flipping-your-classroom/…
A great list of useful iPhone apps to be used in the classroom. Some of these apps have companion apps for the iPad which also function very well.
http://usatodayeducation.com/ctelounge/index.php/2011/08/the-blog-must-have-apps-for-the-classroom/…
It’s inevitable that you’ll occasionally find yourself in situations when you don’t have an internet connection, like planes, trains and carpools. Gmail Offline is a Chrome Web Store app that’s intended for situations when you need to read, respond to, …
Matthew Marchant, a Math teacher at Dawson, observed many students struggling to follow explanations from beginning to end. In response to this, he created videos to present in his Calculus 2 course for Commerce. The story explains how he made …
Learn how to easily embed YouTube videos into your Microsoft Office documents. For readers who use Microsoft Office, the HP Teacher Experience Exchange has a short video tutorial on how to embed YouTube videos into Microsoft Office 2010 documents.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/08/how-to-embed-videos-into-microsoft.html…
Multitasking is the ideal mode of the 21st century, not just because of information overload but also because our digital age was structured without anything like a central node broadcasting one stream of information that we pay attention to at …
Here are two ways you can use your iPad with the SMART Board. Please note that only the iPad 2 model has full video mirroring, allowing you to project whatever is on the iPad screen. The original iPad only projects …
There are several online app-only methods for turning YouTube into animated GIFs, but we’ll focus today on a service that doesn’t require a signup or login to make it as easy as possible.
http://www.howtogeek.com/72084/convert-youtube-videos-to-animated-gifs-the-easy-way-no-photoshop/…