DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Students will employ AI to write assignments. Teachers will use AI to assess them. Nobody learns, nobody gains. If ever there were a time to rethink assessment, it’s now.
https://acreelman.blogspot.com/2022/05/ai-generated-essays-time-to-rethink.html…
What’s the best service or tool for creating and hosting an online class by oneself?
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Do you want to remove files from OneDrive but not from the computer? Or vice-versa? Use these steps to manage your OneDrive files.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/remove-local-copies-onedrive-files-without-deleting/…
In this episode of “Jasons pédagogie numérique”, recorded in English, Florence Sedaminou Muratet meets with Liz Charles, from Dawson College. Florence and Liz discuss the creation of SALTISE and what brought Liz to be interested in active learning.
Web3 is the third iteration of what we know as the internet. Simply put, it is the next phase of what we can already do on the internet. As educators, we have to help to prepare our students for how …
I’m not about to self-diagnosis ADHD, but I could still use all the help I can get to get through my to-do list.
https://lifehacker.com/you-don-t-need-adhd-to-use-these-adhd-productivity-hack-1848964773…
College students and educators aren’t aligned with each other about how higher ed should proceed once COVID-19 is no longer a public health emergency, according to new survey data covering 10 countries around the world.
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Windows, Mac OS and Linux support drag and drop operations to move or copy files from one location to another. The open source cross-platform application DropPoint aims to make drag & drop operations easier on all three desktop operating systems.…
There is a wide variety of web tools and mobile apps you can use to annotate web content and PDFs. Below is a collection of some of the best annotation tools and apps I recommend for teachers and students. I …
Problems with cellphones have followed the same pattern, adding to the entertainment factor as well as universal expectations of constant connectivity and communication. With the evolution of cellphones over the past 30 years, from novelty to necessity to entitlement to …
A pilot program, designed in part by educators at Sanford Underground Research Facility, is introducing computational thinking into elementary school curricula.
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/think-like-a-computer
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New classroom technology integration is a great way to make learning relevant. Here are start-up and equipment tips for teaching with technology through video podcasting.
https://techlog360.com/teaching-with-technology-by-video-podcasting…
It is possible to program a macro in Word that would search and highlight a list of words or expressions from a reference file. Then, all that would be left for me to do is to come up with a …
Using Google Docs’ new Auto-Generated Summaries feature, you can summarize long documents and highlight important information. Here’s how it works!
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-google-docs-auto-generated-summaries-work/…