DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Aaron Ansuini, a student at Concordia University in Montreal., was surprised to find out that the professor listed on his syllabus and featured in his video lectures passed away in 2019.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-02-09-is-it-still-teaching-when-the-professor-is-dead…
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…
With the technology now available, it’s clear that simply broadcasting pre-recorded lectures is no longer an option for forward-thinking universities.
Feedback is often a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. Nevertheless, feedback offered throughout the duration of the course (formative feedback), is a crucial element in the learning process. Together with the feedback given at the end of the course (summative feedback), …
The Windows desktop isn’t meant to be a folder for your files. Here are some of the better options to store your files.
Whiteboard.chat allows teachers to create whiteboards for their students. Teachers can then remotely monitor the whiteboards to see what their students are doing on those whiteboards. It’s great for doing things like asking students to solve a math problem and …
Two-stage assessment is an approach in which students first answer questions individually (Stage 1) and then discuss them in teams prior to resubmitting their answers (Stage 2). The student’s grade is determined by a combination of the scores at both …
For decades, artificial intelligence has been depicted as a sinister force in science fiction. Think of HAL-9000, the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey series. But while applications of AI and machine learning are indeed sophisticated and carry …
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Discover how data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence are shaping the future and the differences between each discipline.
https://www.futurelearn.com/info/blog/differences-data-analytics-machine-learning-ai…
In the present article, I suggest ways to move away from traditional written exams or essays, during which it is more difficult to be sure of the students’ honesty. There are many cases where it is not easy to find …
“The article gets into a few technical concepts like connection weights, overfitting and local minima, but it does so in a way that makes them clear. If you know nothing about deep learning but would like to know what …
Plagiarism is on many teachers’ minds, especially in the context of distance learning. While there is no silver bullet against academic dishonesty, I offer you different strategies so that you can be confident that your students did write the answers …
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 …
Pandemic forcing schools to ask: ‘How do we make sure we’re engaging students?’