Education

I was very happy that my application to theOpen Education promoted by the Mozilla Foundation, ccLearn and P2PU (Peer2Peer University) was accepted. The course content were organized in three areas: open license, open technology and open pedagogy. It was requested to propose a project idea to participate to the course: at the end of...
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A good news about using ICT at school, also with a low technical profile, for helping pupils with diseases Eight-year-old suffers from spinal muscular atrophy. Webcam link to classroom MILAN – Marco takes a spaceship to school, in the sense that his hands, eyes and words soar through virtual space to the classroom. Marco’s...
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Starting for our curiosity and passion about OLPC, we organized a first meeting in March, 2008 in a secondary school, ITI MAjorana of Grugliasco, Torino. Thanks to Mr. Mariano Turigliatto, secondary school teacher and politician in our regional government, we had the opportunity to have two OLPCs, arrived direct from US with the project...
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On December 3rd, 2008 I made a presentation for elearning 2.0 initiative at ITC/ILO. There were about 20 persons coming from different parts of the world (from Ivory Coast to Uruguay,from Malesia tu Uganda, Ghana, South Africa…). My presentation was about the trends of education and organization models. You can find my slideshow on...
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I knew about “improv wisdom” from “how to save the world”, the Dave Pollard’s blog. You can read here his review of this. As I started reading, I was afraid it was one of the typical “american” book… with the unique tesis, repeated many times for hundreds of pages. I appreciate very much this...
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Thanks to SPARC, Students for FreeCulture e PLoS today is the first Open Access Day, to rise awareness about this topic, or in other words, about the idea that knowledge must be free. On OpenaccessDay.org you can find information about celebration around the world. On Dschola Tv, an Italian school network web tv, we...
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Google is making us stupid (N. Carr, Atlantic Monthly). Videogames and television make us more clever, as we have alwayes thought the opposite. (S. Johnson – Everything is bad is good for you). Shayer believes that boys today are less inclined to develop the ‘differential play patterns’ that previously accounted for their advantage over...
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The paper written with Laura Gonella was published on 9/2009 number of Elearningpapers: this issue is about “Personal learning environments”. A presentation of the website “eeLearning Papers adds a new dimension to the exchange of information on e-learning in Europe and stimulates research. As such, the articles provide views regarding the current situation and...
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L’appuntamento annuale con la presentazione dell’annuario statistico regionale – Piemonte in cifre 2008 – ha richiamato oggi a Torino, circa 450 persone . La novità di quest’anno è rappresentata dalla presenza dei dati relativi all’Euroregione, che comprende Piemonte, Liguria, Valle d’Aosta, Rhone Alpes e Paca, un territorio che conta circa 17 milioni di abitanti...
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Leggendo quà e la’ ho trovato citata la pratica pedagogica della Gestione Mentale, e ho trovato questa pagina da cui riporto la parte iniziale che la definisce: E’ una teoria ed una pratica pedagogica, elaborata in Francia da Antoine de La Garanderie (Ampoigné, 1920). Questi, – egli stesso allievo con difficoltà di apprendimento-, dopo...
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