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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This is my opening post for the Connectivm & collective knowledge that will start next Monday. We are about 1600 students from all over the world, followers of George Siemens and Stephen Downes. We will use many different technology tools and I am very courios to learn how we will face some theoretical and...
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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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I am just bit late for celebrations, but this year as in 2001, on July I was on my holidays summer. In 2001 I was on holidays in Salento (in the South of Italy, near Otranto, a really lovely place); we are listening at the radio the chronicle of what is happening in Genoa,...
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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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I don’t know is as italian group we were effective in communicating the Global Voices Summit, with interviews, posts, articles, comments, liveblogging and so on,but we have some kind of reactions from the media and the italian blogosphere, here you can find all the links for web reactions, here you can find photos and...
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