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E' da un pò di giorni che osservo quanto è successo in Giappone ed a Fukushima. Tante sono le domande che mi pongo ed una in particolare che mi preoccupa più delle altre. Un terremoto apocalittico ha messo in ginocchio una nazione intera ed ha scatenato una reazione nucleare incontrollabile in una delle sue centrali elettriche. Non sto qui a dirvi o farvi la cronaca di quello che è successo, del perchè, di chi è la colpa e qual'è la soluzione. Col senno di poi, tutti possiamo essere scienziati, fisici, governatori ed ambientalisti eccellenti.

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Ed Dale shows how to use online social networking with great easy that would make just about anyone interested in getting into it.

out that K-12 education accounts for 0.2 percent of the research and development expenditures in the U.S., a fraction of what is spent in the pharmaceutical industry, which is also highly regulated. A low-cost, rigorous, and rapid way to conduct randomized trials in schools would help education innovate at a rate similar to that of the general technology industry, where products are put in front of users early and often and companies are in a constant state of change, the paper argues. Though that's what could make the public nature of the results a hard selling point to entrepreneurs.

This is nice, in a slightly creepy, and yet delightfully geeky kind of way: a fellow named Ed Morita decided to tattoo a WordPress logo on his forearm. It's not just a plain, boring logo type of tattoo, there's all sorts of things happening here: skin is peeled off, wires and circuits are shown, and there's a nice big "W" as the centerpiece.

A look at technology in the classroom from the student's point of view.  Gives interesting insights for those of us on a tech committee at our schools.  

referred from http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mfourman/research/topics/topical-perspective.xhtml

Shambles Newsletter May 2011 .. now online and it lives at http://www.shambles.net/newsletter/May2011 or use the short url http://bit.ly/kCxOmP It only comes out three time a year ... designed specifically for k-12 educators The Content in this issue includes - launch of ShamblesPad (built on EtherPad) - Facebook instant OpenSIM VW - IB in LinkedIn - CPD courses and conferences - iPad School Timetable App written by a student - SAGE: Speakers, Authors, Guests, Experts - PLANA Australia New Zealand CPD Portal - #21CLHK #learn21cn #TechEx2011 #barcampcm4 #rscon3 - iDevices Apps #mlearning #Apps #edapp - The Relationship Manifesto - Digitise the Text Book Industry - The TED-Ed Brain Trust - Generation Y: Who, What, How - Flipped Classroom I'd appreciate your help to spread the word by forwarding this email to education colleagues or by Tweeting or through Social networks. It might be more convenient to use the url http://www.shambles.net/newsletter/ which has a sign-up form and also contains archives back to 2002. The next edition out in November (enjoy the summer hols) Many thanks Chris Chris Smith (shamblesguru) http://shambles.net (over 10,000 visitors a day) Bio http://shambles.net/shamblesguruBIO Follow me on Twitter @shamblesguru I hope you are already signed up for the free Shambles newsletter http://shambles.net/newsletter … only 3 a year

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