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"We need our smartphones, notifications screens and web browsers to be exoskeletons for our minds and interpersonal relationships that put our values, not our impulses, first. People's time is valuable. And we should protect it with the same rigor as privacy and other digital rights. "

"By Harry Keller Editor, Science Education Despite plenty of nay-sayers, the textbook is dead. It just doesn't know it yet and continues on walking about as though alive. Textbooks have evolved considerably over the last fifty years and even somewhat in the previous fifty years. I even have one, A Text-Book of Physics, on my bookshelf beside me that was printed in 1891. It has some line drawings and no color. Its size is about 5"x8". Today, textbooks have lots of colorful images, plenty of side bars, and lots of engaging questions sprinkled about on their heavy-weight glossy paper stock. They also have tons of advice to teachers on how to use them effectively. They've gone about as far as they can go with paper as the medium. (...) You can learn faster and learn more than you think you can. Textbooks do not tap into our brains to realize that learning potential. New software that uses true active learning will. By so doing, it will eliminate textbooks of all forms, both printed and online, both passive and so-called interactive. Today, the textbook is a zombie. It's just waiting for that wooden stake or silver bullet to put it to a well-deserved rest."

Interessante la coincidenza con http://blog-micromega.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2013/07/22/boscaino-guastavigna-libri-di-testo-digitali-un-ragionevole-stop/ , già bookmarkato qui da Francesco Vallotto.

Analisi decisamente più interessante rispetto alle precedenti (citate) perchè vola decisamente più alta evitando di impantanarsi sulla falsa questione del formato dei contenuti per ragionare piuttosto di metodo. Ho condiviso filosofia e conclusioni

"Le revisioni dei post WordPress - #ltis13 April 18, 2013 by Claude Almansi | 2 Comments Nel mio commento #34 al post Due o tre cose sui blog #ltis13, ho provato a spiegare come le revisioni salvate - deliberatamente e dal software - dei post WordPress consentono spesso di recuperare un post apparentemente scomparso, ad es. per un problema di connettività. Lo rifaccio qui, però aggiungendo delle catture di schermo per maggior chiarezza: WordPress fa anche regolarmente salvataggi automatici, e l'ultimo si ritrova con le versioni salvate volontariamente sotto "Revisions", in fondo alla pagina del post: Elenco delle revisioni, con l'ultima, fatta dal software, seguita da [Autosaved] (la revisione con "[Autosave]" è quella che il software ha salvato per ultimo)"