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Questo studio sul Cooperative Learning analizza con grande attenzione l'interazione dei componenti del gruppo e propone suggerimenti molto pratici per migliorare le competenze sociali e facilitare così il successo.

grazie, molto interessante. è un documento protetto da copyright o si può diffondere liberamente (blog, sito etc.)? mi interesso molto anche di 'cooperative teaching' per così dire, che è secondo me il punto dolente, in realtà, della nostra scuola, ancor più dell'apprendimento cooperativo, e SEL Social Emotional Learning che mi piace molto come approccio didattico e sopratutto gestionale

Non so se si tratti di un documento "libero": l'ho trovato per caso, come spesso succede. D'accordo sul "punto dolente della nostra scuola". Un Consiglio di Classe collaborativo fa veramente tutta la differenza fra una classe e l'altra. Bene la cooperazione in rete, ma si deve tradurre in pratica in classe. Personalmente non uso il cooperative learning, perché nella sua procedura classica richiede tempi distesi - un lusso di cui la riforma Gelmini mi ha privata. Meglio le Webquest, che richiedono ricerche fattibili anche da casa. Questo "Bignami", tuttavia, contiene molte osservazioni interessanti sulle dinamiche di gruppo e su come stimolare e guidare le abilità sociali. Prezioso!

Apparentemente ci può essere qualche problemino nell'installazione di VoxOoFox in Oo 3.4. Qui la soluzione (in francese). Attenzione anche all'antivirus Avast, che non permette l'installazione del programma.

L'ho trovato nel blog cloud bianco di Monica Terenghi. Mi sembra per lo meno interessante...

"La vostra classe è solo un clic di distanza… Easyclass è una nuova tecnologia per gli istruttori e gli studenti che semplifica materiali, compiti, test, voti, discussioni e calendario. "

Attenzione: la homepage è stata confezionata con il traduttore automatico. Questo fatto non mi ispira grande fiducia.

"We now require captcha on many social features, such as following people, joining groups, etc. For a very nominal fee, you can upgrade yourself to "Social Membership," which would grant you full social features without capcha, plus a lot of other goodies. We expect to stop the vast majority of the spammers with this simple measure. We'd like to elaborate more about Social Membership and its pricing and our thoughts behind the decisions. As long-time Diigo users know, Diigo is a personal knowledge management tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community on the other hand. While it is perfectly fine to use Diigo solely as the former, we do believe that the value of the knowledge-sharing community could be substantial, as the number of active users increases, and as the spam is minimized. As a result, we have decided to set the social membership annual fee at $5/year on Oct 1, 2014, and will increase the price gradually thereafter according to a pre-determined formula, as the number of active social members increases. To reward existing users, an attractive promotion price of $2/year will be available until Oct. 1, 2014. For future years, you will continue to pay the low annual price you paid in the first year, as long as your credit card stay valid for automatic renewal. We have also taken this opportunity to re-adjust our pricing plan to better align users needs with our business model. Existing basic and premium users will be automatically upgraded to Standard in the new pricing plan."

Attenzione a quel "new pricing plan" https://www.diigo.com/premium che limita drasticamente il numero dei gruppi per le formule meno care, ma non è chiaro cosa succederà ai gruppi creati con formula gratuita.

Chris Hoofnagle, director of BCLT's privacy programs | 3/6/13 "...We need to be less infatuated with "the cloud," which to some extent is a marketing fad. Many of the putative benefits of the cloud are disclaimed in these services' terms of service. For instance, a 2009 survey of 31 contracts found that, "…In effect, a number of providers of consumer-oriented Cloud services appear to disclaim the specific fitness of their services for the purpose(s) for which many customers will have specifically signed up to use them." The same researchers found that providers' business models were related to the generosity of terms. This militates towards providers that charge some fee for service as opposed to "free" ones that monetize user data. We should charge our IT professionals with the duty of documenting problems with outsourced services. To more objectively understand the cloud phenomenon, we should track the real costs associated with outsourcing, including outages, the costs of managing the relationship with Google, and the technical problems that users experience. Outsourcing is not costless. We could learn that employees have simply been transferred from the operation of CalMail to the management of bMail. We should not assume that systems mean fewer people-they may appropriately require meaningful staffing to fulfill our needs. As the expiration date of system wide Google contract approaches in June 2015, these metrics will help us make an economical decision. Finally, there are technical approaches that, if effective, could blunt, but not completely eliminate, the privacy problems created by cloud services. Encryption tools, such as CipherCloud, exist to mask data from Google itself. This can help hide the content of messages, reduce data mining risks from Google, and cause the government to have to come to Berkeley officials to gain access to content. The emergence of these services indicates that there is a shared concern about s

Attenzione alla data: alcune cose potrebbero essere cambiate nel frattempo.

"...Takeaway tips: * Educate your kids about the creepy, unsuspected power of data mining * Ask your school if they are using GAFE or any other online service provider whose business model includes advertising * If you are currently using GAFE, remember to always log-out completely when you leave your computer"

Attenzione alla data: alcune cose potrebbero essere cambiate nel frattempo.

"by Jeff Gould, SafeGov.org Friday, January 31, 2014 When it introduced a new privacy policy designed to improve its ability to target users with ads based on data mining of their online activities, Google said the policy didn't apply to students using Google Apps for Education. But recent court filings by Google's lawyers in a California class action lawsuit against Gmail data mining tell a different story: Google now admits that it does data mine student emails for ad-targeting purposes outside of school, even when ad serving in school is turned off, and its controversial consumer privacy policy does apply to Google Apps for Education."

Attenzione alla data: alcune cose potrebbero essere cambiate nel frattempo.