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"Il tablet è certamente il gadget tecnologico del momento nell'editoria digitale come nelle scuole. L'avvento, sempre imminente ma continuamente procrastinato, dei libri di testo digitali nonché le diverse sperimentazioni (che hanno rapidamente soppiantato quelle con la LIM, Lavagna Interattiva Multimediale) nella didattica curricolare, hanno trasformato il tablet nella bacchetta magica con cui combattere il disinteresse per contenuti stantii, colmare il digital divide tra docente e studente, proiettare la scuola nel futuro e mille altre meraviglie pedagogiche. Poco o nulla si dice però del suo utilizzo per i Bisogni Educativi Speciali (per tacere dei Bisogni Comunicativi Complessi), soprattutto al di fuori dei circuiti "specializzati".. Eppure siamo di fronte finalmente a uno strumento inclusivo, piacevole, bello, efficiente in grado rendere simili invece che differenziare! E' "normale" vedere qualcuno che usa un tablet in giro per la città: nessuno si fermerebbe per chiedergli perché lo usa! Però - anche se ci piace (ed è anche giusto) vederlo sotto questa luce - il percorso che porta all'utilizzo del tablet deve essere strutturato, personalizzato e condiviso con la consapevolezza che: 1) come ausilio potrebbe anche non andare bene per quel bambino/ragazzo/adulto; 2) soprattutto in età evolutiva, non tutti gli ambienti di vita potrebbero essere in grado di farlo utilizzare in maniera adeguata e significativa."

"April 14, 2013 by Claude Almansi Questo post risponde alla richiesta di Andreas Formiconi in Apriamo il blog #ltis13: Cose da fare… : (…) Iniziate a trasferire il diario che avete scritto sino ad ora nel blog, strutturandolo come preferite in uno a più post. | 5 aprile 2013 | | 7 aprile, mattina | | 7 aprile sera | | 11 aprile pomeriggio (Non solo luci)| | 12 aprile 2013 (Coursera/Amara - Non solo luci ) | | 13 aprile 2013 ( Blog - Digital Divide Network - RSS ) |"

"Author: Andy Carvin , EDC Center for Media & Community | December 7th, 2004 You may have noticed recently that lots of websites now contain little graphical buttons with the word XML on them. For example: XML button When you click on the button, all you see is a bunch of jumbled text and computer code. What's this all about? It's an RSS feed, and they're changing the way people access the Internet. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a technical format that allows online publishers to share and distribute their content to other websites or individual Internet users. It's commonly used for distributing headlines on news websites. Bloggers use it to distribute summaries of their blog entries as well. RSS is written in the Internet coding language known as XML, which is why you see RSS buttons labeled that way. If a website publishes an RSS page, commonly known as an RSS "feed," this feed will contain summaries of all the recent articles posted on that site. For example, Yahoo News publishes news related to world headlines, national news, sports, etc. These you can all read by going to the Yahoo website. But they also publish RSS feeds for each of these subjects. Each RSS feed contains a summary of the most recent news stories posted. Similarly, the Digital Divide Network publishes RSS feeds for our news headlines, events listings and other content on our website. I even have my own RSS feed for articles that I publish on my personal blog, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth. But why do RSS feeds look like a jumbled mess when I click on them with most Web browsers? It's because RSS feeds are meant to be read by machines rather than people. Software and websites can understand the data contained in RSS feeds and make it available to people on personalized websites, through software known as news aggregators, even through email. So when you aggregate RSS feeds, you're having a computer collect content from many different websites and organize them in a convenient pla

Linkato in http://iamarf.org/2013/04/20/racconti-ltis13/ , commento 42. RSS come empowerment.

"Videogames are one of the fastest trending topics in media, education, and technology. Research across fields as disparate as science, literacy, history, visual processing, curriculum, and computer science suggests that videogames aren't just fun - they can actually be good for your mind as well. In this course, we will discuss current research on the kinds of thinking and learning that goes into videogames and gaming culture. We'll investigate the intellectual side of digital gameplay, covering topics that range from perception and attention in Left 4 Dead 2 to the development of historical understanding in Civilization to collaborative learning in massively multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft. Throughout the course, we examine the inherent tensions between contemporary youth culture and traditional education and new developments in games for learning that promise to help bridge that growing divide."

"Babelfish 101 (also appliable to the Google translator) Babelfish is not a little polyglot genius lurking in your computer or in cyberspace Babelfish is A computer program made of lists of words and phrases in different languages complex, but not all-covering, rules applied to these lists in order to produce translations Babelfish will not give you a publishable or even editable version of your text in another language analyse and render correctly complex sentence structures always choose the meaning you had it mind if two or more words have the same spelling confuse two words due to approximate memory Babelfish will produce apparent gibberish give you a rough idea of what someone else's original text is about Therefore, when dealing with Babelfish, you must use commonsense Don't use Babelfish to produce a translation into another language, especially if you don't know that language If you know others will use Babelfish to read you, use simple sentence structure and avoid terms that can have several meanings If you read something absurd or outrageous in a Babelfish translation, don't immediately attribute the absurdity or outrage to the author. Try to guess from the context what the author might have meant Compare what the author might have meant with what you know of Babelfish's limitations, to see if these limitations are the likely cause of the apparent absurdity or outrage be wary of commonsense The author may indeed have expressed something that would baffle you even if you both used the same language: because your cultural references are different, because s/he is using irony because (make your own list) ask when in doubt ;-)" Avevo scritto questo post su un blog del Digital Divide Network (DDN) che non c'è più. Questa è la copia salvata sull'Internet Archive il 13 agosto 2007

A volte le differenze tra chi abitualmente legge solo libri e chi invece pratica il web sono curiose e impensabili.

Ciao Sandra - hai fatto il segnalibro di una pagina di modifica di post, alla quale solo tu puoi accedere. Quale post intendevi "segnalibrare"? Ne rifaresti il segnalibro, per favore?

"Can You Really Teach a MOOC in a Refugee Camp? - Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education August 1, 2014 by Steve Kolowich Two men living in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya, would watch lecture videos and take online quizzes at a nearby United Nations compound. (InZone) One narrative that has driven widespread interest in free online courses known as MOOCs is that they can help educate the world. But critics like to emphasize that the courses mostly draw students who already hold traditional degrees. So when Coursera, the largest provider of MOOCs, published a blog post about how a professor had used one of its online courses to teach refugees near the Kenya-Somalia border, it sounded to some like a satire of Silicon Valley's naïve techno-optimism: Hundreds of thousands of devastated Africans stranded in a war zone? MOOCs to the rescue! Details of the experiment paint a more nuanced picture, one that highlights the challenges MOOC providers face in trying to change the lives of downtrodden people. Barbara Moser-Mercer, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Geneva, ran the refugee experiment and wrote Coursera's optimistic blog post about it. But in an interview with The Chronicle, as well as a more formal article she wrote about the experiment for a European conference on MOOCs, the professor expanded on the logistical issues that come with trying to make sophisticated online courses work in deprived settings."