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Author: Eleonora

My name is Eleonora Pantò and I live in Turin: I started this blog in 2007 and it was a good suggestion from a friend to tell about the things I was doing. I mainly write about education and digital technologies. I started using the Internet at the end of the 1990s and I have always been fascinated by the possibility of communicating with people even far away: suddenly everything seemed attainable. Despite the various evolutions, the tools, the ugliness, I still believe that the web and the Internet are a great invention.
Hybrid Politics Media and Participation (book review)

Hybrid Politics Media and Participation (book review)

Iannelli’s research for media relations, political participation, and democracy favours a systemic approach that goes beyond the rhetoric of “technological revolution” and seeks to focus on media hybridization and continuity over forms of political participation and power imbalance, involving new and old technologies. The book is structured in three chapters: in the first, the main theoretical references to the relationship between power and political participation are referred to in the media sphere. In the following two chapters, the “hybrid media…

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MEGACoders

MEGACoders

[:en]We are in the fullest of the European Code Week 2017 and Italy has exceeded the 8,000 events and we at Dschola wanted to contribute with a mega event MEGACODERS! The idea of ​​Stefano Mercurio was to gather 300 children in one place to make a mega coder dojo. A madness, however, has just found allies in Fablab 4 kids and Toolbox, and a supporter in Google. In mid-September we launched an open call for schools and tutors, and the…

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Summer is the time for STEM

Summer is the time for STEM

Minecraft, Robotics, Digital Fabrication, Videogames, Scratch, Digital Storytelling, Graphic and Web Design: summer camps provide an opportunity to express creativity, acquire skills and develop new digital awareness. Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics as well as Art and Reading: STEM or STEAM or STREAM are synonymous with technological innovation. Parents want for their children an education that guarantees them the best future, and given the fact that not all schools are well equipped for STEM, summer camps provide a great opportunity to…

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Social bots and their friends (book review)

Social bots and their friends (book review)

“Bots are the new apps” said the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, in 2016. His vision about the way humans will interact with machine was “conversation as a platform”, in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) allow computers to be able to interact with people, using the most natural human interface, language. Many users of the Internet are aware of bots: automated programs that work behind the scenes to come up with search suggestions, check the weather, filter emails, or clean up…

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The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age (book review)

The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age (book review)

The Class explores how school and learning, home and family, and peer groups impact and shape children’s use of digital media. The two authors followed a class of London teenagers for a year to find out more about how they are, or in some cases are not, connecting online. What is the meaning of learning? What are the objectives of the school and education? What is the relationship between these three aspects of knowledge management? What matters about digital technologies…

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Using Social media in the Classroom: a best practice guide (book review)

Using Social media in the Classroom: a best practice guide (book review)

This book is addressed to teachers that are looking for a well-structured guide to the introduction of social media tools in their day-by-day activity. It is not a manual as such because the author, Megan Poore, who is an Australian researcher with a background in training pre-service teachers, means to provide general principles on how to use these tools with clear objectives in mind, focused on the students’ skills and needs. Beginners are guided in their discovery of the virtues…

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How to learn with MOOCs and choose the right ones

How to learn with MOOCs and choose the right ones

There is a thread that starts from the sharing of educational reources (oer), passes through the open online courses (OpenCourseWare) and get up to the MOOC. MOOC means Massive Online Open Courses, often offered by large and prestigious universities for free. The first experiments of  open online course and with large numbers of students  go back into 2008 (# cck08) and were focused on the interaction amongs online students. One of the interesting aspects was the exploration of models for online education based on multiple…

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All digital: the Los Angeles schools’ debacle

All digital: the Los Angeles schools’ debacle

The investment to revive the results a bit ‘ poor students and Californians ‘ of $ 1 billion , which will add $ 373 million for infrastructure wifi .This is the  more extensive program in the United States for the digital equipment for students. The pilot phase of the project involved an investment of 50 million dollars for the purchase of 31 thousand iPad,  which 25,000 have already been distributed. The first problems occurred in the first week  students bypassed…

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Houseworks? a game for.. girls!

Houseworks? a game for.. girls!

In some companies, it may be that sometimes the meeting room require a clean operatio , especially if you invite customers and external partners and then you have to know that the there is a vacuum cleaner available, it is useful information. More than useful, strategic maybe, so much that this information is given only to a few, carefully selected because ” hose who organize more meetings , events.” In short, the ” hostess ” who manages projects, perhaps with…

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Creative confidence for space design

Creative confidence for space design

Starting from the comment of  Conor Galvin in the Creative Classroom  “Themes” of the Media & Learning Conference, I discovered the d.school di standford (of course I really as it has the same name of the Dschola Association). Continuing in the navigation I found several interesting things and in particular the video  of David Kelley on how to build creative confidence Kelley explained how to stop being creative and how you can return to be creative  using a method similar to that used…

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