[: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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Five days after more than 350 African migrants lost their lives when the boat they were travelling on bound for Europe sank off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, a commission in the Italian Senate voted in favor of repealing the crime of illegal immigration. The commission on the evening of 9 October 2013 recommended that theBossi-Fini Law, which defined the crime of illegal immigration and prohibited bystanders from coming to the aid of illegal migrants, be modified to decriminalize undocumented…
The movement of opinion to allow women to drive in Saudi Arabia may help to resolve a situation incomprehensible to most people. The day for the right for women to drive a car that was celebrated on October 26, 2013 gave international visibility to this issue. However, in the world there are many cases of unequal rights of women similarly absurd. The Washington Post article highlights seven cases: in India, the helmet is not “compulsory for women not to spoil…