Ricavo dal post una domanda un compito e un’esplorazione e da quello lì citato Etica hacker tre titoli di libri che inserisco nella lista dei prossimi acquisti:
L’Etica hacker di Pekka Himanen (Feltrinelli, 2003)
Un manifesto hacker di Wark McKenzie (Feltrinelli, 2005)
Felicità privata e felicità pubblica” di Albert Hirschman (il Mulino, 1983).…
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Loading...I subscribe to a parenting website and receive weekly email alerts about developmental milestones and topics relevant to my child’s age. Recently, I read a post: Your 3 3/4-year-old: Computer Ready?
Perhaps, it’s my profession, or better yet, maybe, it’s my experiences and the topics presented during #ETMOOC that had me scratching my head and pondering some of the statements.…
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Time has flown by once again and #etmooc is coming to an end. When I first started to read the posts and tweets about the course ending, I thought, “Wait, already!? No, not yet!” I couldn’t believe we had reached the last week, which meant it was time for closing thoughts and reflections.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...It’s true, despite the fact that Google is the most common search engine. Take a look at the infographic below that says most students don’t know how to perform a well-excuted Google search. This statistic is shocking, especially when 94% of students say they use Google and other search engines to conduct research.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A little exposure to openness can carry us a very, very long way, as I’m learning through my Open Education Week meanderings.
Initially inspired to engage in Open Education Week ruminations and activities through my current immersion in #etmooc—an online Educational Technology & Media massive open online course (MOOC) developed by Alec Couros and colleagues—I am now finding myself nearly overwhelmed by how the current open movement module of the course is inspiring me to see rhizomatically-extending roots and shoots of “open” nearly everywhere I look.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...“Expansive” is a word that comes to mind for anyone learning in a well-designed massive open online course (MOOC).
It’s a safe assumption that this type of learning fosters an expansive, collaborative community of learning; in #etmooc (the Educational Technology and Media MOOC that Alec Couros and others are currently offering through March 2013), for example, we have more than 1,600 colleagues from a variety of countries.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...With massive open online courses (MOOCs) at the center of hype, overhype, and plenty of justifiable criticism, a midterm review of one—the highly interactive Educational Technology and Media MOOC (#etmooc, organized by University of Regina professor of educational technology and media Alec Couros and others)—shows what a well-designed and well-facilitated MOOC can offer to learners with the digital literacy skills required to benefit from them.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Have you heard about the new Google ChromeBooks? 
They are new, affordable, lightweight, smaller laptops that are made by manufacturers like Samsung and Acer, and run a browser-based Operating system called “Chrome OS”. They are super simple, and are a “network” based laptop, in that most of their functionality exists on the internet. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...NASA hosts its first Google+ Hangout connecting with space station– from nasa.gov
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WASHINGTON — NASA will host its first Google+ Hangout live with the International Space Station from 11 a.m. to noon EST, Friday, Feb. 22. This event will connect NASA’s social media followers with astronauts on the ground and living and working aboard the laboratory orbiting 240 miles above Earth.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Fascinated by and immersed in Twitter backchannels and tweet chats, I’ve recently been assisting learners in the latest offering of our ALA Editions Social Media Basics course as they explore live chat sessions in a variety of social media platforms.…
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