I was 11, maybe 12, at the time. It was Italy in the glittering 80’s. Maybe it was for a long and suffered adolescence about to come, but the worst decade ever in my life,[…]
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Games for a better world: a training course
Games. I wish I could count how much time we spend on them in our life. In my life, surely a lot – and I do not regret a single minute of that time. While I[…]
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VR : virtual reality in a cardboard box
VR [as in Virtual Reality] is the new big thing, they say. Honestly, the idea of a 3D computer-generated reality has been a key aspect of cyberpunk culture, back in the 80s, and Wikipedia says[…]
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Digital Youth Work: Dig-it Up!
Digital Youth Work: Dig-It up! is the booklet I wrote together with Joanna Wronska and Raphaela Blassnig in 2017. It tells what we discovered, studied and learnt during two editions of our training course aimed at[…]
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Digital YouthWork Sessions podcast n. 1 – it’s me!
I am very honored and grateful to have been interviewed in the first episode of Digital YouthWork Sessions podcast, hosted by my friend Juha Kiviniemi from Verke – I wrote about them here already! We spent 45[…]
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Christmas tech gifts for kids? 5 tips, tested for you
Gifts, gifts … 10 days to Christmas, are you ready? Have you already bought everything? Or have not you even thought about it yet? 🙂 At this point the children will have already written their[…]
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eSports – videogames at the Olympics? let’s talk about it
Will eSports go to the Olympics? Apparently the Olympic Committee is thinking about it, and mentioned it in a recent statement . As foreseeable, such news sparked a mountain of reactions from commentators of a[…]
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InternetFestival : videogame – based learning – #IF2017
InternetFestival is a very serious thing, probably the most serious in Italy about network-related topics and trends. Yet 😀 the organization contacted me and my partner-in-crime Carmine , involving us in the T-Tour section, a series[…]
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10 things that Rogue One got perfectly right
I really loved Rogue One! As my friends Carmine and Jan wrote in their posts (in English and Italian), it’s definitely deserving to be a full part of the franchise. I don’t want to spend more[…]
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Videogames are more relevant than ever
Video games are really more relevant than ever. I am reading a very interesting Engadget article with this title, during a break in an international conference I am attending in Bologna, about open badges. it’s a[…]
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Defining digital youth work European conference – #DDYW – in Oulu, Finland
I spent a few days for #DDYW in Oulu, Finland, in what looked like a paradise to me. Not for the amazing nature, for the peaceful silence, for the birch trees on the sea shores,[…]
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Technology “with a soul”: games and education
Technology with a soul? Whatever this might mean for you, It’s a trend that I noticed, and I see it growing – I realized it especially after my two latest jobs as a trainer, in two very[…]
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Thanks Seymour Papert for changing the world
It’ s been a few hours since we got the news of the death of Seymour Papert, 88 years old. He seemed immortal to me, this ingenious and funny old man who always embodied ,[…]
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PokemonGO and augmented or decreased education?
PokemonGO , the game based on despicable manga monsters from a few years ago, is definitely the talk of the town during this period. And rightly so: I saw unsuspected graduates falling prey to their most unabashed[…]
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School: is it really destroying creativity?
Today I had to go to school, but I felt really bad: my famous back pain, faithful companion of many adventures, lately is quite angry and in these two or three days in particular he decided[…]
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Get Storied: storytelling and education
Storytelling and education? [NB: This post is widely based on original story GET STORIED: Storytelling and education, published “just in time” in English on the blog To Say Nothing About The Cat, written by my friend Carmine Rodi Falanga,[…]
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Will you join us? -a memory of Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz wrote: There is no justice under these unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public[…]
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American Lectures – six memos for the next web
Last week I gave a lecture in a training course for workers in the local Public Healthcare Agency in Monza. What do the American lectures matter with this? While preparing the presentation which was a script to my rants 🙂 at[…]
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Storytelling is the next big thing? new social media coming.
Since December 2011 I’m exploring Cowbird, a (not so) small socialnetwork of storytelling, that is … tellers of stories. Since some time I’m also witnessing the birth of Medium, whose early-adopters are a closed group defined by the founders, with the commitment to open it up soon[…]
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let’s start: hello world!
Ciao, this is how we start! It’s more or less how it all started for me, indeed. I gladly welcome you all here: you will find hacker ethics and education, my own business and great[…]
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