Thanks Seymour Papert for changing the world
It’ s been a few hours since we got news of the death of Seymour Papert, 88 years old. He seemed immortal to me, this ingenious and funny old man who always embodied , in my story, everything I think...
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 nerd instincts, getting the app...
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 I wasn’t supposed to be...
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, my mate in many adventures...
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 culture. We need to take...
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 one point I had one...
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 to the whole world. A soon which...
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 attention to what could make...