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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...