I am fond of technology: with my students I enjoy using tools like Blendspace, Tacck, Padlet, Thinglink and many more.

In the last two years I got involved in the project "cl@sse 2.0": each of my students had a tablet and the classroom was equipped with a LIM (Lavagna Interattiva Multimediale, Interactive Multimedia Board).

The learning materials I produced are published on my blog https://latestabenfatta.wordpress.com/

#2 3d printing engineer

#3 urban agriculturalist

#4 smart house engineer

#2 Let’s concentrate not on technology but on what is important to be a human being

#3 Let’s make sure that we teach young people to be resilient and how to embrace change

#4 Let’s make sure that we put innovation at the heart of every curriculum

#5 Let’s make sure that us as educators remain positive and always deliver the best possible service to children and young people.

I totally agree with Ollie's analysis: technology must be a medium but the heart of education is the welfare of our students. In order to face the changes flexibility is very important: a quality that has to be taught firstly by the school.

The search engine I use is “Google” because, in my opinion, it’s the most powerful and the most complete. In fact it offers many integrated services (gmail, youtube, google+, blogger…). Moreover I think that searching the internet is the first most important digital skill. For this reason I try to teach to my students how search engines works.

I know very well the “monkey business illusion” and I often use it with my student. I think that the ability to find relevant keywords, which can be learnt and improved by exercising good written text comprehension, should precede all the other digital skills. Students must first be able to extract keywords from a text before being able to search on the internet.

I often use the “Google advanced search”, especially to search documents within a website or by filetype. I know the boolean operators, but I think that in Google they don’t improve significantly results’ quality.

I already knew the “Google Alerts” product, but I have never used it. However, after this video I’m going to try this service.

Module 2.2a

It’s a funny hoax! Some clues:

-Images photoshopped

-Made in Cascadia

-Serving the paranoia

-"X-rays will prove to be a hoax." (Lord Kelvin)

A perfect example to share with the students.

I have been a Wikipedia admin for two years and I can testify its accuracy: there are many strict rules to be observed and the admins are called to play a hard work to try to maintain the neutrality of the articles and to prevent biased articles. Moreover, all the contents are published under the creative commons license. For these reasons I advise and encourage my students to use Wikipedia.

Many times our students have no knowledge about how copyright works and often the even don’t know it at all. For them, it’s absolutely normal to reuse materials downloaded from the net. In an ideal world fair use rules would be much more permissive especially when dealing with teaching material. Unfortunately, this is not the ideal world, so our students have to know what the copyright is and they must learn to play by the rules.

Yes, digital plegiarism is a problem, but I think that this behavior can be eliminated not by censorship but by educating students on the value of originality. In addition, it is up to the teacher to assign original and creative homeworks that cannot be done simply with a “copy and paste” from the internet!