Sospensione didattica

Ricordo l’opportunità di sospendere le attività didattiche per partecipare alle manifestazioni relative alla Legge 133.
Non è questione di destra o sinistra.
È questione di un’impressionante superficialità e scarsa lungimiranza in settori come quelli della scuola, dell’istruzione, della ricerca scientifica, che in molti altri paesi vengono considerati di importanza strategica per il futuro della società della conoscenza.
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CCK08: reactions of students

(versione in italiano)

Just to answer briefly to some CCK08 friends who asked me about the reactions of students to the freedom they have in the blogroom. Some numbers and students reactions of last year are available in an older post. Here just some partial ongoing reactions.
Emotional reaction
Admittedly, I work very much on the emotional side, [...]

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CCK08: On writing posts for italian students in english

(Versione in italiano)
We met 10 times with about 200 students of 18 curricula distributed in 7 classes, so far. We have discussed with the students all the options they have as well as the first steps they must take to begin the course.
Among other things we agreed that my posts with their assignments and [...]

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Lezione in piazza?

Lunedì prossimo (27 ottobre) dovrei fare lezione agli studenti del Corso di Laurea Magistrale Teorie della Comunicazione per l’insegnamento Tecnologia di Comunicazione online.
Tuttavia la facoltà di Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione potrebbe essere occupata per via delle agitazioni relative alla Legge 133. Si pone quindi il problema di cosa fare.
Propongo di fare la lezione in [...]

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Ricevo dagli studenti e diffondo

In relazione ai tormenti che affliggono l’università italiana diffondo il seguente messaggio
Subject: Assemblea di medicina
domani (24 ottobre) ore 16:00 al plesso morgagni, si terrà un’assemblea degli studenti di medicina e delle lauree triennali di professioni sanitarie per decidere se proporre al consiglio di facoltà di medicina una sospensione della didattica per giornate particolari (ad [...]

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CCK08: Hidden connections?

(Versione in italiano)

Amazing, really. I read Developing Online From Simplicity toward Complexity: Going with the Flow of Non-Linear Learning and what I have found is a perfect description of my experiences with the blogroom I have quoted in other posts here.
In the short paper 1 I said that often one has the feeling that [...]

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Poor Italy …

Italy’s economy is struggling. Among the cost-cutting measures we have a bill proposed recently to dispose of about 2000 temporary research staff, who are the backbone of the country’s grossly understaffed research institutions.
The bad new is so bad to appear in a note of one of the most important scientific journals, Nature 455, 835-836 (16 [...]

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CCK08: A couple of questions

Yes, let’s go for a walk in a wood and relax as many times as you like and with the passing of time you will know that wood in your own way. This means you will be looking for something there and you will disregard the rest.
Jørgen asked me if I’m establishing valuable connections in [...]

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CCK08: Networks, groups, nodes

Life struggles to emerge from the inexorable increase of entropy stated by the second law of thermodynamics with two legs: groups and networks.
As usual, we tend to dichotomise the discussion.
Groups and networks are synergic. Nodes are not a sort of dimensionless points but have structure. Internal structure of nodes is related to their functionality within [...]

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CCK08: Students begin to enter the blogroom

Dear students, you are just beginning to enter the blogroom. Welcome!
During the last week we met in your respective classrooms of Firenze, Prato and Empoli.
You belong to the curriculum for Radiologic, Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine Technologists (TRMIR in local jargon). Next monday other curricula will join.
Let’s recap here what we said in classroom.

Basics
Contents are available [...]

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