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L'insegnante specializzato tra la seduzione tecnologica e la cura delle relazioni
No full textL’articolo affronta alcune note critiche sui rischi di una visione settorialistica delle tecnologie all’interno
del contesto scuola, che va legittimato come luogo di cura degli alunni con “bisogni educativi speciali” nella
necessaria rivisitazione della dialettica tra istituito e istituente. Si tratta di analizzare con spirito critico gli aspetti
dilemmatici dell’’apparente antinomia tra il fascino del linguaggio tecnologico e l’esigenza di mantenere uno
sguardo educativo e didattico capace di andare oltre il rischio degli specialismi, ricercando necessari equilibri e
mediazioni sinergiche ed inclusive. Se è necessario il ricorso alla scelta maggiormente specialistica e tecnologico-
informatica nel sostegno degli alunni con disabilità, la rinnovata formazione dei docenti deve saldarsi alle
radici epistemologiche della cura educativa del soggetto in difficoltà. Le tecnologie assistive rappresentano una
risorsa fondamentale per supportare l’inclusione della vasta gamma di diversità presenti nell’attuale tessuto scolastico
e sociale
Scientific method and creative process for wearable technologies from invention to innovation
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is demonstrating how in the contemporary scene the boundaries between scientific method and creative process are increasingly blurred finding innovation as the point of intersection of this discursive separation. The analysis identifies the object of investigation in the emergent field of fashion wearables. In fact, the introduction of digital tools has had a significant impact on the fashion system, and wearable technologies represent the result of a new systemic interaction among diverse approaches belonging to different sectors. In this context, our purpose is to identify the moment when invention, seen as technological progress, becomes innovation, integrating and affecting people’s lives. To this end, the paper is firstly aimed in analyzing through case studies the different methods to design innovative fashion products. Both technology driven innovation and design driven innovation based methodologies are examined. The two strategies are compared and described in terms of phases, actors involved and validation of the obtained results, underlining the crucial stages of the process: the definition of the target and the scenario and the phase of product testing. This involves both traditional methods of data analysis for the technological functioning, based on numerically quantifiable parameters, and experimental verification based on the object-final user relationship. This test aims at “measuring” the effectiveness of the products in terms of comfort, usability, aesthetics and interaction. It is this methodological transdisciplinary practice that carries appreciable results concerning innovation. This approach leads to an emphasis of the designer’s cross role and it represents an opportunity for the academic research as well as for the market
Riflessività e competenze
No full textLa competenza come costrutto organico e non tecnicistico e funzionalistico implica un sapere e un saper fare come abilità, applicazione, trasferibilità. al tempo stesso sollecita la promozione della riflessività, come capacità di interpretazione, di metacognizione, di lettura intelligente, continua e critica della prassi, di ricongiunzione della stessa con la teoria
Lingua italiana e didattica per competenze
No full textIl progetto “Apprendimenti e Competenze” ha scommesso in maniera particolare sulla risorsa/docenti del gruppo di italiano. Questi sono stati chiamati a un lavoro riflessivo molto intenso. Gli esperti, intervenuti in vario modo e in tempi diversi, hanno apportato contributi significativi al percorso, di cui veri protagonisti sono stati gli insegnanti. Porre le scuole di fronte al compito impegnativo di elaborazione dei curricoli scolastici in vista delle competenze comporta la ricerca di coniugazione degli assetti epistemologici della didattica della lingua italiana con la ratio delle indicazioni normative esistenti
Social Challenges and Design. Exploiting Digital Technologies to Trigger a Behavioural Transition Towards a Sustainable Food Life Cycle
No full textToday digital technologies offer an unprecedented opportunity to facilitate dynamic and engaging interactions among people, promote conversations around crucial issues - such as climate change - guide joint action, and trigger innovation. In this paper, we aim to discuss how design can act as a lever towards adopting a more sustainable behaviour in food consumption, exploiting the potential of digital technologies. The paper first outlines the scope of interest: climate change is a global concern, and sustainability is a key topic on the European agenda. To ensure systematic changes towards a circular economy and achieve a low emission pathway, active public participation and trust in transition are essential. We reflect on this challenge by drawing on a research initiative called FOODIE, “FOOD Impact for Earth,” envisioned by an international, multidisciplinary, and heterogeneous consortium. Under such an initiative, through an active confrontation among all the involved expertise, a digital system was designed aimed to activate a virtuous model to change young citizens’ food consumption behaviour actively. Besides such a system, the methods applied to test its validity with citizens are described. The paper emphasizes the value of design as a transformative tool to respond to contemporary social challenges. In addition to natural sciences and engineering, design should indeed be considered a fundamental lever to address the environmental crisis of our time
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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