Cosa fanno gli studenti in classe? La stessa cosa che fanno in autobus o metropolitana: si connettono. E averli “presenti” per tutto il tempo della lezione è praticamente impossibile. Ma è davvero un male?
Money quote: “Even when my students stash their cellphones, my classes look like an Apple commercial – faces hide behind screens embossed with the same famous fruit. I have no delusions that they’re taking notes for class or referencing that day’s reading. A University of Waterloo professor who put a postgraduate at the back of his lecture hall to observe his students learned that 85 per cent of them did something unrelated to class on their laptops; a Cornell University study confirms that most students engage in ‘high-tech “doodling”’ and communication during class. One might think that the whopping $65,000 cost of attending Boston University for a year would provide ample reason to maintain focus during class, but one would be wrong.”
https://aeon.co/essays/can-students-who-are-constantly-on-their-devices-actually-learn
Money quote: “Even when my students stash their cellphones, my classes look like an Apple commercial – faces hide behind screens embossed with the same famous fruit. I have no delusions that they’re taking notes for class or referencing that day’s reading. A University of Waterloo professor who put a postgraduate at the back of his lecture hall to observe his students learned that 85 per cent of them did something unrelated to class on their laptops; a Cornell University study confirms that most students engage in ‘high-tech “doodling”’ and communication during class. One might think that the whopping $65,000 cost of attending Boston University for a year would provide ample reason to maintain focus during class, but one would be wrong.”
https://aeon.co/essays/can-students-who-are-constantly-on-their-devices-actually-learn
Aeon
And their eyes glazed over
My college students are never entirely present in class, addicted to texts and tech. Is there any hope left for learning?
Apple, con il lancio dell’iPhone 7, ha aggiunto un “aggeggio”, un “dongle” alla sua serie di adattatori hardware attualmente in commercio: il connettore per agganciare le cuffie audio tradizionali ai nuovi telefoni tramite la presa Lightning; è il più economico di tutti: costa solo 9 euro come ricambio se si perde quello incluso nella scatola del telefono.
Adesso dunque gli adattatori di Apple sono diventati 26. Il sito 17 Orbits li ha mappati tutti. È una singolare Apple “in minore”, che offre strumenti per riuscire a fare ancora cose che i suoi apparecchi non consentono più di fare.
Money quote: “Here are all of the currently available Apple-branded adapters with their descriptive links”
https://17orbits.com/2016/09/05/apple-all-25-of-the-apples-dongles-in-one-place/
Adesso dunque gli adattatori di Apple sono diventati 26. Il sito 17 Orbits li ha mappati tutti. È una singolare Apple “in minore”, che offre strumenti per riuscire a fare ancora cose che i suoi apparecchi non consentono più di fare.
Money quote: “Here are all of the currently available Apple-branded adapters with their descriptive links”
https://17orbits.com/2016/09/05/apple-all-25-of-the-apples-dongles-in-one-place/
⓱orbits
⓱apple – All 25 [er, 26] of Apple’s Dongles in One Place [Updated]
Update: here is the Mysterious Dongle #26 just announced by Apple. It’s included in the box with the purchase of a new iPhone 7. But you’ll lose that one so get a spare one for just $9 …
Gli animali sono vivi. Ma hanno anche un'anima?
Money quote: "None of this will come as a surprise to pet owners or anyone who has observed virtually any kind of animal for any length of time. Science is rediscovering what Charles Darwin, in his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) concluded: that the variations between humans and other species in their capacity to feel and express emotion are differences in degree rather than in kind. It’s a short step from there to recognition that individual animals have personalities, and to reckon that not only do they live – they have lives."
https://aeon.co/ideas/do-only-humans-have-souls-or-do-animals-have-them-too
Money quote: "None of this will come as a surprise to pet owners or anyone who has observed virtually any kind of animal for any length of time. Science is rediscovering what Charles Darwin, in his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) concluded: that the variations between humans and other species in their capacity to feel and express emotion are differences in degree rather than in kind. It’s a short step from there to recognition that individual animals have personalities, and to reckon that not only do they live – they have lives."
https://aeon.co/ideas/do-only-humans-have-souls-or-do-animals-have-them-too
Aeon
Do only humans have souls, or do animals possess them too?
Scientists are increasingly showing that animals have as much capacity as humans, if not more, to feel complex emotions
Bruce Lee è sempre più una figura singolare. Laureato in filosofia, attento a fondere est con ovest, aveva anche scritto un po' di cose su allenamento, presenza, etica, consapevolezza. Ma qua te se ne scoprono?
Money quote: "A philosophy major in college, he fused ancient ideas with his own singular ethos informed by the intersection of physical and psychological discipline, the most famous manifestation of which is his water metaphor for resilience."
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/01/bruce-lee-notebook/
Money quote: "A philosophy major in college, he fused ancient ideas with his own singular ethos informed by the intersection of physical and psychological discipline, the most famous manifestation of which is his water metaphor for resilience."
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/01/bruce-lee-notebook/
The Marginalian
Bruce Lee’s Never-Before-Seen Writings on Willpower, Emotion, Reason, Memory, Imagination, and Confidence
“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”
Forwarded from EverywhereCommerce - il futuro dell'ecommerce
in realtà le perdite operative sono quasi 9 milioni di euro, ma i giornalisti non leggono bilanci
https://www.mark-up.it/banzai-ricavi-in-crescita-nel-primo-semestre-2016/
https://www.mark-up.it/banzai-ricavi-in-crescita-nel-primo-semestre-2016/
Mark Up
Banzai: ricavi in crescita nel primo semestre 2016 | Mark Up
Dopo la vendita della Banzai Media Holding (vertical content) a Mondadori, la piattaforma italiana tiene il focus sull’eCommerce.
Che bello quando gli americani riscoprono il Rinascimento fiorentino. Sono bei momenti. Accade ciclicamente, con mia grande soddisfazione (dopotutto, sono di Firenze) e tutte le volte è come se fosse la prima
Money quote: "Mentors matter. In today’s culture, we tend to value youth over experience and have little patience for old-fashioned learning models. Ambitious young entrepreneurs want to tear down the corner office, not take lessons from the people in it. However, the experience of innovators in Renaissance Florence suggests this is a mistake. Some of the greatest names in art and literature willingly paid their dues, studying their craft at the feet of the masters"
https://hbr.org/2016/01/renaissance-florence-was-a-better-model-for-innovation-than-silicon-valley-is
Money quote: "Mentors matter. In today’s culture, we tend to value youth over experience and have little patience for old-fashioned learning models. Ambitious young entrepreneurs want to tear down the corner office, not take lessons from the people in it. However, the experience of innovators in Renaissance Florence suggests this is a mistake. Some of the greatest names in art and literature willingly paid their dues, studying their craft at the feet of the masters"
https://hbr.org/2016/01/renaissance-florence-was-a-better-model-for-innovation-than-silicon-valley-is
Harvard Business Review
Renaissance Florence Was a Better Model for Innovation than Silicon Valley Is
Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Black Death.
Come si fa a diventare CEO (cioé amministratore delegato) di un'azienda? Semplice: basta seguire alcune semplici regole. Oppure no, complicato, le regole sono fatte per essere violate. E tutto quello che c'è nel mezzo.
In realtà, ragiona il NYTimes, ci sono più strade, diverse ma alcune molto veloci. Interessante per chi vuole fare carriera.
Money quote: "To get a job as a top executive, new evidence shows, it helps greatly to have experience in as many of a business’s functional areas as possible. A person who burrows down for years in, say, the finance department stands less of a chance of reaching a top executive job than a corporate finance specialist who has also spent time in, say, marketing. Or engineering. Or both of those, plus others"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/upshot/how-to-become-a-ceo-the-quickest-path-is-a-winding-one.html
In realtà, ragiona il NYTimes, ci sono più strade, diverse ma alcune molto veloci. Interessante per chi vuole fare carriera.
Money quote: "To get a job as a top executive, new evidence shows, it helps greatly to have experience in as many of a business’s functional areas as possible. A person who burrows down for years in, say, the finance department stands less of a chance of reaching a top executive job than a corporate finance specialist who has also spent time in, say, marketing. Or engineering. Or both of those, plus others"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/upshot/how-to-become-a-ceo-the-quickest-path-is-a-winding-one.html
NY Times
How to Become a C.E.O.? The Quickest Path Is a Winding One (Published 2016)
New evidence shows that a mix of skills, especially technology skills, counts more than simply long experience in one specialty.
The Verge ha comparato la macchina fotografica dell'iPhone 7 Plus con quella del primo iPhone: un mondo di differenza
Money quote: "not so long ago when we were beyond excited just to be able to have a camera always waiting in our pockets. The fact that those pictures looked as though they'd been shot through an old sock before being dipped in cold tea? We cared not a jot."
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2016/9/14/12917512/original-iphone-camera-vs-iphone-7-photo-comparison
Money quote: "not so long ago when we were beyond excited just to be able to have a camera always waiting in our pockets. The fact that those pictures looked as though they'd been shot through an old sock before being dipped in cold tea? We cared not a jot."
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2016/9/14/12917512/original-iphone-camera-vs-iphone-7-photo-comparison
The Verge
The iPhone 7 Plus vs. the original iPhone: a camera showdown
Back in June of 2013, I published my first piece on The Verge. Titled "Post Processing, why the smartphone camera changed photography forever," I argued that the launch of the iPhone in 2007 made...
Esperimenti sui topi
Money quote: "This is a far cry from a wild mouse's life—no cats, no traps, no long winters. It's even better than your average lab mouse's, which is constantly interrupted by white-coated humans with scalpels or syringes. The residents of Universe 25 were mostly left alone, save for one man who would peer at them from above, and his team of similarly interested assistants. They must have thought they were the luckiest mice in the world. They couldn't have known the truth: that within a few years, they and their descendants would all be dead."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh
Money quote: "This is a far cry from a wild mouse's life—no cats, no traps, no long winters. It's even better than your average lab mouse's, which is constantly interrupted by white-coated humans with scalpels or syringes. The residents of Universe 25 were mostly left alone, save for one man who would peer at them from above, and his team of similarly interested assistants. They must have thought they were the luckiest mice in the world. They couldn't have known the truth: that within a few years, they and their descendants would all be dead."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh
Atlas Obscura
The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’
Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the '60s and '70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
Dieci consigli su come diventare scrittori. Dall'ovvio "scrivi!" Al meno ovvio "vivi al di sotto dei tuoi mezzi e fa che i mezzi siano frugali". Perché poi quando scrivi non lo fai per avere successo, no?
Money quote: "If you’re not passionate about writing and about the world and the things in it you’re writing about, then why are you writing? It starts with passion even before it starts with words."
https://lithub.com/how-to-be-a-writer-10-tips-from-rebecca-solnit/
Money quote: "If you’re not passionate about writing and about the world and the things in it you’re writing about, then why are you writing? It starts with passion even before it starts with words."
https://lithub.com/how-to-be-a-writer-10-tips-from-rebecca-solnit/
Literary Hub
How to Be a Writer: 10 Tips from Rebecca Solnit
1) Write. There is no substitute. Write what you most passionately want to write, not blogs, posts, tweets or all the disposable bubblewrap in which modern life is cushioned. But start small: write…
È arrivata la tastiera italiana di iPad Pro da 12,4 e 9,7 pollici. Il mio articolo per Macitynet
https://www.macitynet.it/la-tastiera-italiana-ipad-pro-124-97-pollici/
https://www.macitynet.it/la-tastiera-italiana-ipad-pro-124-97-pollici/
Macitynet.it
Ecco la tastiera italiana di iPad Pro da 12,4 e 9,7 pollici
La tastiera di Apple per iPad pro, nelle varianti per il gigante da 12,4 e nel "normale" da 9,7 pollici, è un ottimo strumento di scrittura. La sua filosof
Per tutti quelli che hanno un Apple Watch e in questi giorni stanno cambiando il loro iPhone con un nuovo modello. Ecco come fare a Trasferire l'Apple Watch a un nuovo iPhone
https://support.apple.com/it-it/HT205189
https://support.apple.com/it-it/HT205189
Apple Support
Utilizzare l'Apple Watch con un nuovo iPhone
Se acquisti un nuovo iPhone, puoi trasferire il tuo Apple Watch dal vecchio iPhone a quello nuovo.
Com'è che a un certo punto tutti abbiamo cominciato a portare lo zainetto con tutte e due gli spallacci su? Anni fa quello giusto lo portavano Oslo e sempre con uno spallaccio su.
Slate fa una inchiesta per la su serie "Cool". Delirante scrivere una storia lunghissima su come si porta lo zainetto. Ma quando sono arrivato alla fine ho capito che questa è una storia che si fa davvero leggere
Money quote: "After speaking with 75 ex-students and students from all over the country, spanning 60 years of high-schoolers—from the class of 1965 to the class of 2026—the data (however unscientific my polling) were clear. Every ex-student from the class of 1994 and earlier, 12 students, had, to a man, one-strapped. “Everyone one-strapped. No exceptions,” reported a graduate of the class of 1991. “I one-strapped all through college,” reported one of his female classmates."
https://www.slate.com/articles/life/cool_story/2013/10/two_straps_on_a_backpack_or_one_strap_what_s_cool.html
Slate fa una inchiesta per la su serie "Cool". Delirante scrivere una storia lunghissima su come si porta lo zainetto. Ma quando sono arrivato alla fine ho capito che questa è una storia che si fa davvero leggere
Money quote: "After speaking with 75 ex-students and students from all over the country, spanning 60 years of high-schoolers—from the class of 1965 to the class of 2026—the data (however unscientific my polling) were clear. Every ex-student from the class of 1994 and earlier, 12 students, had, to a man, one-strapped. “Everyone one-strapped. No exceptions,” reported a graduate of the class of 1991. “I one-strapped all through college,” reported one of his female classmates."
https://www.slate.com/articles/life/cool_story/2013/10/two_straps_on_a_backpack_or_one_strap_what_s_cool.html
Slate Magazine
Slate’s Use of Your Data
Forwarded from MacchiaChannel
Lo YouTuber Strack Azar ha preso il video di "Dancing in the street" e ha sostituito la musica con i rumori d'ambiente e le (finte) voci di Bowie e Jagger, realizzando una delle cose più divertenti che si siano viste sulla rete da un po'.
Link: https://youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc
Link: https://youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc
YouTube
Dancing in the Street | Silent Music Video
A "silent" music video for David Bowie and Mick Jagger's "Dancing in the Street."
By Strack Azar and Michael Stevantoni.
Voices by Oliver Zaciu and Michael Stevantoni. Bowie-scream by Keon Ali.
By Strack Azar and Michael Stevantoni.
Voices by Oliver Zaciu and Michael Stevantoni. Bowie-scream by Keon Ali.
La storia del fondatore di Patagonia, dei vicini di The North Face e del movimento ambientalista che nasce dalla passione per l'outdoor. C'è così tanto da dire che io già lungo articolo del New Yorker appena sfiora la superficie. Molto bello.
Money quote: "Chouinard spent the heart of this past summer as he often does, wandering around the northern Rockies, visiting old friends, and fishing the prime trout streams of the greater Yellowstone region. He did so with one good arm (rotator-cuff surgery, in June), a scarred cheek (basal-cell removal, in July), and a heavy reliance on his tenkara fly rig—a simple pole with no reel, the latest implement in his long-running crusade for simplicity and thrift. Now and then, he checks in with the office—Patagonia headquarters and his primary home are in Ventura, California—but for days at a time no one really knows where he is."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/19/patagonias-philosopher-king
Money quote: "Chouinard spent the heart of this past summer as he often does, wandering around the northern Rockies, visiting old friends, and fishing the prime trout streams of the greater Yellowstone region. He did so with one good arm (rotator-cuff surgery, in June), a scarred cheek (basal-cell removal, in July), and a heavy reliance on his tenkara fly rig—a simple pole with no reel, the latest implement in his long-running crusade for simplicity and thrift. Now and then, he checks in with the office—Patagonia headquarters and his primary home are in Ventura, California—but for days at a time no one really knows where he is."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/19/patagonias-philosopher-king
The New Yorker
Patagonia’s Philosopher-King
How Yvon Chouinard turned his eco-conscious, anti-corporate ideals into the credo of a successful clothing company.
Volete diventare dei ninja della mail? Vincere la soverchiante valanga di messaggi quotidiani? Ecco qui la soluzione: i sette tipi di possibili email e come trattarle al meglio
https://lifehacker.com/the-seven-types-of-emails-and-how-to-deal-with-them-1643964553
https://lifehacker.com/the-seven-types-of-emails-and-how-to-deal-with-them-1643964553
Lifehacker
The Seven Types of Email and How to Deal With Them
We all deal with inbox overload every day, whether it's messages from work or suspicious salutations about a surprising inheritance. But you can categorize all the emails you receive into seven basic categories to more easily process them without taking all…
Se Google ci si mette come sa fare per la pubblicità, forse potrebbe davvero combattere l'ISIS. Forse.
Money quote: "Jigsaw, the Google-owned tech incubator and think tank—until recently known as Google Ideas—has been working over the past year to develop a new program it hopes can use a combination of Google’s search advertising algorithms and YouTube’s video platform to target aspiring ISIS recruits and ultimately dissuade them from joining the group’s cult of apocalyptic violence"
https://www.wired.com/2016/09/googles-clever-plan-stop-aspiring-isis-recruits/
Money quote: "Jigsaw, the Google-owned tech incubator and think tank—until recently known as Google Ideas—has been working over the past year to develop a new program it hopes can use a combination of Google’s search advertising algorithms and YouTube’s video platform to target aspiring ISIS recruits and ultimately dissuade them from joining the group’s cult of apocalyptic violence"
https://www.wired.com/2016/09/googles-clever-plan-stop-aspiring-isis-recruits/
Wired
Google's Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring ISIS Recruits
The company's tech incubator and think tank subsidiary Jigsaw is trying the ISIS-fighting technique Google knows best: targeted advertising.
Su Motherboard c'è una web serie a fumetti non male. Siamo arrivati al terzo episodio. Molta atmosfera, bei disegni.
Per recuperare, visto che è domenica e oggi si leggono i fumetti, potete usare i tre link qui sotto.
Money quote: "This week's Terraform is a little different—we're presenting the beginning of a multi-part web comic from Koren Shadmi, the award-winning illustrator and graphic novelist (and longtime TF contributor), that casts a unique eye on our precarious march into the future. Without further ado, I'm thrilled to introduce the first episode of Highwayman"
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/man-of-god
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/afterglow
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/disruption
Per recuperare, visto che è domenica e oggi si leggono i fumetti, potete usare i tre link qui sotto.
Money quote: "This week's Terraform is a little different—we're presenting the beginning of a multi-part web comic from Koren Shadmi, the award-winning illustrator and graphic novelist (and longtime TF contributor), that casts a unique eye on our precarious march into the future. Without further ado, I'm thrilled to introduce the first episode of Highwayman"
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/man-of-god
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/afterglow
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/disruption
Vice
Man of God
He's looking for a ride—to anywhere, anytime.
È arrivato l’iPhone 7 ed è arrivato anche il momento della mia recensione, per Il Post, del nuovo apparecchio di Apple. Mi ha colpito molto la batteria, la macchina fotografica incorporata e il nuovo sensore Touch ID allo stato solido. Ma c’è molto di più, comprese un po’ di mie immagini. Potete leggere tutto qui:
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2016/09/18/iphone-7-plus/
https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2016/09/18/iphone-7-plus/
Il Post
La recensione dell'iPhone 7 Plus - Il Post
Ho provato in questi giorni il nuovo telefono di Apple, che è un discreto miglioramento rispetto alla generazione precedente. Processore, foto/videocamera, schermo, batteria. L'unica cosa che non cambia è la forma, ma non bisogna giudicare il libro dalla…