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shake your iPAD and change your perspective

Monica — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:38:32 +0000

Interesting thought-provoking video

“I can’t promise my child a life without bias. We’re all biased. But I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives” –Raghava KK

Learning and creativity

Monica — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:12:21 +0000

Sir Ken Robinson on learning and creativity. Interesting animated version of a recent talk. Have a look at this video

Learning Paradigms – Sir Ken Robinson

multilingual children

Monica — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:50:19 +0000

HIPPYYYY! …OK, there is still a long way to go before we fully understand the impact of multilingualism on development, but at least it seems that parents of bilingual kids can stop having nightmares:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/330/6002/332

Reflection and Learning

Monica — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:28:42 +0000

Some information about MIRROR, a new project we are involved in

http://www.mirror-project.eu/

Maybe you are doing your Master at NTNU and are looking for an interesting project to work on? If you are interested in knowing more about it, drop us a mail.

New PhD in the group

Monica — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:53:26 +0000

Birgit has successfully defended her PhD and we made the news with the first women dominated defense at IDI – see

http://www.universitetsavisa.no/forskning/article5249.ece

Congratulations to Dr. Krogstie with an excellent work! One can bet… more interesting work is coming – stay tuned

Turn off the light, please

Monica — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:09:11 +0000

Saturday 27 March, kl. 2030…yes, you can say it is only a symbolic action…but isn’t that better than nothing?!

quasi primavera!

Monica — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:36:53 +0000

da qualche parte la’ fuori i miei bucaneve stanno lottando. Quanto coraggio ci vuole certe volte per vincere

Monica — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:34:06 +0000

There is a growing body of evidence that blogging, chatting etc. are helping children to improve their literacy skill.

(see e.g. a recent article from BBC).

Comforting news for worried parents…now we just need to learn the new language

and reassuring news for people working with mobile and social learning technology. We might be on the right track.

come sono fortunata…

Monica — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:31:39 +0000

ma chi le fa ‘ste classifiche!?

adesso non ci possiamo neppure piu’ lamentare

Monica — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:50:24 +0000

We have recently bought a new house and we are working on it.

Here is “our” song ….ma era una casa tanto carina