Tweetometro
Contributors: Enric Senabre
Enric Senabre, Paco Gonzáles y Daniel Reina comparten una serie de reflexiones sobre la manera de comunicar, deliberar y tomar decisiones del movimiento ciudadano de las #acampadas. En el artículo se resaltan y comparan tanto las aportaciones "analógicas" como las "digitales", y entre estas últimas, profundizando en la herramienta Twettometro y el potencial que ofrece. Esta aplicación, desarrollada por Platoniq, y dinamizada por un grupo de personas entre las que se encuentran los autores del artículo, se ha utilizado durante las últimas semanas para votar las propuestas de "Democracia Real Ya" a través de Twitter.
El voto analógico, físico
Uno de los fenómenos que ha tenido lugar en el contexto de las #acampadas de mayo de 2011 en España es la creación de diferentes y variados... Read more
Expanded Education in Poligono Sur District's Junior School
Contributors: Platoniq
Within the framework of the 11th ZEMOS98 Festival, with the Expanded education Symposium at its core, in March 2009 Platoniq carried out a pilot Bank of Common Knowledge (BCK) experience at Antonio Domínguez Ortiz
secondary school in the Polígono Sur neighbourhood in Seville, also known as Las 3000 Viviendas. The school structures its educational approach around the Educational Compensation Plan, which forms part of the Commissioner's Comprehensive Plan for Polígono Sur, an area whose social, economic and cultural characteristics call for new educational models and... Read more
Informal Web-Based Education
Contributors: Sclipo
Platoniq interviews Gregor Gimmy, from Sclipo.com (1)
1. What are the origins of SCLIPO? When did it start? What were the main goals?
Sclipo started officially in Jan 2007. I launched a prototype in Nov 2006, which got great feedback from the internet community.
I had the idea, built the first prototype and wrote the business plan. I have been involved over many years in internet and education / knowledge management. E.g., I founded a web-company in San Francisco in 1999 which helped Biotech researchers share knowledge. With the emergence of internet video, I saw that knowledge exchange via web will change the way we learn. It will not substitute today's "physical, off-line" learning, but... Read more
MobilEDUCATION
Contributors: Teemu Leinonen
Platoniq interviews Teemu Leinonen (1)
1. M-learning-related projects such as MobilED, ShareIdeas and others are operating in pretty much uncharted territory, as the present of mobile communication technologies evolves every few weeks/months. Have you conducted any previous studies on similar enterprises before starting your project or do you prefer to focus on this particular reality?
In our research practice we have several stages.These are: contextual inquiry, participatory design, product design and implementation of software and/or social/technological system as hypothesis. The process is iterative and we understand that in the later stages of the process we always gain more understanding of the topics and activities central in the earlier stages.
During the contextual inquiry we... Read more
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