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Selected writing, research and editorial projects spanning technology, artificial intelligence, education and human systems.
A more visual index of recent writing, with a dedicated image for each article from 2018 onward.
Uses a comic but conceptually serious scenario — two AI agents, a boundary agreement and a touch of jealousy — to reflect on delegated roles, emergent interaction patterns and second-order behaviours inside AI systems.
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Examines the difference between assistive use of AI and cognitive substitution for students with specific learning disorders. The point is not to deny support, but to distinguish help from silent replacement of the student’s own mental work.
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Argues that open weights are not enough. Meaningful openness in AI requires visibility into data choices, optimization goals, evaluation criteria and governance processes — not just access to the resulting model.
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Explains why exercises completed, time on platform and correct answers are weak proxies for learning. Without open public metrics, vendors end up defining what “educational effectiveness” means for their own systems.
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Applies an accountability mindset to educational AI adoption: schools should define the expected educational benefit before selecting a tool, not pretend that a DPIA alone answers pedagogical questions.
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Explains the design premise behind Proxima ZSP: an AI tutor should not be optimized simply to output the correct answer, but to preserve and make observable the student’s reasoning process.
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Presents Proxima ZSP as a concrete design answer to the question of whether AI can help people think. Attribution note: the work is Marco Iannacone’s; the editorial title frames it within a broader cultural discussion involving Prof. Mario Caligiuri.
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Reflects on how AI may reshape organizational structures and the HR function, treating the issue as a transformation of roles, decision flows and distribution of expertise — not merely a story about job automation.
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A direct and ironic reaction to a narrative that caricatured Gen X as mediocre. Uses cultural contrast and generational self-awareness to defend a cohort often overlooked between louder stereotypes.
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A data-driven reflection on the goals and performance of the Italian school system, touching on inclusion, learning differences and the limits of conventional educational metrics. It provides historical continuity with later work on Educational AI.
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Presentation of the EdiTouch field evaluation and the 18-month trial conducted in eight schools in Rome, including methodology and reported educational and psycho-social outcomes. Preserved on Zenodo with a persistent DOI.
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Creative Classrooms Lab webinar on the use of tablets in Special Needs Education, drawing on EdiTouch design experience, classroom practice and evidence from the 2012–2014 field trial.
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Life Is Better After Divorce is an Italian platform on separation and divorce for people who want to treat it as a turning point, not a failure. Data-driven and unapologetically ironic, it gives space to the male perspective too often missing from the mainstream divorce narrative. Includes the podcast Fattore EX.
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Apologies for the editorial silence. A few exceptions escaped.
Selected guides, FAQs and technical documents from the early Internet years.
→ open historical archiveSelected articles written as Technical Editor and contributor for Italian computer magazines during the 1990s.
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