Digital Educational Ecosystems and multimodal alphabets: teachers' thinking between needs for innovation and resistance


The unfolding educational scenario imposes reflections related to the function and decisive role that technologies can have in settings where emergency looks like a constant condition of the world and not a temporary and limited phenomenon. It requires new skills for teachers, related to the dispositifs of anticipation and prevision, in order to redesign educational spaces, characterized by equity, sustainability and prosociality. These environments are Digital Educational Ecosystems, having multimodal and hybrid characterization, which are open to the aggregation of different subjects and experiences, feedback, and dialogue. The paper presents some results of a survey administered to over a thousand teachers to gather their thoughts about digital and hybrid spaces and tools in education. Resistance and resilience are just the poles of a broad and varied overview that redefine the concept of teacher's professionalization.