Recent years have seen a change in the way pre-school children play and learn. In this regard, experts are increasingly questioning how effective the use of technologies is in educational and training contexts and how digital applications can facilitate the learning and development of young…

The paper presents the results of an exploratory research aimed at investigating various aspects related to the use of immersive virtual reality (IVR) in schools. In a high school computer lab, five students in a first-grade class participated in a lesson on the cardiovascular system while wearing…

The emergency caused by the SARS-coV-2 virus has generated radical transformations in people's lives. This article analyzes one of the most widespread changes that the pandemic has introduced into work settings: the adoption of diversified forms of smart working. Starting from the observation that…

Learning can be fostered by technologies through devices aimed at embedded exploration of physical and digital spaces, which provide for the immersion and involvement of users in transformative experiences also based on play. The paper reflects on the relations between learning and game and the…

The central role of Serious Games (SG) in the development of soft skills, of the worker's personal competences, prompts pedagogical reflection. In fact, if on the one hand their presence is propaedeutic to better performance in work roles, on the other hand one cannot ignore the formative scope for…

The viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that cognitive processes are rooted in the body’s interactions with the world aimed at gathering and collecting as much information as possible: cognition is situated, body based and for action (Wilson, 2002). From this perspective, embodied cognition…

The Hospital School (HSO) is configured as a non-standard learning environment in which all the indicators of the school system changes: space, time, bodies and relationships. The research saw a first phase consisting of an exploratory survey conducted with a mixed method approach to investigate:…

Intelligent personal assistants, conversational agents that can dialogue with humans through speech, have quickly entered the homes of people around the world, as smart speakers. Thanks to the use of the voice channel instead of the visual/tactile one, they allow people to perform many hands-free…

The intention of this contribution is to discuss the types of social aid organizations. The reflection aims to identify to what extent a pedagogical approach centered on the person and equipped with the most up-to-date educational reflections can create a quality training system in the helping…

The recognition and enhancement of the human represent the core of the social contract to which the Unesco report “Reimagining our Futures together: A new social Contract for Education” refers. The school of today, therefore, is called to realize what is foreseen in the report through new…

In a formal school inclusion project, the curriculum made up of the quality of human relationships, of suitable environments, of particular methodological choices, of contents, of strategies for the development of inclusive skills (Perla, 2013), is a fundamental assumption for activation of this…

Today, digital tools are an integral part of our social fabric, and this leads us to reflect on two interrelated aspects: transformation and awareness. By transformation, we are referring to those spaces where social interaction takes place, and which, thanks to the continual growth of internet…

This consideration begins from the evident observation regarding how technology has an important and central role in human lives. First of all, this study looks at the essence of the technique and the benefits and risks of technology. Then, it tries to deduce from its logical procedure the essential…

This paper describes a reflection on an experience carried out as part of a direct internship in the support specialization course at the University of Sassari. Serious Games (SG) activate gamification dynamics, develop skills and competences transferable in the real world, convey educational…

In the last decades there has been a revolution in the didactic-evaluation field, this revolution - still in progress - is called Distance Learning (DAD). This new method of teaching/learning became necessary in the pandemic period 2020-2021. It presents, as a fundamental aspect, the redefinition of…

Distance Learning - DL - launched with the sanitary emergency by Covid-19 suggests the possibility to design virtual learning environments that allow all students to reach the highest possible level of learning, considering their social, biological, and cultural characteristics to make them feel an…

Space and time of human sociality include that of the sociality required by formal and informal learning: it appears crucial to understand the ways in which technological tools, environments and devices allow the creation of relationships and communications capable of enriching the experience of…

This article describes the results of a research that involved 814 school operators on the inclusive processes activated in the school during the lockdown. The survey, conducted through the administration of a questionnaire, was aimed at understanding if and how much DaD has succeeded in ensuring…

The robots are becoming more and more common in everyday life. In the last years their use has also increasingly spread to the field of didactics, starting with their use as tools in STEM education. With the advancement of social robotics, the use of robots in didactics has been extended also to…

Through an interdisciplinary interpretation reflecting the complexity of the topic, the authors intend to provide guidelines and perspectives on pedagogical research in order to analyse AI in relation to learning and lifelong training. Is artificial intelligence really a resource worthy of…

The digital skills are fundamental to make adequate use of the digital services of the public administration and to access to the world of work. In learning contexts, it is therefore important to increase the use of digital technologies in order to improve learning processes and to develop new…

The paper presents the first results of a survey (still in progress) promoted by the QTimes - Journal of Education, Technology and Social Studies, in collaboration with the Roma TrE - Education Foundation (University of Roma Tre) and National IRASE (Academic, Social and Educational Research…

The paper examines the impact of web-mediated communication on teaching, with particular reference to the dematerialization of the learning environment. The educational environment is analyzed from the psycho-pedagogical point of view in its meaning of “place of training”, part of the didactic…

The study of the relationships between culture and technology, especially in light of media studies and mediology, shows that distinctions typical of common sense, which are not always rigorous from an epistemological point of view, continue to be used in the pedagogical field. The concrete forms of…

Education for sustainability becomes a cultural challenge and an educational priority in relation to the goals of peace, justice and inclusion. The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations and in particolar Goal 4 (Quality Instruction) call Education to drive the change of society and culture in order to…

The complexity of the times we live leads us to develop autonomy, potential, skills and competences to continually build our identity, knowledge and relationships, to reach the highest level of meta-competence; therefore the deep knowledge of the processes of introspection and relative reaction. In…

Today's school system suffers from many problems, in this article the comparison is made with the Postdam model, where we see not only a school with different laws, but also a different attention to the discomfort, treated through the eurhythmic method.

This paper would to analyze the role of digital competences in educational sistem to identify lights and shadows.

High levels of school dropouts that occur in different countries focus on the pressing need to implement educational and training programs that helps to reach the reducing dropout rate goal, within the limit set by the European Commission's plans for 2020.

Among the many reflections on multiple levels involving educational agencies grappling with the challenges of the digital age, our contribution wishes to deepen the controversial issue of ethics of social media, and the role that the education system is called to play in terms of accompanying and…

The technological, socio-cultural and economic changes and the institutional development are forcing the Universities to rethink their teaching and learning strategies. Until a few years ago (in the presence of other conditions), these strategies were the most appropriate and, for this reason, the…

The 2020 European strategy aims to a smart growth, through more effective investments in education, research and innovation fields. In particular, smart growth means improving the following areas of assistance: - education encouraging people to learn, study and update their skills; -…

“To learn”, in the contemporaneous society, is even more an integrated and ubiquitous process (Schlemmer et alii, 2009). The learning processes are today frequently developed with in-distance methodologies, using digital technologies, social networks (Massarotto, 2011), simulations and…

It is now nearly four years since the so-called "year of the MOOC", 2012; and is good to return on an issue which remains still hot. In good conscience, the expected tsunami in higher education seems to turn into a case less "disruptive" than it was painted at the time, but certainly worthy of…

Italian school is wondering about the changes to be introduced to improve the effectiveness of educational paths. These questions highlight the need to promote a culture of evaluation approaches by adopting new assessment on which to base educational decision-making processes in order to improve the…

With the advent of the web, the way we produce and manage knowledge has been profoundly changed. This technological development makes available ever more versatile instruments that are able to access and manage increasing quantities of diversified information. It is important to observe these new…

A scuola di social media è un lavoro di ricerca teorico-empirica che si focalizza sul ruolo che l’istituzione educativa può e deve svolgere nella nuova società della rete che fa intravedere rinnovate configurazioni sociali attraverso cui la comunità può esprimersi. Il lavoro è indirizzato a…

Cooperation between family and school is an important factor in promoting students success in learning and person's overall formation. Due to this, it is necessary to promote reflection on the reasons often hinder the establishment of a constructive dialogue between these two educational agencies.

The process of school orientation is a central theme in our post-industrial society. There is an increased need to find new strategy to orient ourselves. In this way, the school and the persons engaged in orientation process must find articulated and complex strategies. In this paper we will try to…

The notion of education is linked to the acquisition of the alphabets needed to communicate, produce and be able to reflect on knowledge, but is also closely linked to the ability of each person to be able to combine, in a creative way, the alphabets acquired as well as to rework them in order to…

In contemporary time, the continuous research about a possible theory approach for helped the learning activity, and associable to the use of electronics technologies is frequently the focus of a educative researches and questions. Dewey whit your pragmatism has modeled the educational objects on…

The ICTs, and the network environments that are affecting most of the forms of social relations and knowledge sharing, are powerful architectures for the participation of users, posing new challenges to education systems. Technology is only a variable among many others: it is certainly an empowering…

Different implicit approaches to promoting innovation in education can be explored through the decision making of curriculum, reflecting what is taught to students and how the students are taught. This paper discusses a profile of innovation rationales for the central and school-based approaches to…