Complex communication needs (CCN) in school settings may hinder the participation of student with Autism Spectrum Disorder also affecting their quality of life, relationships and learning process. For this reason, it seems appropriate to promote a Didactics that pay attention to student’s…

As systemic organization which interacts with the external environment (Weik, 1976), the school has to provide suitable solutions for the multiple challenges of the context, in order to reach a quality education for all and each one. Considering it and the feature of the school as organization based…

Daily experiences are achieved by remaining connected to digital environments, in a dimension defined as onlife. To date, in fact, "virtual" environments and "real" environments can no longer be considered distinct "places", both representative of learning contexts where people, especially young…

The “generation Z” is the one that, since its birth, has had access to the Internet and social network: Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok are the "daily diet" of this generation. The rhetoric of digital natives according to which young people have different learning and information processing…

How neuroscientific research can help educational sciences and education and understand cognitive pro-cesses is the challenge of those involved in educational neuroscience. Neuroscience seems to be an invisible matrix of other sciences and practices, and it is easy to be tempted to fall into a…

After a long regulatory process, the educational offer of motor and sports education in the Italian primary school is enriched, thanks to the inclusion of the Sport Sciences specialized teacher with the intention of enhancing corporeity in its multiple expressions as a personal right and cognitive…

Initial training has often changed and changed without a vision and objective that could meet contemporary challenges. In fact the quality of teacher training cannot be separated from the overall school policy of a country. If school does not become one of the basic concerns of national policy,…

This paper intends to analyze from a pedagogical point of view the relationship between Digital Natives and technologies in order to investigate how the new digital devices enter into relationship with the socialization processes and the evolutionary dynamics of the adolescent, and how they…

The article wants to describe a training to teachers of middle and high school about inclusive didactic applied on use of technologies. In the article will be presented the four modules that they characterized the course and they led teachers to acquire specific knowledges: (1) interconnections…

The paper aims to analyse a being facing and a being in relationship by listening to the other basic element for communication and educational methods that can outline an approach to knowledge that takes into account the learning processes as result of communicative relationships. This takes the…

Childhood is a cultural construction, and it is within a certain way of representing childhood that children experience and learn to relate to the context of reference; in some cases, the context, the culture to which they belong, and their families appear inadequately supportive, indeed harmful and…

The paper aims to investigate the relationship between learning processes and attachment systems in an integrated and multidisciplinary perspective. In particular, the analysis will focus on the question, still not much debated in the scientific field, of the complex system of interrelationships…

In the 1960s, within the framework of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at the University of Birmingham, a number of scholars, linked by their interest in popular culture, not only denounced the industrial logic that transforms content into products, but were also in search of the…

Il periodo post-pandemico ha lasciato aperte questioni importanti e ineludibili che interessano la scuola e l’educazione in generale e che interrogano tutti coloro che si occupano di insegnamento-apprendimento sulla necessità di vivere un’esperienza scolastica e didattica di qualità, capace di…

Questo numero della rivista QTimes - Journal of Education, Technology and Social Studies si propone di contribuire a un costruttivo dialogo tra i ricercatori per comporre un’indagine critica, multilivello e interdisciplinare sui divari nella competenza digitale, fornendo uno spazio in cui…

In the educational context, technology is increasingly perceived as a key element of great educational renewal. For this reason, its use must be versatile and dynamic and adapt to various factors such as the teacher, the specific level of education, the characterising elements of the discipline, the…

Due to the immersive and pervasive nature of technology and connectivity, digital skills are constantly evolving. It’s a stratified, immanent and historical knowledge, not limitated to technical skills only. It touches on the cultural, economic and political citizenship dimensions as well as the…

With the pandemic period, the generation of data has grown exponentially and in order to ensure that it can be accessed and read by citizens and future generations, new communication methods are emerging, which are immediate and easy to interpret, without the need for specialised skills. Through the…

In the wake of media education and research in the field of experimental pedagogy, this paper traces the regulatory stages, theories and empirical applications that are involved in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), with a focus on the inclusion of these tools in the educational…

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the conceptual framework of Universal Design for Transition (UDT) (Best, Scott, & Thoma, 2015; Thoma et al., 2009), a recent framework that integrates the founding principles of Universal Design for Learning (Meyer, Rose & Gordon, 2014; CAST, 2018;…

Over the past two decades, technological change has produced new digital environments capable of accommodating and enhancing the artistic and cultural heritage that exists in vision but also in interaction. The contribution analyzes the possibilities of using networked historical-theatrical…

Increasing the quality of learning and teaching by promoting a closer link with research is the main mission of the European Knowledge Area. After a first revolution that has affected the school, characterized by the introduction of distance learning, today we are witnessing an ambitious challenge…

Today there is no relational, physical, social and economic/digital phenomenon that manages to escape from algorithmic modeling: this pervasiveness of algorithms shapes and deconstructs economic and social relationships. The question is very serious and deserves a continuous pedagogical study: it is…

The ethical-functional design, programming and management of artificial intelligence and robotics represent one of the greatest challenges that the new generations are certainly facing. A challenge that commits man to a return to the sense of the relationship that he/she has always weaved with…

The paper poses as a basis for analysis a question connected to the evolution, which took place from the 2000s to today, of the amount of data relating to the European training environment and made available to teachers of all grades and levels: "2000: Data Base and E-learning Platforms; 2020: Big…

Google is the most widely used search engine in the world (Statcounter, 2022) and many users consider it an indispensable tool for accessing any content on the Web. Nevertheless, one cannot overlook the fact that the service offered by the Mountain View company is subordinate to the profits it makes…

In the educational applications of multimedia and virtual reality there is a work of redefinition of the principles relating to the construction of learning environments, and of the role assumed by digital instruments in attributing significance to real life contexts. digital skills education, an…

The relationship between giftedness and the digital revolution deserves particular attention as regards the emotional experience of gifted children and young people. They are dependent on the emotional context, they don’t know how to act without allowing themselves to be permeated by the affective…

In today's hyper-connected society, the implications of developing one's own identity, experience and collective memory are influenced by algorithms. Everything is interconnected between real and virtual World. In this panorama there is also the world of school and training that has had to adapt,…

Disinformation by non-European actors can have negative risks to the detriment of people, which are not predictable and calculable. The economic value of the production, use and development of artificial intelligences has been growing exponentially in recent years. But what are they? What are the…