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…

This contribution, examining the Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR), an emerging form of Assistive Technology that incorporates all robotic systems capable of providing assistance through social interaction (Feil-Seifer & Mataric, 2005), aims to initiate an organic reflection on the potential…

Starting from the Lippmann-Dewey debate, this paper relates its themes to nowadays’ society, understood as featured by complexity, difficult access to scientific information, and poor political involvement. Such context prompts the authors to adopt Barber’s futurology, which envisages three…

In the innovative climate of continuous experimentation in which we are involved, development should be regulated not only by technical-scientific disciplines but also by humanistic ones such as education, psychology, anthropology and philosophy in order to train scientists to program machines that…

The paper analyzes the role that artificial intelligence can assume in the definition of more stimulating and inclusive teaching-learning environments, with particular reference to the possibility of supporting teaching action through augmented reality experiences. Augmented reality allows you to…

The paper analyzes the role that artificial intelligence is taking on in teaching processes, with particular reference to the possibility of monitoring students’ attention, during lessons or during an exam, using facial recognition software and movement analysis eyepieces. If on the one hand these…

In the realization that we cannot ignore that we live in what is called the infosphere, an environment in which the boundaries between the online life and the offline life in the reality of relationships, gradually disappear, this work wants to reflect on how this new environment makes it necessary…

The present article aims at providing an overview of the studies and research that, in the last years, have applied the principles of Affective Computing (Picard, 1995) to education, particularly in the supporting and developing of social and emotional competences in subjects with special…

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…

Pattern of thinking have impacted the gender difference for a long time with the distribution of roles and different task depending on the gender. The attention for the physic nature, for the character and for the attitude of the men and women has product generalization, where models and stereotypes…

In western society, especially in the last decade, there has been an significant increase in the number of children in educational poverty. This situation is the consequence of multiple social factors that amplify the weaker subjects’ deprivation about their opportunities of learning and becoming…

This contribution reflects upon the issue of “educational poverty” linked to the current health situation. The emergency aroused by the spreading of Covid-19 has had multiple negative effects which, whilst affecting social and economic policies worldwide, have also experienced significant…

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…

This paper, through a study of the scientific literature, aims to understand the link between the phenomenon of educational poverty, young NEETs (Not engaged in Education, Employment or Training), and the use of new technologies in order to obtain effective training. This study deals with the…

The partnership between school and local actors is a very important organizational level factor for providing quality education, and because of the changes resulting from integrated teaching in the emergency and post-Covid19 restart phase it is even more so. The contribution focuses on the Italian…

Territorial inequality, and the consequent economic impoverishment, mean that instead of the urban dimension “typical” of the collective imagination a whole series of “minor” realities emerge, located in mountains, islands, internal and remote areas or in the suburbs of the country. In these…

The theme of educational poverty is becoming increasingly central to the national and international scientific and pedagogical debate, but also to the public and political one. The concept is multidimensional and presents the characteristics of scale necessary to frame the complexity of social and…

The paper examines the main causes of educational poverty (economic crisis, inadequate redistribution of wealth, quality of education and training, personal choices); the social effects that can derive from the emulation of models in which the logic of “everything and now” prevails and the role…

Technology, now for more than a decade, has entered the world of teaching in a predominant way, causing unconditional enthusiasm thanks to the myriad of possibilities offered by the countless applications and, at the same time, fears and harsh criticisms, especially for the consequences related to…

Nearing the end of the Europe 2020 Strategy (EC, 2010) the essay aims to explore, through a meta-analysis and critical reflection, equity as one of the forms of prevention adopted by the Finnish school system, among the best in the world in terms of outcomes, participation and teachers training…

This contribution aims to illustrate the contents of a learning module titled “The Italian language in the changing school”, as part of a PON project in a primary school, which involved disciplines such as Italian and Geography and which had as its main objective the reduction of scholastic…

Educational courses must be inclusive, so as to allow anyone, regardless of personal skills and needs, to complete them profitably. To achieve true inclusion it is necessary that both technological tools and teaching contents are accessible, that is, usable by everyone. But that's not enough:…

Maker Education is a cultural movement that is spreading in the educational field and that can offer significant opportunities to students in conditions of social, economic and cultural disadvantage. However, embracing the maker education movement and spreading this approach in schools and centres…

“Even people with developmental, learning and adaptation difficulties must be considered protagonists of their own growth” (MPI, 1975). This statement by the Falcucci Commission is a cornerstone of the path that has led Italy towards inclusion. In fact, although there are still pull and push out…

The paper intends to highlight the issues concerning educational poverty at the time of Covid-19 and how the inequalities that are encountered in the school environment in contexts of educational normality have become acute and / or have acquired new forms in the phases I and II. The changes in the…

The contribution aims to reflect on the recent and complex phenomenon of the implicit early school leaving in the Italian school context. This problem represents an indicator of educational inequality and lack of fairness (Benvenuto, 2016) which is rooted in the poor quality of the school system in…

Among the factors contributing to educational poverty are not only the lack of adequate educational infrastructures at a local level, but also the lack of cultural, sports and leisure educational services, and poor access to digital platforms. From data available in the literature, this article will…

The scholastic spread and dispersion is a complex phenomenon that is extended to the entire education system. The international community has for a long time invested in addressing the human right that every child has at an education, which is, therefore, an inalienable right that is due to every…

Health emergency and the following crisis for the pandemic, still alive, give evidence how much our social- economic systems create many inequalities. We can suggest, for example , not all the Countries is not able to put into action the hygienic rules to prevent the virus diffusion or in our …

The papers examines the elements of novelty that characterize current educational relationships, which in the era of the social emergency covid-19, become web-mediated. Teachers and students have been forced to radically change their way of communicating and interacting, without having, among other…