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Mobilising teaching and learning for a better future in Europe:

the Telecom Italia’s educ@TIon experience

Giovanna Chiozzi

TILab – Telecom Italia

UNESCO MLW, Paris, February 19th 2014

Telecom Italia innovation activities on “Digital School”

2 Giovanna Chiozzi, Gianni Nassi – TILab

Mobilising teaching and learning for a better future in Europe: the Telecom Italia’s educ@TIon experience

Contents

► educ@TIon – an experience of mobile teaching and learning ► Strategy ► Characteristics ► Trials

► What can teachers do with educ@TIon?

► What do teachers need to teach with educ@TIon?

► Telecom Italia’s commitment for the future



Mobilising teaching and learning for a better future in Europe: the Telecom Italia’s educ@TIon experience Mobilising teaching and learning for a better future in Europe: the Telecom Italia’s educ@TIon experience

educ@TIon – Strategy

Transform “traditional” learning to keep up with the evolution of technology (e.g. multimedia learning books) and allow learning anytime and everywhere ► become closer to “digital”

students habits of today ► introduce mobile devices

in the learning experience ► promote collaborative

learning communities ► establish didactic/learning

social networks ► overcome barriers of

teaching time and space ► exploit connectivity

(from “school on the net” to a “net of schools”)




educ@TIon – Characteristics

► multiplatform open source modules based and applications specifically developed, to avoid software license costs and to assure application usage on every type of devices

► cloud computing approach and modular Web

Application assuring flexibility and scalability; can be tailored according to specific needs of every school; multitenancy can reduce, up to zero, impacts on school data center

► Single-Sign-On and profiling system strengthen the security policy guaranteed by the certifications achieved by Nuvola Italiana and offer flexibility in platform management

► supporting different types of educational contents from self-produced, to web available, to contents acquired from school publishers




educ@TIon – Trials

Istituto Salesiano S.C.M. – Caserta

ITT Buonarroti and Liceo Prati – Trento

Five schools in Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano

Convitto Nazionale Umberto I – Torino

S.M.S. Rosso di San Secondo – Caltanissetta

Liceo Lucrezio Caro – Rome

EPICT Centre at University of Genoa

University of Modena-Reggio Emilia

Trial with USR Emilia-Romagna (three schools in Bologna and Reggio Emilia)

Istituto Suor Orsola Benincasa – Naples

School year # Schools # Classes # Total users

2010/2011 2 2 50

2011/2012 6 12 300

2012/2013 12 20 600

2013/2014* 9 52 3000

* updated to January 2014




What can teachers do with educ@TIon?

► Promote collaborative learning (guided building of multimedial learning materials, social reading, …)

► Facilitate communication and information/knowledge sharing between teachers and students, teachers and teachers, students and students (iManager, learning community, iViewer, iLibrary, …)

► Include remote students in schools and in the teaching experience of the class




What do teachers need to teach with educ@TIon?

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► Role change: from “traditional teacher” that transmits knowledge to “tutor” that builds knowledge together with the student

► Availability for a start-up effort

► Active management commitment

► Training and support: programs needed to help teachers use ICT for didactic purposes

► Teachers community: capitalization on ICT didactic experiences and sharing of digital didactic strategies; exchange of self-developed contents

► Digital learning contents («certified» for schools/students or provided by school publishers)




Telecom Italia’s commitment for the future

► eSchooling: support the development of competences to build European citizens and innovatively integrate tools and technologies (including the "social" ones)

► SIM for education: define special rates for teachers’/students’ connection and for the consuming of multimedia learning materials

► Integrate mobile teaching and learning solutions: act as a unique partner towards schools to connect and coordinate all mobile learning players (content providers, training providers, school publishers, families, software providers, hardware providers, …)

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