Parental strategies for limiting youths’ exposure to online risks

Given the new risks and opportunities generated by the use of the Internet since childhood, it seems necessary to deepen the parental mediation strategies with which parents can protect their children from exposure to online risks, perpetration of inappropriate behaviours online and psychosocial risks associated with a dysfunctional use of the web. This scoping review aims to analyse the literature of the last ten years on the strategies and attitudes of parents towards online risks. Twenty-nine scientific documents about parental mediation outcomes on children’s use of digital tools have been examined. Literature has been investigated in the PubMed, PsycINFO and Scopus databases. Only studies with a paediatric population published in the last ten years (from 2009) have been selected. The results suggest that empathy and interest are protective factors towards the exposure and perpetration of online risks of children, without limiting the opportunities offered by the Web.

Progetto Aumentiamo la realtà con il QR-code

With reference to art. 9 of our Constitution “The Republic promotes development and scientific and technical research. Protects the landscape and the historical and artistic heritage of the nation “and art. 6 “The Republic protects linguistic minorities with special rules”, the project “Let’s increase reality with the qr-code” wanted to enhance the school as a community open to the territory in which it operates and develop skills in the field of active and democratic citizenship. Two paths have been taken: researching historical sources to learn about the country’s past and experimenting with the use of a Quick Response Code to combine the past with the present and leave a trace in the future.

Pier Cesare Rivoltella, Tempi della lettura. Media, pensiero, accelerazione. Brescia: Morcelliana (2020)

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Privato, pubblico e aperto

In this text we try to clarify some misunderstandings that in our opinion have arisen on the issue of digital educational platforms. These misunderstandings are based on the one hand on the profound misconception of the meaning of “open”, which is reduced to “free”, and on the other hand on a conception of the company as an activity necessarily extraneous to the ethical dimension. Overcoming these misunderstandings could lead to a collaboration between private and public, between profit and non-profit that defines precisely the models and standards and lays the foundations for the construction of an ecosystem of open, inter-operating and ready-to-use platforms both on the software side and on the content side.

Effetti dell’astinenza dai media in un gruppo di studenti universitari

The pervasiveness of new media has raised some questions as to what would happen if we were to deprive ourselves of different media forms for a shorter or longer time. The debate on this issue has become intense in recent years, especially in relation to the hypothesis that the relationship with the web and internet can configure a greater and more insidious dependence on media. To verify how, and if, this happens, I asked 121 university students to refrain from the consumption of media on smartphones, tablets, radios and televisions for a period ranging from three days to a week. The results, collected in diaries compiled during the test, testified to different levels of attachment to media, the interruption of which produced notable consequences in the daily organisation of time and social relations.

Pratiche mediali, social media e influencers nella formazione e nell’espressione identitaria dei bambini: una ricerca esplorativa

With the spread of social media, we witnessed the multiplication of web’s figures such as influencers and content creators. The pupils in the last years of primary schools (9-11 years old), engaged in a complex task of defining their own identity, are strongly exposed to entertainment contents conveyed by social networks and online video platforms. The present exploratory study, which involved 173 students from a primary school in Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy), aims to investigate the role of social media and influencers in the formation and expression of the identities of children, highlighting a universe little known and only superficially explored by teachers and adults with educational roles. The contribution has the twofold objective of: investigating children’s practices related to social networks (in particular those based on video content such as YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat) to offer an overview of the situation in an age group increasingly targeted by these social networks; making a reflection on how much the figures of content creators and influencers play a role in the identity formation of children in 4th and 5th year of primary school. The results lead to new research questions and educational path to make teachers and parents more aware of this issue.

Il coding nei percorsi di tirocinio degli studenti di Scienze dell’educazione e della formazione. Uno studio di caso

The rapid changes that characterize the world of work ask school and university to critically rethink the way to facilitate creative skills. The coding and the development of computational thinking are declined in this context as facilitators of these skills in everyday life and in working contexts. The contribution presents a case study that describes peer tutoring laboratory activities focused on learning coding skills that involved students, enrolled in the Degree Course in Education and Training Sciences of the University of Siena, as a form of alternative curricular internship during the lockdown period. The study shows how students approached this form of internship, how they designed peer tutoring sessions and the gains in terms of learning and professional development.

The (ir)resistible acceleration of digital education. The emergence of the blended school form in a state of education emergency

This article focuses on the recent acceleration of digital education triggered by the Covid19 pandemic. Protective measures, particularly the social distancing, translated into an institutional shock for the standard form of schooling. By drawing on a summary of current investigations on the topic (Brehm, Unterhalter & Oketch, 2021; Grek & Landri, 2021), the article describes how swift digitalization has reinforced the entanglement of public education into private owned and commercial platforms and paved the way to the emergence of the blended school form. The instabilities of the current process of institutional repair are underlined together with the risk of increasing unbalanced private and public partnership in the education system, and/or returning to the standard form of schooling in the future post-pandemic scenario.

Raccontare con le immagini. Lo Stop-motion come strumento per l’apprendimento collaborativo

The purpose of this paper is to describe the activities carried out in a class with children of the third year of primary school (Istituto Sant’Anna, Torino) school year 2019/2020 and to test the potentialities of audiovisual and technological language in the development of knowledge and skills, like the management of a collaborative activity, the correct use of technological tools and the awarness of the project’s path.Thissperimental activity starts from the hypothesis that creating a stop-motion video, focused on a disciplinary subject, can give good results both from a learning point of view and the acquisition of social and relational skills thank to the type work, mainly carried out in groups.

Tecnologie immersive per la didattica museale: una proposta per la valorizzazione dello scambio intergenerazionale tra nonni e nipoti

The evolution of technology has led to a redefinition of training paradigms in different educational and cultural contexts. In particular, immersive technologies, which involve the user on a sensory, motor, emotional and cognitive level, have a high potential for success in learning processes. The contribution presents a proposal for the enhancement of the intergenerational exchange between elderly and young people through the fruition of cultural heritage, mediated by immersive technologies.