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TELECOM ITALIA GROUP
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
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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
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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”)
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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
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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
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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
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What do teachers need to teach with educ@TIon?
www.hopefullyateacherlibrarianinthemaking
► 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)
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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, …)
