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Eminent Conference, Dec 4th-5th
Margherita Di Stasio - Elena Mosa
PuntoEdu and FOR:
from formal to informal learning
National Agency for the Support of School
Authonomy
(formerly INDIRE)
based in Florence
DOCUMENTATION
TRAINING
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
COMMUNICATION
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
More than 650.000 teachers involved in the training
Processi di Innovazioneper l’Inglese e l’Informatica
nella formazione della scuola primaria
(DM 61)
Processi di Innovazioneper l’Inglese e l’Informatica
nella formazione della scuola primaria
(DM 61)
20052001
2003 2004
Corso Concorso Dirigenti Scolastici
Corso Concorso Dirigenti Scolastici
For TICFor TIC
Riforma(DLgs 59)
Riforma(DLgs 59)
EuropaEuropa
ATAATA
Since 2001 the Agency has been piloting blended-learning courses for school
2008
176.609 1.850 200.677
62.000
105.103
161.000
DiGiscuola
DiGiscuola
OCSEOCSE
Neoassunti
Neoassunti
Neoassunti
Neoassunti
Neoassunti
Neoassunti
Neoassunti
Neoassunti Neoassun
ti
Neoassunti
41.120
12.000
3.500
42.259
Main features of PuntoEdu:
Learning by doing approach
Flexibility and personalization
of learning path
Social environment
Puntoedu methodology
The “actors” of PuntoEdu:
E-tutor
Course director
Virtual/real classroom
Trainees
11
22
33
44
55
From Puntoedu … to Edulab
Collaboration
Knowledge Learning
enhances generates
builds
WORK PROCESS
Differences between Puntoedu and Edulab
methodology
Activities are individual
E-tutor “validates” them
Sharing experiences
in virtual
classroom
E-tutor act as a
facilitator
Collaborative activities
E-tutor supports workgroup
analysis phase, test phase,
collaborative project
E-tutor expert of the main
topics
[Send your project] [Send your project]
Theoretical background
On line communities: extention and cohesion
Partial extension
Global extension
Working groupWorking group
Web sharingWeb sharing
Interest group Interest group
Community of best practice
Community of best practice
Community of practice Community of practice
Low
cohesion level
High
cohesion level
What happened then?What happened then?What happened then?What happened then?
Each member State believes that Longlife Learning is one of the most difficult challenge we
have to face.
We assist to changes in society, in the nature of work
and in the way we communicate and continuously search for knowledge.
In front of this scenario States have to facilitate access to longlife learning and create open
learning environment.
The Lisbon strategy
From the trainees’ voices…
“As a suggestion the Agency
should think how to keep
“connected” trainees once
they have completed their
training programme” (…).
More evidences from a case study
ForTIC 2002/03
In this project forums had a huge success:
hundreds of people interacting even after the conclusion of the training
programme.
In these forums, trainees produced together a book and a…
More evidences from a case study
Literary cafe !!!
Result of monitoring of trainees
Wishes and needs
interpretation
of teachers’ role
PuntoEdu features
consultation of the materials
relationship with the tutor
exchanging ideas with
colleagues
PuntoEdu Limits
TIME
wish
continue on course activities
Boundaries set by the
structure
of thematic course
needs
continuity community
Synergy amongst the three types of learning environment
Network and community
TWO INTERESTING METAPHORS
network knowledge as a schema network:
continuous retroactive feedback between
subject and environment; this feedback
changes and enriches the subject as well as
the environment
community the learning process is possible
by virtue of the participation to the community
Our learning environment must be continuously modified by learners
themselves and the learners community is the source both of the
content
as well as the learning possibility
Our mission: provide an answer
REQUEST
continuity
community
continuity
continuity
community
community
Participants set
the arguments
of the
collaborative
activities
teachers’
framework
Teachers’ expetations
technology for teaching
improvement of their own
teaching subjects
FOR answer
Teaching Subject Units
News Collaborative activities
TV section Repository
Learning Objects
Teachers’ feedback
Proposed topics
Submitted articles
FORum and ForGroups
articles
The typical FOR participant: Giorgio
Barba
Give tools to this project
FORum on “Learning in Virtual Words”
moderated by Andrea Benassi
the manager of the Second Learning
Project,
the Agenzia Virtual Campus
An island on Second Life
in order to develop the projects
born as result of the FOR collaborative
activities.
Please welcome Please welcome
Giorgio BarbaGiorgio Barba
Please welcome Please welcome
Giorgio BarbaGiorgio Barba
Margherita Di Stasio
Elena Mosa
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