Cloud computing experiences
in Italian schools
enabling mobile and byod
teaching and learning
Giovanna Chiozzi TILab–Telecom Italia
STRATEGIC SEMINAR - mEducation in Schools Supporting innovative pedagogical practice
with mobile technologies
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Contents
This is a three parts presentation showing Telecom Italia commitments and TILab innovation activities for education
► Educate teachers and students for a secure use of Internet ► educ@TIon – the «cloud & smart» solution for digital school ► eSchooling – research project
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Telecom Italia and the secure use of
Internet
Educating teachers and students for a secure use of
Internet at school
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Telecom Italia and the secure use of
Internet at school
2010-2013
► Navigare Sicuri
to educate Italian families, teachers and students about online safety rules, practices and behavior (Italian bus tour, website, video and printed ad hoc materials):
http://navigaresicuri.telecomitalia.it
► “Born with the network”
booklet for parents, teachers and children/students about the fundamental rules for the safe use of internet, the risks and the tools to prevent them
From 2013
► Anch’io ho qualcosa da dire (I’ve something to say, too!)
to promote a greater understanding and awareness about the risks that children/students may face in the “online” world (target: children/students, educators, parents and
professionals) - (workshops and educating events throughout the Italian territory)
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educ@
TI
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duc@TIon – Strategy and Innovative Goals
Transform “traditional” learning to keep up with the evolution of technology (e.g. multimedia learning books) and allow learning anytime and everywhere
► Become close to “digital”
student 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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duc@TIon – Main Characteristics
A new proposition offering a complete solution of innovative, license-free, integrated web applications with a modular approach:
► multiplatform open source modules specifically developed to avoid software
license costs
► totally independent from users’ hardware and operative systems
► cloud-based approach assuring flexibility and scalability; multitenancy
reduces to zero impacts on school data centre
► Single-Sign-On and profiling system strengthen the security policy
(guaranteed by the certifications achieved by Telecom Italia cloud infrastructure)
► supporting different types of educational contents from self-produced to web
available to contents acquired from school editors
► ready to interwork with e-publishing platforms to acquire and securely manage
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duc@TIon Keywords
Bring Your Own Device
Bring Your Own Connectivity
Cloud Computing
Multiplatform
Software-as-a-Service
Single-Sign-On
Web Application
Digital Content
Cooperative Learning
Social Reading
Mind Map
Serious Game
Editorial Mash-up
Augmented Reading
Web Quest
Semantic Search
Learning Management System
Learning Community
Student Portfolio
Universal IWB
Flipped Classroom
Virtual Classroom
Remote School
Lesson Recording
Multimediality
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duc@TIon Trials
Istituto Suor Orsola Benincasa – Naples
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
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eSchooling
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eSchooling – the Project
Research project (February 2013 – July 2015) co-financed by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento and in partnership with:
► ► ► ► ► University of Trento www.eSchooling.it
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eSchooling – Objectives and Strategy
To design and test an innovative integrated model of gidital learning for schools based on the development and monitoring of competences
To provide specific solutions for metacognition, cooperative learning and school-student-family interaction
► Affordable
► Usable with any device
► Able to profitably integrate tools
and technologies (including “social”)
► Facilitating the introduction of
technology in teaching and learning
► Promoting new and modern
processes of knowledge building, sharing and retrieval
