With the 2022/2023 school year, "Technology - Digital Literacy" reaches its fourth edition, the project promoted by the Osservatorio Permanente Giovani–Editori in collaboration with TIM launched in the academic year
2019/2020.
The initiative was born from the need to add to media literacy (promoted through the "Il Quotidiano in Classe" project) and financial & economic literacy (exercised thanks to the "Young Factor" initiative) a third path of technology-digital literacy to accompany young people on the journey to achieve full self-mastery, with the aim of helping Italian upper secondary school students to also develop digital citizenship, develop awareness of their knowledge, acquire skills, understand their rights and duties, but, above all, to know the main functioning mechanisms of the Internet.
The kids for whom this project is intended have grown up in a digital society, show mastery in the use of devices to carry out an infinite number of activities: they take and share photos and videos, send messages, write posts and emails but often do not have the skills necessary.
This project aims to create a digital citizenship path tailored to the student, to support him in the formation of new digital skills.
The initiative is divided into various areas, starting with
Training
: that of the teachers who will be the trainers of the students.
This is thanks to the Teacher's Manual and video lessons created by a team of teachers from the best Italian universities and by local meetings or webinars, held by experts and journalists as well as national training meetings included in the context of the "Inspire a generation" cycle events held in schools in the period between October and November 2022.
Lessons
in the classroom
: which teachers will be able to hold thanks to the help of information tools, both paper and digital, made available by the Observatory free of charge, digital training material and the book of work that comes free every year, in an updated version with new topics, to all the project coordinator teachers.
THE
in-depth webinar
: the real novelty of this school year - open to all teachers of the schools involved in the project - which the Observatory has created with expert digital journalists, university professors and TIM managers.
The focus was on the new digital professions: a topic of extraordinary importance for both students and teachers called to train them, to be able to seize the job opportunities that technological innovation is determining.
Research:
the project is monitored through a qualitative-quantitative research conducted, as for the other two strategic projects of the Observatory, by the Eumetra Research Institute to know the levels of satisfaction and the level of learning in the field of technological-digital education of those who are the main protagonists of this new challenge, the students and teachers.
