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Teacher
Patrizia C.
During the school year 1999-2000, after 7 years of teaching experience
carried out with my colleague Linda Giannini, we drew up together
a project entitled: On-line learning and cooperation. For personal
reasons I had decided to ask for a transfer but, at the same time,
I wanted to keep up a link in teaching with my friend and colleague
Linda.
This year I obtained a transfer to the Ist. Comprensivo Don Milani
in Latina. However my colleague and I have maintained contact
through e-mail at our homes and also at the Faculty of Training
for Primary School Teachers at Rome University where we are both
employed as teaching practice supervisors, with partial exemption
from regular teaching duties.
We had already been using technology for teaching purposes since
1994. Over the years our Nursery School section had taken part
in the MPI Multilab experimental project and had shared teaching
activities using the Internet with other schools, virtual friends
and families:
The story chain
Dedo and the fox
Virtual worlds
Billo's journey
CommunicAction with families
We therefore felt the need to continue the network of exchanges
between our two schools, and with other educational institutions
and families, based on common projects, in order to achieve:
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comparison
over methodology;
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conscious
and active interaction between children-children and children-adults;
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creativity
and the development of an interactive community.
A
primary and fundamental objective of the project we have devised
is the evaluation of learning resulting from the use of one
or more collaborative environments made up of subjects who are
physically distant.
We have hypothesized teaching strategies which take account
of:
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the needs of children to express themselves and communicate
through various techniques;
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what has already been carried out in previous years;
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the content of the teaching programmes and training plans
of the two different schools;
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the training and didactic opportunities provided by the development
of multimedia.
Educational objectives
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to understand, master and compare communication media at the
personal and social level
Didactic objectives
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to gather, elaborate and interpret data
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to describe situations and problems and propose solutions
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to develop intentional and creative communication skills
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to present the results of a process to outsiders
Relational and behavioural objectives
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to understand the idea of belonging to a virtual community
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to develop the ability to work in a group, with particular
reference to cooperation at the local and virtual level
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to encourage the introduction of teaching methods which make
versatile use of a range of technological means, languages
and codes
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to encourage, through the use of media, cognitive and social
skills and the development and reinforcement of effective
logical abilities
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to tear down geographical barriers through telematic communication
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