Thelemathics in schools, their potentialities and risks.
Andrea Mameli (CRS4, Cagliari)
This article aims at describing the first results of a research work on
telematics in schools carried out by a group of students from the "Eligio
Porcu" Secondary School in Quartu.
The students' response to a theoretical introduction to the Internet and
its interactive and communication tools showed that the use of telematics
in schools results in an enhacement in learning because of its positive
effect on the way students catch information. Moreover, it encourages
collaborative work as well as the chances offered by both syncronous and
asyncronous communication and by "navigation" across the world wide web.
Further information was given by the students' participation to the
didactic project based on the creation of an "on-line" short story
launched by the CNR Istituto di Tecnologie Didattiche in Genoa (the
project included 10 Italian secondary schools, each with one class).
The students also filled in a questionnaire which stressed on the need to
carefully make up the didactic paths and on the importance to properly
train teachers for the purpose.
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