Documentareil progetto Classi 2.0SILVIA PANZAVOLTA, ANSAS

MONTECATINI TERME, SEPTEMBER 23 2011

PEER EDUCATION IN THEITALIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM

THE POINT OF VIEW OF ANSAS

WHO WE ARE

ANSAS (former INDIRE) is an autonomous national research institute supervised and financed by the Italian Ministry of Education. It is located in Florence with 18 regional offices all over Italy.

The Institute’s main tasks are:- to provide students, teachers, scholars and decision makers with information about educational resources, projects and technologies in order to facilitate educational innovation and dissemination of best practices;- to manage e-learning environments for teachers and school personnel in-service training and initial training (until now, ANSAS has trained about 1,000,000 teachers through its e-learning platforms); - to promote teacher training on interactive whiteboards;- to administer the LLP programme;- to administer the alternating training system (documentation and management) and provide annual monitoring reports on the system’s state of the art;- to carry out research projects in the educational field;- to cooperate at European and international level with similar organizations (Edrene network, European schoolnet, EERA LISNET, etc)

www.indire.it

ANSAS journal “IR – Innovation and Research”

A short video about

ANSAS…

URL: http://www.indire.it/galleria/videoteca/materiali/80anni/index.htmlLanguage: Italian

CONTACTS:

S.PANZAVOLTA@INDIRE.IT

+39 055 2380427

Silvia Panzavolta Senior documentalist

PsychologistLanguage mediator Have been working

at INDIRE since 1998.

I deal with: educational documentation,

metadata, thesauri, information architecture,

European projects.

CV

ME

WHAT SETTINGS FOR PEER EDUCATION

As to our activities, we have observed that the method of peer education / cooperative learning is mainly used in two different settings:

1.SCHOOL & CLASS ACTIVITIES2.TEACHER TRAINING ACTIVITIES

SCHOOL ACTIVITIES:the GOLD project

One of our national project, called GOLD, is dedicated to school best practices.

Each year (since 2000), about 1,000 schools document their teaching practices by using the GOLD environment.

Type of information

Project descriptions (from planning to outcomes)

Students’ material

Evaluation material

Communities

Social networks

Educational material (LOs, exercises, images, ICT tools an tutorials)

THE GOLD Database on educational best practices, http://gold.indire.it/gold2/

VIDEO repository

Examples of peer education in schools

Lavorare in rete per una caring school

(en= Working in network for a caring school)

http://sites.google.com/site/lavorareinreteperuna/home

Characteristics

Student age: 3-14 years old

Main objectives: integration

Continuity among educational levels

External support: University of Rome, Specialization school in Health Psychology

Action-research, teacher training, peer education and tutoring among students

Parent peer education

Largo ai classici(en= Room to classics!)

http://ospitiweb2.indire.it/ipertesti_lt/html/content/index.php?&id_pag=5534&id_cs=2839

Characteristics

Student age: primary (6-11 years old) and upper secondary (15-19 years old)

Main objectives: presenting classics to primary students; increasing public-speaking skills

Peer tutors: secondary school students (re-mediation of difficult points)

Use of multimedia languages (digital natives)

S.E.S.S.O. Sistema Educativo e Servizi Scolastici Online

(en=Educational system and online school services)

http://tempospazio.liceobrotzu.it/

Characteristics

Student age: 15-19 years old

Main objectives: philosophy and history teaching

Peer management of the online e-learning platform

Use of ICT in formal and informal learning

Web 2.0 tools

Teacher peer education as for the integration of ICT in everyday class activities

TEACHER TRAINING ACTIVITIES:

the edulab environmentsOne of the Institute main activity is

the inservice-training of teachers.

Since 2000, we have trained thousands of teachers, school personnel and tutors on many topics

SCHOOL MANAGEMENTUSE OF ICT IN CLASSTEACHING METHODOLOGIES

SCIENCE EDUCATION INNOVATIONDIGITAL CONTENT AND PUBLISHINGSCHOOL INTEGRATION, SPECIAL NEED EDUCATIONINNOVATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND SCHOOL SETTINGS … AND MORE

PEER EDUCATION AMONG TEACHERS

COOPERATIVE LEARNING & PEER EDUCATIONThe work online is based on cooperative learning and peer

education among teachers. During the blended course they work together around concrete tasks, experimentation to do in class, discussions within the group and production of group outputs.

COACHING / TUTORINGA coach / tutor is leading the class but he / she is a teacher,

still working in school. The coach has a role of scaffolding, so the group should be able to self-organise the scheduling of the activities and the role of each participants

TOOLSThe online environment offers communication tools (i.e. forum,

chat, teleconferencing), information tools (noteboard, news section, calendar) and cooperative knowledge construction tools (wiki, blog)

examples of onlineenvironment

Work planning

Events, calendar,

news, material sharing

Sync lab

Online environment of the project “Digital schools”

Synchronous communication, desktop sharing

and exchange among users

Sync board

Virtual class, community, “Edulab”

Work group

Events, calendar,

news, material sharing

Online environment of the project “EDUSCOLA”, addressed to small islands

Online environment of the e-course “Science education Digital”

Thematic paths

Peer learning

groups are created around

common interests

TO SUM UP…PEER EDUCATION IS USED:

Within e-courses for subject teaching innovation

Within e-crouses for improving teaching methodological competences

Within courses for class & school management

In everyday class activities and in every school level

As a way to prevent form drop-out and social/school exclusion

In informal environment, by benefiting of web 2.0 technologies

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION

Questions?

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