Promote digital acceleration, reduce the digital divide, promote innovation paths in Italian schools. These are the objectives of the traveling workshops Zero seconds to the future, widespread, residential and dynamic laboratories for students, school managers and teachers; an open, collaborative space that aims to generate proposals and concrete actions to stimulate digital culture in teaching.
The initiative, promoted by the IIS Einaudi of Rome as part of the “Futura – the school for the Italy of tomorrow” program and financed by the Ministry of Education and Merit, in collaboration with the Federico II University of Naples, the Municipality of Portici and the IC “Don Bosco-Melloni” of Portici, arrives in the metropolitan area of Naples from 17 to 20 April and will be presented on 17 April at 5.30 pm in the Chinese Room of the Royal Palace of Portici.
Zero seconds to the future is a widespread series of events that will unfold between Portici and the Sanità district of Naples, for a total of 11 thematic workshops that will touch on various locations.
There will be more than 15 secondary schools involved, coming from Campania and other regions, 60 school managers and teachers and over 60 students. During the 3 days, the participants will meet the teachers of the Federico II University, to discuss and imagine the education and training path of the future. They will work divided into working groups within the super technological spaces of the San Giovanni a Teduccio Campus, in the classrooms of the Apple Academy.
The University tutors will have a guiding role, but the participants will be the ones to conceive, develop and produce innovative solutions. There are also those who will fly drones in the park of the Royal Palace of Portici and those who will tell, in a video laboratory, the emotions of the experience lived by the participants. With trainers from the Agriculture department, students and teachers will talk about biotechnology, biodiversity, innovation, ecological transition and sustainability; then it will be the turn of coding, between visual programming and virtual games, with the tutors of the Faculty of Engineering, in which logic and mathematics, creativity and imagination will be at the center of the debate; and then moments of discussion and training on SteAm paths and the Metaverse.
«The initiative – says Marina Di Foggia, vice-principal of the Einaudi Institute and creator of the event – was born as an experimental laboratory, an empathic, multisensory, immersive space that will allow all participants to design and build by sharing. The protagonists will be the students, school managers and teachers of schools in the Campania region, who will be able to compare themselves with their counterparts from all over Italy. A way to broaden horizons and move towards the school of the future, where training will be increasingly innovative, technological and digital.”
The motto of “Zero Seconds to the Future” is “learning by exploring”: discovering the mathematics of nature, the challenges of artificial intelligence, drone flight, the representation of knowledge in the metaverse, logical-creative reasoning in computational thinking and experimenting together the “zero” phase, to cross time and space with the use of exponential technology. To build the school of tomorrow together.
On Saturday 20 April, students, school managers and professors will finally be guided on a tour to discover the beauties of the Sanità district by the children of the “La Sorte” cooperative, an example of redemption and social innovation. The 3 days will always end on the 20th inside the Basilica of San Severo Outside the Walls with an event to present the results and meet with the institutions which will be introduced by a concert by the Sanitansable Orchestra.
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