Teaching in Scampia. Good digital practices for educational cohesion by Nicola Cotugno. Saturday 29 October 2022 09:45 – 12:00 | Auditorium ITI Ferraris – Via A. Labriola, Lotto 2G – Naples
The pedagogical experience of over twenty years is told, also through the voice of his students, in the book Fare scuola a Scampia. Buone pratiche digitali per la coesione educativa, by Nicola Cotugno, architect and teacher of Technology for thirty years at the ITI Galileo Ferraris in Naples.
From reading the book, published by Erickson Live, as also written in the preface by Eraldo Affinati and in the afterword by Marco Rossi-Doria, it is clear how school can become a powerful tool for growth and education for young people and also for civic and social redemption.
If the lesson becomes engaging, it turns into a fascinating journey through knowledge and skills, into a truly compelling life experience. And if all this is done using digital technologies - such as educational video games or the construction of websites - the talent and passion of the kids emerge, in addition to increasing their awareness and self-esteem, a fundamental driving force in neighborhoods characterized by educational poverty.
In Fare scuola a Scampia, in fact, from the direct testimony of the students, protagonists of the innovative practices carried out at Ferraris, it emerges how these teaching strategies fight boredom and school dropout and how digital tools and a humanistic use of technologies become effective in giving back centrality to the school, often blocked and anachronistic, which distances the kids from interest and from the classrooms, with the aim of giving it back importance and finding its meaning, so that it can also generate a dignified future in marginal contexts.
After greetings from Saverio Petitti, Headmaster of ITI Ferraris and Nicola Nardella, President of Municipality 8, the author will introduce the 'multimedia incursions' of the historical students - Daniele, Luigi, Michele, Genny, Antonio, Giuseppe, Lorenzo, Ylenia and Valerio - which will constitute a precious opportunity for dialogue with the current students of the Institute, an unprecedented and stimulating exchange of experiences between neighboring generations.
In addition to the author of the book, the speakers will include Sabrina Innocenti, President of the École cinéma Association, Annalisa Buffardi, INDIRE researcher, and Maura Striano, Councilor for Education of the Municipality of Naples, who will be responsible for the conclusions. The event will be moderated by Elena Lopresti, journalist.
The author
Nicola Cotugno lives in Naples; architect, former technology teacher at the Galileo Ferraris Technical Institute in Scampia, national teacher trainer (Future labs, Impara digitale), expert in educational technologies, designs multimedia learning environments.
Article published on 27 October 2022 - 17:50
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