Tuesday 14 March 2023 at 17:30 | Council Chamber Silvia Ruotolo – Municipality 5
via R. Morghen 84 – 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 the institutional greetings of Margherita Siniscalchi, President of the School Commission of Municipality 5, the following will talk with the author: Geppino Fiorenza, President of AsCenDeR-Documentation Center; Rosa Maglione, Coordinamento Libera Napoli; Maria Grazia Silverii, DS Scuola Secondaria I° GA Rocco Afragola. The event will be moderated and coordinated by Anna Copertino, journalist. There will be interventions and 'multimedia incursions' by current and historical students of the ITI Ferraris of Scampia.
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 March 13, 2023 - 10pm
