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Rome, 4-5 December 2008
Giovanni Biondi, EUN Chairman
Are ICT introduced Are ICT introduced in schools?in schools?
The first EUN meeting took place in Brussels
in 1998 and the situation was this:
• TV was the dominant entertainment technology
• There was a limited use of PCs in schools. In American schools, where the use of PCs was more widespread(1 pc every 10 students), the PC was used at least once a week but only in 6% of the cases
• The use of mobile phones was not very common amongst young people
The beginnings
Source: La vita quotidiana di bambini e ragazzi, Indagine ISTAT (2008)
In the period 2000 - 2008 In the period 2000 - 2008
the % of children and
young people (3-17)
who use a PCPC rises from
41.7% to 59.8%59.8%
What has happened over the last ten years
InternetInternet usage rate moves from 28.5% in 2000 to 66.9%66.9% in 2008
In the same period the use of mobile phones mobile phones increases amongst young people:
the percentage has increased from 55,6% to 92% 92%
(with the largest increase to be found amongst the younger ones)
Fonte: La vita quotidiana di bambini e ragazzi, Indagine ISTAT (2008)
What has happened over the last ten years
The whole scenario has changed
there are now numerous technological devicesavailable to the general public
and there are new uses for traditional devices
What has happened over the last ten years
For example, mobile phones mobile phones are not used
simply to phone but also for :
1. sending/receiving messages (81,3%81,3%)
2. playing games (above 50%above 50%)
3. Keeping a telephone directory (42,7%42,7% )
Source: La vita quotidiana di bambini e ragazzi, Indagine ISTAT (2008)
What has happened over the last ten years
4. taking and sending photos (38,8%38,8%). This function is at the seventh place, followed by:
5. shooting, sending and receiving videos (15,2%15,2%), recording conversations (10,3%10,3%), using the diary (11,2%11,2%), connecting to the internet (4,2%4,2%)
What has happened over the last ten years
Source: La vita quotidiana di bambini e ragazzi, Indagine ISTAT (2008)
• Developments of computer labs and huge investments for
making hardware widely available• Convinction that ICT in schools equals having PCs• Low level of interest in digital contents that still in
the second half of the 90s are considered of low quality• Use of the PC as a device, mainly for word
processing
Past trends
• A technological scenario characterized by a plurality of tools and their necessary integration
• Transition from web 1.0web 1.0 to webweb 2.02.0, the social net
• Dismissal of the e-learning platforms inspired by transmissive model in favour of Knowledge Management and Learning Environment models based on activities
Future trends
• LOLO characterized by the SCORM standards
• RepositoriesRepositories• Copyright and the relationship between
commercial and free content free content produced by teachers (for example, digital assets and LO)
Development of new digital content
Development of new digital content
ICT migrates ICT migrates FROMFROM the computer labs the computer labs
INTOINTO the classrooms with the classrooms with:
• Interactive Whiteboards• New organisation of teaching
(schools without classes, integration of different media and books, collaboration among schools as in e-Twinning)
• ECDL gives place to the New Digital Skills
The present
These are the Eminent themes
and these are the priorities for
the EUN work-programme!
The Future in already on!
A selection from YouTube:
A vision of students today
By M. Wesch, Kansas State University
A short video summarizing the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to
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