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App Emotions

App Emotions

App Emotions

The first educational tool developed by Project Social Hosting Hub is an app that helps “children, through simple games, to recognise their emotions and those of their friends and relatives. Through the feelings of Cinderella, Snow White and the seven dwarves, Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio, the children learn to identify fear, anger, sadness, happiness or joy, disgust and surprise. In recognizing the similarities and differences between these moods, not only do they learn to express how they feel, but they also learn to understand how others feel – online, too.”

 

Valentina Santarpia, a journalist at the Corriere della Sera, explains the operation of the FavolApp. The project was developed by two teachers: Cristiana Zambon and Paola Pupilli.

 

The objective, explains Cristiana, is "to shape dialogue, empathy, to focus on what the characters feel and empathise with them, trying to review the situation. And it all happens with simple immediacy. The emotions are represented by emojis with marked expressions of the mouths and eyes. The print is all in capitals, but there’s not much text. It’s a deconditioning tool that can also be used with foreigners who hardly speak our language.”

 

In the coming weeks, we will look at the technical development of the project.

 

School: an app that teaches children to recognise emotions. The idea of two teachers.

The meeting of two teachers, one from Milan and one from Rome, one a computer science teacher, the other an artist, has produced a tool that will be used by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale to create a new physical (but also virtual) educational ecosystem

by Valentina Santarpia

Corriere della Sera, Jan. 28, 2021

 

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