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The eight thousand Digital Champions, the network of “activists, volunteers and digital enthusiasts that are to raise the awareness of their countrymen throughout Italy,” also includes two professors who have been collaborating with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale for many years (from Grandparents on the Internet to Educational Robotics). Paola Lisimberti and Domenico Aprile are both professors at the Liceo Ludovico Pepe in Ostuni, in the Province of Brindisi.
Mimmo Aprile, Computer and Applied Sciences Teacher: "I have been nominated as Digital champion in Caprarica di Lecce, a small town about 12 km. southeast of Lecce where my parents were born and where I lived until I received my university degree.
Paola Lisimberti, Italian and Latin teacher: "Ever since I chose to purse didactic innovation, I have formed a team with my students, we have learned about sharing, learning from our errors, looking for common solutions and our roles have expanded horizontally, rather than vertically. We travelled together to the Rome Maker Faire (where we had a stand in the Montessori Area) and upon our return set up a Lego Educational Robotics Lab, which was financed by ERDF. If there is a role that I believe is important at present, it’s that of Digital Champion. I believe this is a fundamental role to coordinate the many different sources of change. Revolutions need two things: ideas and persons.
The videos were submitted for the launch of the Phyrtual Innovation Gym Network.
