With the coordination of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the support of Intel, the 196° Circolo di didattico di Roma is one of three schools that have begun didactic experiments with the JumPC portable computer. A laptop has been donated to each child to use for lessons at school and homework at home. The computer looks like a small briefcase. In the classroom, the PCs, which also have a web cam, are networked and the teacher can see what every student is doing thanks to a custom designed software.
During the lesson, the project was presented by the school administrator Eva Pasqualini, the English teacher and the coordinator of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, Romano Santoro, as well as some children’s mothers.
The average number of desktop PCs per school is 26, while the figure is lower for laptops.
- Alfonso Molina, Towards a Democratic Knowlege Society in Rome and Lazio, Fondazione Mondo Digitale, 2008 (charter on "Instruction")
