How does one select a project? What are the key skills necessary to live and work in the 21st century?
Irene De Angelis Curtis, Headmaster of the Istituto d'istruzione secondaria Leonardo Da Vinci in Rome, has no doubts: “We are interested in tools that will help us develop transversal skills.”
This is why the school decided to participate in the second edition of Project Meet No Neet, promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale in collaboration with Microsoft as part of the YouthSpark Programme. The project includes technological, social and entrepreneurial training sessions that will allow young men and women to acquire useful skills for living and working in the 21st century and entering the working world.
At the “Interactive Didactic Tools for inclusive Didactics” workshop promoted by Microsoft, FMD School Innovation Manager Ana Lain interviewed Headmaster Irene De Angelis Curtis.
“We shouldn’t be afraid of experimenting, of trying new things, because this is what gives things a meaning,” explains the headmaster. In fact, Prof. Giuseppe Cacciotto, a support teacher who is staunchly in favour of also using new technologies for students with special needs, was at the launch of the Phyrtual Innovation Gym Network.
