Caterina Coluzzi, Professor of Human Sciences at IIS Montessori Repetti in Marina di Carrara and an educator at the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, writes on Agenda digitale about the fragility of the inclusive system of Italian schools facing the health emergency and the need to create learning communities.
In her vision, coding “can become a strategic tool to collaboratively develop understanding.” And the CS First Platform has many pros as a didactic tool for students with special needs or learning disorders. From an educational point of view there are many abilities involved: from problem solving to the development of creativity, from the ability to work in groups to improving attention, concentration and memory.
In order to implement a “welcoming normality” at school, it’s necessary to introduce “… the technical, pedagogic, didactic and psychological ingredients that adapt normality to the needs of students with special educational needs.” (Curriculum indications, MIUR).
The CS First Platform should not only be used during emergencies, but also as a tool for active didactics and its inclusive potential.”
Schools and Digital Tools
Distance Learning and Inclusion: Opportunities and Issues of Technology (in Italian)
by Caterina Coluzzi
Agenda Digitale, Dec. 14, 2020
Teachers interested in learning more about the inclusive potential of the CS First Platform are invited to participate in the project’s final event (Wednesday, December 16). Teachers have submitted over 40 didactic proposals to the contest on the issue of diversity, all of which employ coding to teach core subjects in primary and first-degree secondary school [see news: CS First Graduation Day].
CS FIRST GRADUATION DAY
December 16, 2020 – 5:00 pm
