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Welcome greeting by Onorato Grassi, President of Indire

Dominant trends in international scenarios

The most recent OECD documents and the results of the international debate set the ICT in school from a different perspective. Nowadays, the introduction of ICT in education is not limited to the use of hardware in the classroom, but it deeply affects the evolution of the whole learning environment.

Giovanni Biondi Director of Indire
Introduction of the session

Richard Sweet “Centre for Post-compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning” (University of Melbourne)
Educational ICT: do the returns justify the investment?

Francesc Pedró Senior policy analyst, “Center for Educational Research and Innovation” (CERI OECD)
What do we know about the effective uses of ICT in education and the demands of the new millennium learners?

Digital communication is a social construction force, that has the power to create new forms of society and sociality, especially among young people (just think of mobile phones). An extra-curricular and personal cultural know-how that can represent an experimental source of knowledge and experience.
How can we transform the "media dimension" of school? How can we introduce new forms of communication in the learning process?

Luca Toschi Professor In “Communication Theory and Techniques”, and Director of the Laboratory of Communication strategies (University of Florence)
Introduction of the session

Derrick De Kerckhove Director of the McLuhan Program and holder of the “Rientro dei cervelli” grant at the Faculty of Sociology at the University Federico II in Napoli
The iPod University; can the classroom survive it?

Maurice Benayoun Artist, Creative Director CITU (University of Paris 1)
Education, Creation, Revelation, Transmission

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