General Info
The enhancement of STE(A)M education is one of the elements on which the National Digital School Plan launched by the Italian Government (PNSD, Law 107/2015) is based. It is a guidance document of the Ministry of Education, University and Research that aims to innovate the Italian education system through digitization, highlighting the opportunities it offers in terms of training, skills and employment. The Plan is organized in 4 fundamental steps – tools, skills, accompaniment, training – to be achieved through a series of objectives and actions divided into specific areas.
The “Digital, Entrepreneurship and Work” area aims to promote and bridge the digital divide in terms of skills and employment, promote careers in STE(A)M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Maths) and enhance the relationship between school and work.
The STEAM Lab project is part of the PNSD and provides classrooms dedicated to the experimentation of competitive paths in STEAM for students of all levels.
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It is a cultural action, starting from a renewed idea of school as an open space for learning and not just a physical place, and as a platform for students to develop skills for life.
In this paradigm, technologies become enabling, everyday, ordinary, at the service of school activity, first of all training and learning oriented activities, but also administration, contaminating - and in fact reuniting them - all school environments: classrooms, common spaces, laboratory spaces, individual spaces and informal spaces. With extended repercussions on the territory.
The objectives do not change, they are those of the educational system: student's competences, their learning, their results, and the impact they will have in society as individuals, citizens and professionals. These objectives will be updated in content and ways, in order to respond to the challenges of a rapidly changing world, which requires more and more mental agility, transversal skills and an active role of young people.
This will require - and here is the greatest cultural and human investment - that all school staff, not just teachers, get involved, and be supported, to embrace the necessary challenges of innovation: methodological-didactic challenges, for teachers, and organizational challenges, for school leaders and administrative staff.
The tools to overcome them, and at least accompany them, are contained in this Plan, and will probably not be exhausted with it.
The Plan is organized in 4 basic steps: (i) tools, (ii) skills, content, (iii) training, (iv) accompaniment.
(i) Tools;
targets:
-Provide all schools with the conditions for access to the information society
-Make the "Right to the Internet" become a reality, starting from school
-Covering the entire digital access chain of the school, to enable digital didactics
(ii) Skills and content;
targets:
-Define a common matrix of skills digital that every student must develop
-Support teachers in their role as facilitators of innovative educational paths, defining with their teaching strategies to enhance the key competences
-Involve students through formats innovative and 'goal-oriented' didactics
-Innovate school curricula, promoting careers in the "STEAM" area (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts &
Maths) and promoting women's careers in technological and scientific fields (STEM).
(iii) Training;
objectives:
-strengthen the preparation of staff in digital skills, reaching all actors in the school community
-Promote the link between innovation didactics and digital technologies
-Develop effective, sustainable standards and continue over time for training to educational innovation
-Improving training for innovation didactics at all levels (initial, incoming,on duty)
iv) Accompaniment;
Targets:
-Innovate the forms of accompaniment to schools
-Propagate innovation within each school
-Give a territorial dimension to the Plan National Digital School
- Enable and strengthen tools for intelligent collaboration of external partners to the school about the plan's actions
- Transform the school monitoring digital, from administrative to strategic, giving a permanent dimension to the Plan
-Monitoring, quantitatively and qualitatively, the entire Plan and its implementation
- Strengthen the relationship between the Plan and the scientific dimension of the relationship between school and digital
The preparation of this Plan is a legal obligation pursuant to paragraph 56 of the Law of July 13
2015, n. 107/2015 (so-called "La Buona Scuola").
The drafting was carried out by the Technical Secretariat of the Minister of Education, University and
Research - in particular by Damien Lanfrey and Donatella Solda - in the light of the insured connection by the Chief of Cabinet Alessandro Fusacchia with the Head of Department for Planning and Programming and the management of human, financial and instrumental resources Sabrina Bono and the General Manager for interventions in the field of school construction, for the management of the Structural Funds for education and innovation digital Simona Montesarchio, as well as with the Department for the Educational System and Training and the competent Directorates-General rationae materiae for school systems, training of school staff, evaluation, and students, and with the Department for university, higher education and research.
The STEAM Lab project is part of the PNSD and provides classrooms dedicated to the experimentation of competitive paths in STEAM for students of all levels. “We walk the path of wonderful mechanisms” involves primary school children with workshops, in which “they design, create and program objects able to obtain data from the surrounding reality and process them into information ready to be analyzed”. “Leonardo STEAM Lab” is the path for secondary school students: after studying the great scientist with multiform genius, with elements of robotics and coding, the children build – personalizing it – a Leonardo machine, documenting the work done. The students of the secondary school, with “Photographing Science”, are challenged to study the birth of the Universe using photographic techniques: finally, a Photo Contest is organized and an exhibition with the best photographs taken.
List of actions:
1) Access
-Fiber and ultra-wideband at the door of every
school
-Internal wiring of all school spaces
(LAN/W-Lan)
-Connectivity: the right to the Internet
starts at school
2) Students' competences
-A common framework for skills
students' digital
-Innovative scenarios for the development of
applied digital skills
-A research unit for skills
of the 21st century
-Take computational thinking to the whole
primary school
-Upgrade the "Technology" curriculum vitae
at secondary school
3) Learning spaces and environments
-Digital environments for teaching
-Challenge Prize for Digital School
-Guide lines for active BYOD policies
(Bring Your Own Device)
-Plan for practical learning
-Innovative Scholastic Education Education
4) Digital, entrepreneurship and work
-A curriculum for entrepreneurship (digital)
-Girls in Tech & Science
-Digital Careers Plan
-School-work for the digital enterprise
5) Digital identity
-Single Authentication System
(Single-Sign-On)
-A digital profile for each student
-A digital profile for each teacher
6) Digital content
-Minimum standards and interoperability of environments
online for education
-Promotion of Open Educational Resources (OER) and
guidelines on self-production of educational content
-School libraries as environments resource literacy digital information
6) Digital administration
-Administrative digitisation of the school
-Electronic register
-Strategy "School data".
7) Staff training
- In-service training for educational and organizational innovation
-Improving initial training on educational innovation
-Technical assistance for first cycle schools
-The new training for new recruits
8) Accompaniment
- A digital animator in every school
-Territorial agreements
-Stakeholders' Club for digital school
-A gallery for the collection of files
-Giving innovative networks a permanent hearing
-Digital School Observatory
-A Scientific Committee to align the
-Plan to international practices
-The monitoring of the entire Plan
-A clear link with the Three-Year Plan
for the Training Offer
Educational Material/Resources
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