Carla Cozzarelli

Measuring Empathy to Support Learning Design and Narrative Game: A Phenomenological Approach

This work is the first step of a research aimed at the creation of instruments for empathy measurement in the learning - teaching process. In this context, the present article contributes to investigation towards the phenomenological approach to empathy concept (spatial theory of empathy[1]) and to the relationship between empathy and learning. The paper documents the choices made in the design stage of a narrative game aimed at measuring the competence of empathy. Assessment of empathy is a necessary step in a wide investigation path that could be especially useful in the design of innovative and adaptive learning experiences with a view to an ATI approach.

Cloud-Learning: A New System for Inclusive, Simplifying, Networked Learning

Cloud computing is a metaphor that suggests the perspective of being able to be connected anywhere, evoking on the one hand the complex technological infrastructure and suggesting on the other as the physical location of users and resources loses relevance, creating endless connections and endless ways to interact in the network. The aim of this work is to investigate the educational potential arising from the creation of networks that encourage learning through web 2.0. The development of learning networks that generate interconnections between different users can transform schools and universities in communities of practice, characterized by an open and multidimensional learning environment. Cloud learning combines the ability to tap into resources distributed information in context, turning a diverse set of applications on mobile digital devices in a personal learning tool. In particular, the cloud learning appears to offer an effective tool for the development of key competences identified by the European framework.

emotional resonance: a mirror system for emotions of children with autism spectrum disorders

The international scientific community classifies autism as a behavioral syndrome caused by a developmental disorder. Our research is directed to investigate the role of genetic and environmental factors, and their mutual interaction; in particular, we have focused on the study of the brain through neuroimaging techniques to understand the role of the image, both structural and functional, processed in the brain, and then displayed the same in order to analyze and study the relationship between the activity/function of certain brain areas, and the activity of mirror neurons. The data collected by research have allowed to understand various relevant systems approach to the treatment of disorders such as Floor Time. In education, the effectiveness of interventions is measured directed to children with this disorder, and it is also effective among all forms of psycho- education and intervention based on training not only behavioral but including developing motor intentionality and communicative self. doi : 10.5214/ans.0972.7531.200202