Fabio Bocci

Educate to Relationships through Relationships: The Role of Social and Prosocial Abilities in the Construction of Collaborative and Inclusive Educational Communities

Abstract The Youth Report 2014 recognizes the possibility to take positive action towards the others as an element that contributes to let young people achieve a sense of happiness. Despite this, we can observe in schools the presence of individualistic and competitive educational models affirming the predominance of fixed cognitive standards. That can bring to a situation of marginalization of those who are hegemonically located outside of a pre-established definition of norm. Considering these assumptions, the authors have developed an inclusive and prosocial teaching model, based on the Cooperative Learning approach, aimed to encourage prosocial skills among students. The research, that used qualiquantitative data, has involved a sample of 42 students and 12 teachers of the Middle School. The comparison between pre and post test highlights a higher increase in helping dimension and in the subsample of males students, joint to general improvements within teaching-learning processes and relationships.

The Apps as tools for learning to read and write. A Review

Reading is still an open issue for the Italian educational system (and not only for the Italian one). The reasons are concerning both its learning processes and the educational emergency phenomenon of non-readers . The increasing diffusion of ICT is acting as an engine to face this issue both in school and in other educational agencies. In fact, ICT are activating evidence-based procedures and strategies which are effective and easy to be used. In particular, the recent development of mobile has opened the way for using Application (App) for teaching, with awesome results. In the present paper, the authors propose a literature review that aims to highlight two important aspects. Firstly, the clarification of the problem and secondly, the individuation of the most advantageous Apps in order to promote the literacy even from an inclusive perspective. Le App come strumenti per l’apprendimento della letto-scrittura. Una rassegna Quella della lettura continua a essere una questione aperta per il sistema formativo italiano (e non solo), sia per quel che concerne i processi di apprendimento che la sottendono sia per quel che riguarda l’emergenza educativa inerente il fenomeno dei “non lettori”. La crescente diffusione delle TIC sta agendo come propulsore per affrontare a scuola come nelle altre agenzie educative questo problema, attivando procedure e strategie che risultano efficaci (sul piano dell’evidenza scientifica) e di semplice adozione. In modo particolare il recente sviluppo del mobile ha aperto la strada all’utilizzo di Applicazioni (App) nella didattica, con risultati a dir poco sorprendenti. Nel presente contributo gli autori propongono una rassegna della letteratura finalizzata a mettere in evidenza da un lato i termini del problema e dell’altro quali App sono oggi ritenute maggiormente vantaggiose per favorire l’apprendimento della letto-scrittura anche in ottica inclusiva.