Rome, 4-5 December 2008

Giovanni Biondi, EUN Chairman

Are ICT introduced Are ICT introduced in schools?in schools?

The first EUN meeting took place in Brussels

in 1998 and the situation was this:

• TV was the dominant entertainment technology

• There was a limited use of PCs in schools. In American schools, where the use of PCs was more widespread(1 pc every 10 students), the PC was used at least once a week but only in 6% of the cases

• The use of mobile phones was not very common amongst young people

The beginnings

Source: La vita quotidiana di bambini e ragazzi, Indagine ISTAT (2008)

In the period 2000 - 2008 In the period 2000 - 2008

the % of children and

young people (3-17)

who use a PCPC rises from

41.7% to 59.8%59.8%

What has happened over the last ten years

InternetInternet usage rate moves from 28.5% in 2000 to 66.9%66.9% in 2008

In the same period the use of mobile phones mobile phones increases amongst young people:

the percentage has increased from 55,6% to 92% 92%

(with the largest increase to be found amongst the younger ones)

Fonte: La vita quotidiana di bambini e ragazzi, Indagine ISTAT (2008)

What has happened over the last ten years

The whole scenario has changed

there are now numerous technological devicesavailable to the general public

and there are new uses for traditional devices

What has happened over the last ten years

For example, mobile phones mobile phones are not used

simply to phone but also for :

1. sending/receiving messages (81,3%81,3%)

2. playing games (above 50%above 50%)

3. Keeping a telephone directory (42,7%42,7% )

Source: La vita quotidiana di bambini e ragazzi, Indagine ISTAT (2008)

What has happened over the last ten years

4. taking and sending photos (38,8%38,8%). This function is at the seventh place, followed by:

5. shooting, sending and receiving videos (15,2%15,2%), recording conversations (10,3%10,3%), using the diary (11,2%11,2%), connecting to the internet (4,2%4,2%)

What has happened over the last ten years

Source: La vita quotidiana di bambini e ragazzi, Indagine ISTAT (2008)

• Developments of computer labs and huge investments for

making hardware widely available• Convinction that ICT in schools equals having PCs• Low level of interest in digital contents that still in

the second half of the 90s are considered of low quality• Use of the PC as a device, mainly for word

processing

Past trends

• A technological scenario characterized by a plurality of tools and their necessary integration

• Transition from web 1.0web 1.0 to webweb 2.02.0, the social net

• Dismissal of the e-learning platforms inspired by transmissive model in favour of Knowledge Management and Learning Environment models based on activities

Future trends

• LOLO characterized by the SCORM standards

• RepositoriesRepositories• Copyright and the relationship between

commercial and free content free content produced by teachers (for example, digital assets and LO)

Development of new digital content

Development of new digital content

ICT migrates ICT migrates FROMFROM the computer labs the computer labs

INTOINTO the classrooms with the classrooms with:

• Interactive Whiteboards• New organisation of teaching

(schools without classes, integration of different media and books, collaboration among schools as in e-Twinning)

• ECDL gives place to the New Digital Skills

The present

These are the Eminent themes

and these are the priorities for

the EUN work-programme!

The Future in already on!

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