Istituto Pedagogico Bolzano Italy: the project How the Italian school system in South Tyrol applies the guidelines of the New District Curricula within the National Ones. For two years, in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, schools will be implementing new curricula for compulsory education (6 to 16 yrs): 17 schools are experiencing and adapting general guidelines, schools timetable and traguardi di competenza (goals) to the new Indicazioni Provinciali. Bolzano Istituto Pedagogico is responsible to train teachers within the new framework with the SOFT project.

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Istituto Pedagogico Bolzano Italy: the project
How the Italian school system in South Tyrol applies the guidelines of the
New District Curricula within the National Ones
PART 1: institutional and procedural framework -8 slides
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2. South Tyrol: where is?
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3 Bolzano
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For two years, in the
Autonomous Province of Bolzano, schools
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compulsory education (6 to 16 yrs): 17
6 schools are experiencing and adapting
general guidelines, schools timetable
and traguardi di competenza (goals) to
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the new Indicazioni Provinciali.
Istituto Pedagogico is responsible to train teachers within the new
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3. Why: aims
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3 1.To help schools, with individual actions, applying the guidelines for
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testing new curricula.
2.To promote South Tyrolean school professional practices aimed at
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achieving high quality standards while respecting diversity of each
individual.
5 3.To draw out all the experiences that have been adopted and share
them through the network.
4.To move the process of renewal in schools where it hasn't started
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yet.
5.To train teachers to new teaching methodologies.
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4. Who: 3 workgroups
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Group 1, designs the Group 2, designs the Group 3, acts in the
institutional framework . project. schools.
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Representatives: Scientific
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Teachers,
Sovrintendenza, committee
Researchers from
School Academy, “Mentors or
Istituto
Istituto friends”*,
Pedagogico,
Pedagogico, Researchers from
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University, Istituto
(expert
Headmasters. Pedagogico.
teachers).
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*Mario Castoldi,
Giancarlo Cerini, Italo
Fiorin
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5. What: macro actions
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Accurate and continuous information in the
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1 schools to raise awareness and move the
processes.
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2 Common seminar meetings and workshops for all
schools on the issues about curricula reform,
teaching, assessment an evaluation.
Projects designed on the schools' needs (with
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3 help of external experts, eg. University of
Bolzano- Music Academy,...)
Disciplinary thematic menus, for areas, and
6 4 cross-curricular topics (workshop activities in
schools with tutors' support from Istituto
Pedagogico).
7 5 Digital literacy for publishing and sharing
experiences on the project wiki.
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6. When: activities 2009/2010
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Objective: to provide schools within May 2010
with the necessary tools to design a school
3 project coherent with the New Guidelines
Sep 2009: 3 workgroups meetings, project design
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Oct 2009: workplatforma opening, first information
Nov 2009: school meetings , collecting informationi, seminar
5 Dec 2009: staff training in the schools, creating micro -nets
Jan 2010: preparing pedagogical menus,
6 ● Feb 2010: start up seminar about evaluation, project revision
Mar 2010: seminar about evaluation, teacher training in the schools
7 Apr 2010: advisers for designing projects in 2010 - 2011
May 2010: schools projects definition, support material
June 2010: project intermediate evalutation and further planning
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7. When: activities 2010/2011
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Objective: Implementation of the New guidelines in
3 every school within an acquainted and aware context
4 ● 2 workshops for the school staff (Teaching, Curriculum)
Pedagogical teacher's training about the menu
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● Supporting documentation
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L2 (German) Training
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Definition of a common glossary
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6 Seminars and information conferences
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● ...More to be defined according to the intermediate evaluation
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8. Critical points: ...at the moment
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Tools and methodologies for assessment and evaluation
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3 Designing a competence/skill oriented didactical approach
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Vertical continuity in the 3rd period (5th grade of primary school and 1st grade of middle
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school)
4 Continuity with kindergarden and high school
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Information technology and citizenship: who is responsible for evaluation?
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The specific discipline goals and objectives and the crosscurricular competences
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5 Transition from a syllabus to the guidelines: loss of references?
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Participated planning with the training agencies of the territory
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New concepts expressed in the Guidelines vs non-coherent didactical choices
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6 Awareness of how much autonomy - a principle of subsidiarity and complementarity
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with the district framework - will allow a personalized offer by the school
Aggregations testing and school timetables that are coherent with the project offered
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SO(F)TENIBILITY
Openness as a framework for teacher training
PART 2: we are the engine and the machine, 14 slides

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Explicit OBJECTIVES
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●Encourage sharing ideas, practices
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●Make known the process
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●Make transparent the process
11 ●Create a working network
●Create a community of practices
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●Document experiences
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●Answer the requests
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Implicit OBJECTIVES
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●Use anthropocentric technologies
6 ●Living with awareness in the web
7 ●Developing digital skills
●Modify the organization of work
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●Explore the potential of Web 2.0
9 ●Develop transferable paths to the class
10 ●Develop connective intelligence
●Extend the learning space
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12. 2 ●
WIKINOMICS – the economy of gift
Don Tapscott ed Anthony D. Williams ,
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“According to Tapscott,
Wikinomics is based on
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Peering, Sharing, and
6 Acting Globally. (...)
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relies on free individual
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together and cooperate
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operation or solve a
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OPENNESS
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CREATE
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DOCUMENT
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USE
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operate, highlighted by a decision-making process recognizing
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(users/producers/contributors), as opposed to a centralized authority
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operational and strategic direction.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openness
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WIKI ­ wikispaces
3 ● “A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of
interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup
language. Wikis are are often used to create collaborative websites, to power
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community websites”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
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15. 2 ● WIKISPACES ­ why
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●Requires low digital skills but high content management skills and
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high skills in recognizing interdependence relationships between
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●Shows the importance of content and not of
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performance/representation
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●No architectural barriers due to the difficulties by using it.
8 ●It is independent from the operative system.
●Accustoms people to work in positive interdepence from one
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another.
10 ●Stimulates collaboration and shared responsibility.
11 ●It is clear trasparente.
●And free for educational use.
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16. 2 ● WIKISPACES ­ what
… and now
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doubleclick!
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● We share the experiences we have started on our own.
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● We download but especially we upload resources.
11 ● We are connected in a structure that connects our thoughts.
● We use the web as a platform for personal learning.
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● We care about the process taking place in the school with all its actors.
13 ● We copy others' ideas, because you also learn by imitation.
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17. On every page we write with a simple editor.
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When we’ve finished editing we click on save WIKISPACES ­ how
and the page is published.
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On every page we can upload On every page we can incorporate
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documents or images from our multimedia elements, video, audio,
computer . polls, etc..
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WIKISPACES ­ when
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September 2009 – September 2011
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September 2009 – September 2011
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Dec. 2009 - Jan. 2010
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February 2010- June 2011
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Activities on wiki http://formazionesoft.wikispaces.com
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First digital courses for school staffs and interested teachers – in the schools
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Schools activities on wiki http://formazionesoft.wikispaces.com
13 Supporting schools, in the schools, for wiki implementation
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WIKISPACES ­ who
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We are the engine: the engine is
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everybody and we are part of the
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schools - district of Bolzano, Italy.
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Istituto Pedagogico offers activities and
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training courses, accepts and develops
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autonomy and creativity.
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In a wiki there are no hierarchical
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positions, and only some are related to
the correct working of the wiki.
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Everyone can develop the collective
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20. 2 ● HELP AND ASSISTANCE – ready to work...
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Laura Portesi, director of IPI Bolzano, Italy laura.portesi@scuola.alto-adige.it
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Alessandro Garavelli, project manager alessandro.garavelli@scuola.alto-adige.it
8 ● Luisanna Fiorini, communication editor luisanna.fiorini@scuola.alto-adige.it
Emanuela Atz, translation and project implementation emanuela.atz@scuola.alto-adige.it
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ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP – freedom is participation
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http://formazionesoft.wikispaces.com
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Double click on SOFT
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Sviluppo
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Formativo
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Territoriale
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CREDITS
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Picture pg 2 http://www.titticimmino.com/wp-content/uploads/image/generazione%20c_001.jpg
Picture pg 3 http://www.martybucella.com/edtoons.html
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Picture pg 4 http://api.ning.com/files/connectivism.jpg
Picture pg 5 revisited http://blogs.ubc.ca/dean/files/2009/02/open_education1.jpg
Picture pg 7 revisited http://www.iskra.coop/immagini/Collaborare03.jpg
5 ● Picture pg 8 revisited http://www.martybucella.com/comptoons.html
Picture pg 11 http://www.orianit.edu-negev.gov.il/
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HANDMADE GUARANTEED
OpenOffice.org on Linux Debian
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for Istituto Pedagogico di Bolzano, translation Emanuela Atz
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SOFT PROJECT YEAR2010
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