Innovating, designing, experimenting: proposals and paths. On 2 November the study conference in Bologna is online
What will school be like after the health emergency? What role can it play after the difficulties encountered during the pandemic? And how much does the physical space affect the places of learning?
To answer these questions, the Directorate-General for school systems, the evaluation and internationalization of the national education system of the Ministry of Education and the Golinelli Foundation, within the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by both parties, organize the Study conference “The school: what future after the pandemic. Innovating, designing, experimenting: proposals and paths ”to be held on November 2nd, from 9.00 to 13.30, in Bologna and online.
These months of pandemic have put the importance of school back at the center of the public debate - understood as a place for training, meeting, socialization - and the role of knowledge as the ability to interpret and possess keys to reading, general principles around which - organize knowledge, training, education, information. Starting from this scenario, leading figures from the world of culture and education will discuss a new school model, addressing the issue from different points of view, from new learning paradigms to school structures and architecture, from necessary strengthening of STEAM disciplines to the strategic role of teachers, to that of new technologies in support of teaching activities.
All this with the aim of promoting reflection on the crucial role that schools can play, even starting from what happened in an emergency, in preparing the younger generations even better for the sometimes unpredictable challenges of the future.
The new school, in addition to enhancing the potential of the most avant-garde digital technologies, will have to propose new learning paradigms with a continuous updating path for teachers that includes proposals for didactic and methodological innovation.
The Conference will also be an opportunity to present to the public the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Ministry of Education and the Golinelli Foundation, on didactic innovation, training, research, experimentation and dissemination of scientific and technological culture in schools, for the society of knowledge.
Two new training courses for teachers will also be presented, focusing on the enhancement of STEAM subjects and their integration and interdisciplinarity: “The Design of Scientific Experience” to develop practical scientific research experiences in schools; “Community of Inquiry: from the science laboratory to philosophical practices” to explore the interconnections between philosophical and scientific knowledge with the aim of promoting an interdisciplinary approach to teaching.
The study conference can be followed on the YouTube channel, with free access via the address https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIx67YJOGU4