ICT/Multimedia in Italy

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ICT/Multimedia in Italy

• The national project for the development of ICT
  in schools

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ICT/Multimedia in Italy

• The three-year national project (1997-2000) was
  promoted by the Ministry of Education
• aims to improve ICT competencies in both
  teachers and students so as to improve
  teaching/learning methodologies and praxis
• funds to the schools, directly

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ICT/Multimedia in Italy

• Two subprojects
• 1A for schools without previous experience in
  ICT and poor equipment
• funds to buy/improve hardware and organise
  in-service training for teachers
• each school 6.000 Euro 1550 for training

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ICT/Multimedia in Italy

• Two subprojects
• 1B for more experienced schools
• funds to develop multimedia laboratory
• each school 21.700 Euro
• usually schools first have taken part in the A1
  project and then in the B1.

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ICT/Multimedia in Italy
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ICT/Multimedia in Italy

• yet...

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ICT/Multimedia in Italy

• From a recent survey on upper secondary school
  teachers by IARD
• 83 of teachers work in schoosl equipped with an
  Internet connection
• 1 out of 10 use the Internet connection regularly

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ICT/Multimedia in Italy

• 1 out of 4 connect to the Internet every now and
  then
• the others never!