5 posts tagged with "digital education"

The "Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance" is an international alliance for exchange and cooperation of higher education institutions, to address digital education challenges and to implement practical policies in local communities and around the world. It is a small and diverse group of 17 world-leading universities and 3 online education platforms from across 14 countries in all 6 continents and speaks 10 different languages, and was initiated by Tsinghua University in 2020.

On December 14-16, the Global MOOC Alliance organized its annual conference, hosted by Politecnico di Milano, under the theme Reconstruction of Future Universities and Education Driven by Artificial Intelligence. On December 15, during the Plenary Session, Fulvio Corno gave a short keynote speech about Students’ Digital Twins for open exploration of AI features, where he outlined a possible strategy for a Technical University such as Politecnico di Torino, to leverage their skills and resources to tackle the continuous evolution of AI tools and solutions, in order to provide innovative services to the education community, by elaborating a concept of an AI Playground.

Critical Making is a newly approved Erasmus+ Forward Looking Project, that will start on the 1st of January, 2024. In preparation for the project start, some partners (Politecnico di Torino, the Links Foundation and the Pädagogische Hochschule Weingarten) organized a hands-on activity, open to teachers of Politecnico di Torino and other collaborators of the TLlab.

On December 7th, teachers gathered in the nice "Palazzina TLlab", the key space for all activities of the Teaching and Language Lab, and were guided by Flavio Renga and Chiara Ciociola (Links Foundation) in the analysis of 4 different scenarios that may contain scientifically inaccurate (or outright wrong) information. In a 3-step process, teachers were asked to identify the elements of "critical thinking", "making" and "disinformation" in one of the scenarios, to share their ideas in a group and synthesize them, and finally to start working on a possible definition for 'critical making' by reshuffling the groups and comparing ideas and insights. The 2-hour activity went out in a breeze, and the results presented by the moderators were intriguing and promising, and will be used as a starting point for the project activities.

Lo sviluppo del pensiero critico (Critical Thinking) è uno degli obiettivi fondamentali della formazione a tutti i livelli, ma anche un tema rilevante a livello sociale, per il contrasto alle fake news, specialmente in ambito STEM.

Il Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica ed il Teaching and Language Lab, in collaborazione con la Fondazione Links e con la Pädagogische Hochschule Weingarten, organizza un workshop collaborativo per esplorare le possibilità educative, basate soprattutto su metodiche sperimentali ed esperienziali, e per immaginare insieme attività didattiche che aiutino la comprensione e il contrasto delle fake news in campo scientifico e tecnologico.

I risultati del workshop saranno resi accessibili a tutta la comunità accademica e forniranno un importante input per il progetto Erasmus+ "Critical Making" a cui partecipa il Politecnico di Torino (Dipartimento DAUIN e TLlab) partecipa.

All’interno della Milano Digital Week, il Politecnico di Milano realizza AI_EDU CAMP: un palinsesto articolato di workshop, talk, eventi performativi per riflettere in modo approfondito sul futuro della didattica con l’AI e preparare insegnanti, formatori e studenti ad un suo utilizzo efficace e sostenibile.

Le iniziative sono progettate e gestite da METID “Innovation Teaching and Learning” e Scuola del Design del Politecnico di Milano e il Collettivo AAA (alumni Polimi).

The 2023 edition of the Italian Symposium on Digital Education (ISYDE), organized by the Italian e-Learning Society (SIe-L), is planned in Reggio Emilia (Italy) on September 13-15. From the e-Lite group, Fulvio will participate in the special plenary session Blending strategies in universities: methods, technologies and policies, that focuses on the adoption of blending learning technologies on some major Italian universities.