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Project form
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PROJECT TITLE |
REAL
CHILDREN LEARN IN VIRTUAL WORLDS
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Short Summary |
The work is
original in its kind because it involves children interacting in
tri-dimensional chat-lines with adults, who are willing to
"virtually" realize – with 3D constructions – the children’s
desires.
The following is a research work, since adults are engaged in
verifying the impact of new communication technologies in
children, taking note of behaviour, hypotheses, graphic
realizations, as well as of the memory itself of such
experience. A mixed community is thereby created, involving:
teachers, parents, children, and people not directly related to
the school world. Communication occurs via chat, e-mail and
telephone, giving rise to a strong social interaction.
This new
solution of virtual community for the (3-5 years old) child has
a strong social-educational and pedagogic impact. We believe
that this virtual community is well suited for reflections on
experience and on the analysis of the behaviour resulting from
it.
New solutions for virtual (and real) communities - Internet for
the child "What is real, what is virtual and what do we mean
as image of something which is real?" Philosophers
and scientists have long debated it, and we do not pretend to
answer this question: we would only like, with the opportunity
we have, to tell you how school-children aged three, four and
five are working on these questions, and how they are
interacting with a tri-dimensional chat: Active Worlds |
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RESOURCES |
Internal (from your school) |
External (outside your school) |
Costs |
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Human |
L’attività si è svolta senza oneri per la
scuola; le spese sono state sostenute solo dall’ins.
sperimentatrice |
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Facilities (rooms,
labs, etc) |
Principalmente la classe |
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Equipment
(PC, videorecorder, cameras...) |
Due computer nella classe e le ITC personali
dell’ins.sperimentatrice (per le attività svolte a casa) * |
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Funds |
NESSUNO |
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Other |
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Objectives |
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Overall objectives |
·
compare methodologies;
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create conscious and active
children-children and adults-children interaction;
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encourage the creativity and
the development of an interactive community.
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Specific objectives |
 | to collect,
to elaborate and to interpret data; |
| to describe
situations, problems and to devise solutions; |
| to develop
the skills to communicate intentionally and creatively;
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| to present to
the others the results paths. |
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Study skills |
Orientamento
spaziale
Verbalizzazione
Logica
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Social skills |
Cooperazione
Co-decisione |
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Subjects involved |
Bambini e bambine di 3-4-5 anni; docenti di
altre scuole; genitori; amici di chat |
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PROJECT
DESCRIPTION |
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Duration: |
School year:
From: 1997 To: nowdays |
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Work has been
done
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in the class
/ at home
I lavori
sono stati fatti sia a casa (es. attivita’ di preparazione, chat
e documentazione on line) che a scuola (chat) |
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Short
description of how the Project has been carried out |
From little everyday objects and games to the mystery of the big
object and the computer game.
This project provides a soft approach, designed for children,
taking account of their need to touch and handle in order to
understand.
A simple path towards the concepts of "symbol" and "virtual
reality"
so that what appears on the screen
can be treated as something tangible
- to be copied, cut out, stuck on and moved around....
just like what children enjoy doing with objects.
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USE OF
TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS
Short description of how technological tools have been used |
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Technological tools
(videocamera/camera/digital
camera/computer/Internet/scanner/printer) |
· Pentium 200
Computer
· ADSL
· Explorer browser
· Eudora electronic mail system
· Scanner HP
· Laser and inkjet printers
· Digital camera
· TV
· Video projector
· Video tapes
· Educational CD
· Encyclopaedia (Multimedia and printed)
· Tape recorder
· Audio cassettes
· Word 98
for Web-page creation and production of letters to be sent as e-mail
attachments
Graphics
Techniques:
· Water color
· Alcohol color
· Pencil color
· Wax color
· Paint |
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Users
(teachers/children/experts): |
Ins. sperimentatrice: Linda Giannini
Bambini/e dei diversi anni scolastici |
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Where
(at home/at school): |
A casa (per quanto riguarda il solo lavoro
del docente)
A scuola (per tutte le interazioni e per gli
interventi docente-bambini – bambini/e-bambini/e |
How
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Come da documentazione on line
Vedi:
http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/virtual_en/aw.htm
http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/aw_en/index.htm
http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/nir99.html
http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/99_00_virtual.htm
http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/narnia_aw.htm |
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EVALUATION |
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Evaluation worksheets of operative objectives |
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Feedback from students |
Good |
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Feedback from
parents |
Good |
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Feedback from
teachers |
Good |
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Other |
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I
allow to publish the above information on the ECOLE website (www.ecolenet.nl)
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