1. FOR and Hi-Tech

2. ANSAS National Agency for the Support of School Authonomy (formerly INDIRE) based in Florence

3. ANSAS DOCUMENTATION TRAINING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATION INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

4. PuntoEdu More than 650.000 teachers involved in the training Processi di Innovazione per lInglese e lInformatica nella formazione della scuola primaria (DM 61) Processi di Innovazione per lInglese e lInformatica nella formazione della scuola primaria (DM 61) 2005 2001 2003 2004 Corso Concorso Dirigenti Scolastici For TIC Riforma (DLgs 59) Europa ATA Since 2001 the Agency has been piloting blended-learning courses for school 2008 176.609 1.850 200.677 62.000 105.103 161.000 DiGiscuola OCSE Neoassunti 41.000 12.000 3.500

5. Result of monitoring of trainees interpretation of teachers role PuntoEdu features consultation of the materials relationship with the tutor exchanging ideas with colleagues Wishes and needs

6. EDEN – 7 th Open classroom Conference Porto 2009 PuntoEdu Limits TIME wish continue on course activities Boundaries set by the structure of thematic course needs continuity community

7. network knowledge as a schema network: continuous retroactive feedback between subject and environment; this feedback changes and enriches the subject as well as the environment community the learning process is possible by virtue of the participation to the community Our learning environment must be continuously modified by learners themselves and the learners community is the source both of the content as well as the learning possibility TWO INTERESTING METAPHORS

8. REQUEST continuity community continuity community Participants set the arguments of the collaborative activities teachers framework Our mission: provide an answer

9. technology for teaching improvement of their own teaching subjects Thematic Areas News Collaborative activities TV section Repository Learning Objects FOR answer Teachers expectations

10. relationship 2005 For TIC FOR HI-TECH MIUR Protocol MIUR Protocol 20092010

11. EDEN – 7 th Open classroom Conference Porto 2009 Thematic Areas Teaching Subject Units paths on specific arguments General part on the subjects since this October a direct link to TAO hqs been included for some thematic areas

12. Hi-tech Montelupo Testing a technological setting oriented towards a collaborative didactic approach Analyse the evolution of the classs social structure and students' learning processes

13. WHO? ANSAS Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dellAutonomia Scolastica Intel Italia Microsoft Italia s.r.l SMART Technologies Fondazione ASPHI onlus lstituto Comprensivo Baccio da Montelupo Dipartimento di Scienze umane per la Formazione Riccardo Massa, Milano Bicocca In collaboration whith: Scientific board

14. IC Baccio da Montelupo (Montelupo Fiorentino - FI) The school is participating to Marinando Project and to IWB Project WHERE? Three primary school classes 3A - 22 pupils 3B - 17 pupils 4A - 25 pupils

15. SMART Table Interactive Withe Board (IWB) SMART Board One2one computing: Intel ClassMate Netbook SMART Classroom Suite Windows 7 MS Office New digital learning/teaching environment: wireless SMART Slate WHAT?

16. Introduction of the new tools and familiarization Definition of didactic progragram in the new environment Coaching, observation EXperimentation observation WHEN? 2010 June - September 2010 October - December 2011 January - June 2010 September

17. Participated observation by the researchers Systematic observations recording classs activities Thematic observation Interviews and other tools HOW? Observation of the proces whith a qualitative aproach

18. WHY? To give an an answer to 3 basic question: Can the digital learning environment be useful in order to form a deeper relationship among students and among students and teachers? Can a digital learning environment modify a teaching/learning model? Can these changes influence the quality of students' skills and knowledge?

19. More than the medidium itself, it is the social context and use of a medium that determin the medium's impact on children's way of thinking Patricia Greenfield Mind and media, 1984

20. Thank you for you attention On FOR: m.distasio@indire.itm.distasio@indire.it On Hi-Tech: l.tosi@indire.it All the photogray of the lstituto Comprensivo Baccio da Montelupo are by Pino Moscato (ANSAS' researcher)