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Review of the Italian Strategy for Digital Schools

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  • Francesco Avvisati

    (OECD)

  • Sara Hennessy

    (University of Cambridge)

  • Robert B. Kozma
  • Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin

    (OECD)

Abstract

The Italian Ministry of Education launched in 2007 a National Plan for Digital Schools (Piano Nazionale Scuola Digitale) to mainstream Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Italian classrooms and use technology as a catalyser of innovation in Italian education, hopefully conducing to new teaching practices, new models of school organisation, new products and tools to support quality teaching. The Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research asked the OECD to review its Plan from an international perspective and to suggest improvements. The small budget of the Plan has limited the effectiveness of its diverse initiatives. In its current design, a significant rise of the budget of the plan through public or private sources is a necessary condition for its success. Given current budgetary constraints, a significant budget increase may be difficult, and the report proposes to revise some features of the Plan in order to achieve two objectives: 1) speed up the uptake of ICT in Italian schools and classrooms; 2) create an Innovation Laboratory Network of test bed schools piloting and inventing new pedagogic and organisational practices to improve Italian education, by refocusing the innovation projects on the school 2.0 (scuol@ 2.0) initiative. En Italie, le Ministère de l’Éducation a initié en 2007 un Plan National pour l’École Numérique (Piano Nazionale Scuola Digitale), avec comme objectifs de diffuser les technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) dans les classes d’école italiennes et d’utiliser la technologie comme un catalyseur d’innovation dans l’éducation italienne, conduisant à l’adoption de nouvelles pratiques pédagogiques, de nouveaux modèles d’organisation scolaire, ainsi qu’au développement de nouveaux produits et outils pour soutenir un enseignement de qualité. Le Ministère italien de l’Éducation, des Universités et de la Recherche a demandé à l’OCDE d’examiner son Plan dans une perspective internationale et de faire des suggestions pour son amélioration. Le budget modeste du Plan a limité l’efficacité de ses diverses initiatives. Dans son design actuel, une augmentation significative de son budget, à travers des sources publiques ou privées, est une condition nécessaire à son succès. Étant donné les contraintes budgétaires actuelles, une augmentation importante du budget peut paraître difficile, et le rapport propose de réviser certains aspects du Plan afin d’atteindre deux objectifs : 1) accélérer l’adoption des TIC dans les écoles et salles de classe italiennes ; 2) créer un Laboratoire d’Innovation en Réseau constitué d’écoles expérimentales qui pilotent et inventent de nouvelles pratiques pédagogiques et organisationnelles pour améliorer l’éducation italienne, en recentrant les projets d’innovation du Plan sur son initiative école 2.0 (scuol@ 2.0).

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  • Francesco Avvisati & Sara Hennessy & Robert B. Kozma & Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, 2013. "Review of the Italian Strategy for Digital Schools," OECD Education Working Papers 90, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:eduaab:90-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5k487ntdbr44-en
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