As part of the PCTO – Percorsi per le competenze trasversali e per l’orientamento promoted by the Ministry of Education (in the field School-Work Alternation), last school year (2022/2023), a project entitled: “Online/Onlife – Diritti in Internet” was experimented between EDI Onlus, a social cooperative born as a Save the Children spin-off to work as an operational partner in local education services and to develop innovative training according to the methodology of the rights approach and positive education, and Liceo F. D’Ovidio located in Larino, a town near Termoli on the Adriatic Sea in the Molise Region. 14 three-year students were reached from November to May 2023, for 30 hours. All the activities were implemented online and in face to face “laboratories” thanks to the socio – constructivist approach where the construction of knowledge takes place within the socio-cultural context in which the individual acts and thanks to the rights approach where each participant is put at the centre of learning through cooperation, collaboration (from different points of view such as cognitive, emotional, relational), in order to increase student involvement through the civic sense, the interest in community (Laffi,2014) and the concept of (digital) citizenship (Marshall,1950;Vuorikari,2022;COE,2023) for present and for future. Workshops were co-conducted with the facilitator, involving students in interactive activities through the use of technological devices, videos, specific material, slides where each of them touched upon the issue of “being a citizen in a digital way”. Especially in this project was used, as crucial tool, the Convention on the Rights of the Child: the socio-relational map of the all the educational activities regarding citizenship and active participation. Among the project’s goals: to promote the digital citizenship through the active socio-pedagogical approach and to strengthen the sense of responsibility of young net-users (in a positive and participative key); to reflect on the “digital skills”, on the privacy and online safety through the conscious use of new digital media and social networks, on the online relationships between opportunities and risks (cyberbullying; sexting; revenge porn; online reputation; online violence), on the Democracy and on the social inclusion/exclusion. In this sense, the transformative intervention of reality from a sociological integrated point of view on these issues (Mills,1959) allowed not only to actively reflect on digital-related social phenomena between risks and opportunities, but also to make children protagonists by making them experience digital citizenship. Also, an ex ante, in itinere and ex post evaluation was conducted throughout the course, with the last meeting summarising what the students had done over the months. This experience could be one of that educational intervention focused on the social and civic participation to the “onlife” dimension (Floridi,2015) and one of tools capable to contain traditional, new social inequalities and social exclusions. Especially in the “inner areas” such as those of Molise Region.
Activating Processes of Youth Participation and (digital) Citizenship.The Online/Onlife Project Diritti in Internet
Mariangela D'Ambrosio
Primo
2024-01-01
Abstract
As part of the PCTO – Percorsi per le competenze trasversali e per l’orientamento promoted by the Ministry of Education (in the field School-Work Alternation), last school year (2022/2023), a project entitled: “Online/Onlife – Diritti in Internet” was experimented between EDI Onlus, a social cooperative born as a Save the Children spin-off to work as an operational partner in local education services and to develop innovative training according to the methodology of the rights approach and positive education, and Liceo F. D’Ovidio located in Larino, a town near Termoli on the Adriatic Sea in the Molise Region. 14 three-year students were reached from November to May 2023, for 30 hours. All the activities were implemented online and in face to face “laboratories” thanks to the socio – constructivist approach where the construction of knowledge takes place within the socio-cultural context in which the individual acts and thanks to the rights approach where each participant is put at the centre of learning through cooperation, collaboration (from different points of view such as cognitive, emotional, relational), in order to increase student involvement through the civic sense, the interest in community (Laffi,2014) and the concept of (digital) citizenship (Marshall,1950;Vuorikari,2022;COE,2023) for present and for future. Workshops were co-conducted with the facilitator, involving students in interactive activities through the use of technological devices, videos, specific material, slides where each of them touched upon the issue of “being a citizen in a digital way”. Especially in this project was used, as crucial tool, the Convention on the Rights of the Child: the socio-relational map of the all the educational activities regarding citizenship and active participation. Among the project’s goals: to promote the digital citizenship through the active socio-pedagogical approach and to strengthen the sense of responsibility of young net-users (in a positive and participative key); to reflect on the “digital skills”, on the privacy and online safety through the conscious use of new digital media and social networks, on the online relationships between opportunities and risks (cyberbullying; sexting; revenge porn; online reputation; online violence), on the Democracy and on the social inclusion/exclusion. In this sense, the transformative intervention of reality from a sociological integrated point of view on these issues (Mills,1959) allowed not only to actively reflect on digital-related social phenomena between risks and opportunities, but also to make children protagonists by making them experience digital citizenship. Also, an ex ante, in itinere and ex post evaluation was conducted throughout the course, with the last meeting summarising what the students had done over the months. This experience could be one of that educational intervention focused on the social and civic participation to the “onlife” dimension (Floridi,2015) and one of tools capable to contain traditional, new social inequalities and social exclusions. Especially in the “inner areas” such as those of Molise Region.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
