Abstract:

The National Operational Program (PON) "For the School - Skills and Environments for Learning" aims at contributing to the design and implementation of a high quality, fair, and inclusive education system.

The purpose of PON includes the strengthening of technological equipment and learning environments available to schools, in order to increase the technological and scientific literacy of students.

This paper intends to provide a comprehensive analysis of innovative didactic practices in the digital environment; from this standpoint, all the Advices launched by the MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research) for the realization of digital environments, innovative laboratories, and the expansion of the LAN/WLAN network were taken into consideration.

Educating people in a laboratory space and integrating digital tools in the classroom implies the design of an active and innovative teaching approach: by embracing a logic of flexibility and modularity of environments, the implementation of innovative methodologies fosters social inclusion, interaction, as well as media education with the media. This allows students to develop useful mechanisms to consciously deal with their social and professional life, by developing both basic and transversal skills.

The main objective is to understand whether the regions showing the highest educational poverty index are likely to submit more applications for technological innovation projects, thus outlining a profile of educational institutions reporting greater technological poverty.

This study may provide two main implications: on the one hand, it could support the proper allocation of financial resources towards the geographical and social areas at greater risk of technological poverty; on the other, it could pave the way for the definition of a “technological enrichment” need for disadvantaged territories.

Finally, in a time of emergency related to CoViD-19, the role of technologies to deliver distance teaching is stressed. More specifically, the development of an e-teaching model based on co-creation and co-production is emphasized as a sustainable way to craft a learning ecosystem.

Keywords:

Educational poverty, technological poverty, innovation, digital school.