LIBRI DI MAILA PENTUCCI

In this paper, we present an example of a Digital Learning Ecosystem, set up during the first period of the pandemic emergency and then remodelled and re-proposed for hybrid didactics provided afterwards, involving five pedagogical-didactic courses of two universities in central Italy. The central device in this Ecosystem was recursive feedback, which in contexts of didactics mediated by screens can anyhow activate discursive, adaptive, interactive and reflexive dynamics. In order to understand if these aims were pursued, we administered an open-ended questionnaire to 274 students, which was not intended to measure their enjoyment of the method and the environment, but their perceptions regarding the effectiveness of the system on their learning processes, not only at a cognitive level, but also on at an interpersonal and intrapersonal level. The analysis was conducted according to the Structural Topic Model, which allowed us to re-read the responses as a unique corpus of reflective writings, generated by the students after the input provided by the assigned task.

In order to make feedback become a process leading didactic practises it is necessary to overcome the static and single-directional vision linked to providing and receiving feedback and to go towards an interactive and generative feedback, foreseeing some peer feedback moments, some self-evaluation and self- regulation. In this paper we would like to describe a didactic path focused on feedback, activated in two University courses in different Universities with the following aims: activating subsequent feedback spirals (Carless, 2019), first between Professor and students, then between peers, to get to a self-awareness interior process, that is an incorporation of reflexivity on one’s own practices. Promoting feedback literacy (Carless & Boud, 2018) in the student through the experimentation in the practice. In particular, we will account for a peer feedback process realised in the following steps: a) the group production of a learning design; b) the peer review of the colleagues’ designs, through the "Ladder of Feedback" protocol, with a following sharing of the reviews; c) the subsequent reflection on the activated processes through a questionnaire on the students’ perceptions. The analysis of those productions enables us to reflect upon the sense of effectiveness granted to the peer feedback, on the differences between the Professor’s and the peer feedbacks, on the comprehension of the role of the peer feedback within the training process.

Il volume indaga la pianificazione dell’azione didattica entro contesti in cui dialogano e interagiscono attivamente saperi disciplinari e saperi pratici. Il testo si avvale delle pratiche, delle voci e delle riflessioni di docenti e studenti, esplicitate e condivise in percorsi di ricerca e formazione iniziale e in servizio. Dalla sistematizzazione delle produzioni dei docenti emergono le logiche sistemiche con cui muoversi nella macro e nella microprogettazione, e le proposte operative per una pianificazione flessibile, generativa, sostenibile, visibile e co-progettata con gli studenti.

Il volume vuole descrivere la natura poliedrica delle esperienze di animazione digitale nella didattica e cogliere gli elementi di contatto tra i diversi percorsi sperimentati. Il testo si rivolge pertanto a studiosi e ricercatori nell’ambito della media education, interessati a una lettura complessiva dei possibili campi di applicazione, ma anche a insegnanti, educatori e pedagogisti particolarmente attenti agli aspetti educativo-didattici dell’animazione digitale.

In the didactic action, the organized forms are recursive in the practices of both experienced teachers and pre-service training students; also its meanings are quite similar. According to the studies on Professional Didactics, these recursions are useful for the practice analysis and for promoting an investigative attitude in the teacher as a reflective professional. This paper will try to highlight which pedagogical formats are in some lessons, designed both by teachers and by pre-service traning students. In particular, the following aspects will be analized: 1) the meanings assigned to these formats by those involved in the research; 2) the reasons for their use; 3) the level of awareness of their involvement in the action (both in terms of design and practice). A first survey, carried out through evidences' analysis and co-explication, shows both the teacher enters the community with schemes of action that are already structured, and how the community knowledge influences both the consolidation of didactic formats consolidation and the organizers of the didactic action.

The complexity of the class context changes knowledge that, today, experiments more and more the ambiguity between global and local. Knowledge seems to aim at the construction of nets of modal meanings. Even the posture of teachers and students change and feedback is one of the aspects that can mostly affect learning by fostering the acceptance of reciprocal worlds present in the class context. In this direction, also feedback seems to change and from an informative structure, as proposed by Gagné, feedback is acquiring a generative rationale, that is, a structure able to open different interpretative perspectives. In the present contribution modalities of feedback collection are described such as Mentimeter.com and Google.com forms being used in different courses at the department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism at the University of Macerata. Those tools were used to valorise the students’ informal and non formal knowledge and to define personalized trajectories. Feedback surely was the tool able to bridge the students’ and teachers’ experience and knowledge towards the construction of a net of meanings built in context.