Teaching and learning through the screen: the limitations and potential of Distance Learning (DAD)

Journal title CADMO
Author/s Cinzia Angelini, Alberto Fornasari
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/1
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 50-61 File size 197 KB
DOI 10.3280/CAD2023-001005
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In the Council Recommendation on key competences for lifelong learn- ing (2018), the European Council emphasised the importance of achieving basic skills (literacy, numeracy, digital skills) as a key for the development of the learning to learn competence in a lifelong perspective. Working from this assumption, this paper aims to focus on a fundamental basic skill, handwrit- ing, which has been examined in the manuscripts produced by two groups of 3rd graders before and after the distance learning occasioned by the Cov- id-19 pandemic. The results show that distance learning has had a negative impact on the development and learning of handwriting. This is mainly due to the absence of a reliable model for designing teaching in online learning environments. However, rather than merely labelling the distance learning experience as negative, this article aims to show that there can be meaning- ful opportunities, and for different school graders, if the blended learning paradigm is correctly intended and applied.

Keywords: learning, teaching, handwriting, distance learning, school.

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Cinzia Angelini, Alberto Fornasari, Insegnare e imparare attraverso lo schermo: limiti e potenzialità della DAD in "CADMO" 1/2023, pp 50-61, DOI: 10.3280/CAD2023-001005