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Il Cielo in una Stanza
2021
Il testo, nato nell'ambito del progetto "Noi come voi, mission impossible?" patrocinato dall'Università degli Studi di Palermo, è un racconto illustrato concepito come una guida per accompagnare bambini e ragazzi nella visita dei tesori artistici della città. Al centro del percorso è la "stanza delle meraviglie", che è stata recentemente scoperta in un edificio ubicato fra il Palazzo dei Normanni e il mercato di Ballarò." La scommessa", scrive Giuseppe Zanniello, "è stata quella di ritenere che i bambini delle scuole primarie potessero migliorare la propria autostima riflettendo sui tesori artistici che sono fisicamente presenti accanto alla loro scuola e alle loro abitazioni, ma ai quali e…
Recuperare la sostenibilità dell’educazione attraverso l’agire laboratoriale
2022
Temi riguardanti l’ecologia e le scienze ambientali sono da sempre inseriti nella programmazione didattica delle diverse discipline di tutti gli ordini di scuola. L’emergenza pandemica da Covid-19, che ha richiesto un adeguamento degli spazi alle necessità di distanziamento, la riformulazione degli ambienti abitativi, lavorativi e scolastici, la riorganizzazione delle attività educative e formative, ha riportato alla luce l’evidente necessità di un complesso ridisegno degli spazi e delle abitudini, ma soprattutto ha fatto sviluppare una nuova coscienza verso il mondo che ci circonda e dell’opportunità di salvaguardarlo. L’articolo propone una riflessione metodologica sull’Educazione alla so…
Nuovi modelli di scuola nel XXI secolo: la proposta dell’educazione differenziata per le ragazze e per i ragazzi.
2009
A PROJECT-POSED APPROACH TO REAL BODY DYNAMICS: THE ROLE OF CONSTRAINTS IN ELASTIC WAVE PROPAGATION
2010
In this paper we present some results of a project-posed approach to the teaching of mechanical wave propagation focused on observations and measurements of wave properties in solids and on modelling of these properties by using different simulation tools. In particular, the propagation speed of sound waves in metallic rods is studied by using simple experimental arrangements based on the measurements of contact times between a small body and long metallic rods with which the body can collide. An interesting effect of this approach is the revision of students’ ideas about the rigid body model, studied at high school or college level and usually hardly followed by deepening on the fundamenta…
MICROSCOPIC AND MACROSCOPIC ASPECTS OF STUDENT KNOWLEDGE IN ELECTRIC CONDUCTION IN METALS
2010
This paper presents some preliminary results of a research aimed at portraying individual models of description/explanation of electrical conduction in metals shown by physics prospective teachers and at studying how a specifically designed pedagogical environment can support an adequate evolution of their knowledge and disciplinary competencies. A teaching/learning sequence (TLS) on the subject matter, making use of custom Information Technology tools, aimed at facilitating and scaffolding learning, is shortly described. Some relevant points of the research pilot phases, like the analysis of prospective teachers’ spontaneous models of electrical conduction, the identification of significan…
Inquiry-Based Approach and Numerical Simulations: A Powerful Integration in Condensed Matter Physics Education
2020
In this chapter, we present and discuss two inquiry-based learning paths on condensed matter physics topics in which numerical simulations play a relevant role. The first one addresses the study of the electron transport dynamics via simulative explorations in 3D semiconductors. His emphasis is not on student modelling skills, but rather on a chain of reasoned investigations performed within a learning environment aimed at supporting a valuable understanding of the physics concepts underlying the complex world of semiconductor electronics. The second learning path is a 5E-cycle-based workshop of advanced physics targeted to strengthen student’s understanding of the various aspects of the Ha…
L'elemento soggettivo e la didattica della progettazione architettonica
2008
Ogni anno, con una certa quantità di ripetizioni e di innovazioni, si procede alla stesura di un programma didattico che, articolato in più voci (collocazione nel progetto formativo, obiettivi, contenuti, modalità d’esame, bibliografia essenziale), struttura le tappe di un percorso nei mesi in cui si sviluppa l’insegnamento. Nella presente riflessione, senza svalutare in alcun modo le conoscenze oggettive che possono concretizzarsi in una interpretazione dei punti della teoria della progettazione di Rossi, si vuole individuare un percorso didattico che parta dalla componente autobiografica dello studente. Per affrontare tale questione si dovrebbe spostare l’attenzione sul modo in cui gli…
THE CREATIVITY AND RESILIENCE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (CRDP) TO INVESTIGATE LEARNING PRACTICE IN THE USE OF ICT
2016
Much research has demonstrated that students' cognitive characteristics as general mental ability or prior level of achievement do explain a substantial proportion of the variance in subsequent achievement, but only more recently has research focused on relationships between cognitive characteristics of students and the process variables of classroom behaviour. In conceptualizations of teaching-learning situations, cognitive characteristics of students are seen as one cluster of determinants of the interactive and learning processes established in the classroom. The researchers suggest that flexibility is central to creative adaptation. The centrality of flexibility to creative adaptation a…
An approach to the Venturi effect by historical instruments
2021
Student understanding of the laws that describe the flow of a fluid is often hampered by a defective knowledge of basic classical mechanics (kinematics, statics, dynamics, and conservation laws) and by wrong common-sense ideas about quantities related to fluids, such as velocity and pressure. A pedagogical discussion about the Venturi effect, based on experiments inspired by historical instruments, may be an effective way to introduce students to these laws. In this paper, we discuss an approach to the understanding of the Venturi effect based on the study of historical instruments and on simple experiments. In particular, after a presentation of the Venturi effect, also from a historical p…
Analysing the conceptions on modelling of engineering undergraduate students: A case study using cluster analysis
2016
The problem of taking a set of data and separating it into subgroups where the elements of each subgroup are more similar to each other than they are to elements not in the subgroup has been extensively studied through the statistical method of Cluster Analysis . This method can be conveniently used to separate students into groups that can be recognized and characterized by common traits in their answers, without any prior knowledge of what form those groups would take (unsupervised classification). In the last years many studies examined the consistency of students’ answers in a variety of situations. Some of these papers have tried to develop more detailed models of the consistency of st…