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Digital Wisdom Development and Self-reflection of Teacher Candidates
2023
Being digitally wise allows today’s students not only to strengthen their natural abilities through existing technologies, but also to respond appropriately to learning networks that are increasingly complex. As a result, it is crucial that teachers and educators continually update and expand their professional knowledge base and improve their practices in order to meet the learning needs of their increasingly diverse students. The research has been conducted during the academic year 2021–2022 with the participation of 1173 teacher trainees enrolled in the Primary Education Degree Program at the University of Palermo. The trainees carried out their activities through digital tools. Brown an…
Fostering learning and innovation skills in Initial Teacher Education
2018
L'opportunità di partecipare attivamente alla formazione iniziale degli insegnanti e l'esperienza di ricerca svolta durante il dottorato ha consentito all’a. di verificare come creare, attraverso l’uso delle tecnologie, ambienti di apprendimento e situazioni didattiche che migliorano le soft skills dei futuri docenti. È stato così possibile esplorare nuovi ambienti di apprendimento e di insegnamento, nuove forme organizzative e nuove modalità di interazione tra docenti e studenti verificandone la validità e l’efficacia. Le conclusioni ricavate dalla ricerca hanno fornito indicazioni utili per il miglioramento delle competenze trasversali dei futuri docenti. Numerous studies reveal that ther…
Learning strategies, decision-making styles and conscious use of technologies in initial teacher education
2018
The aim of this research is to develop a toolkit enabling to observe transversal skills of future teachers. The research was carried out with 236 students attending the Educational Technologies course at the Primary Education program at Palermo University, during academic year 2017/2018. The research hypothesis is that the knowledge of the initial situation of students, as much objective as possible, requires triangulation, comparison and integration of the information collected with three self-assessment tools. An Italian toolkit is now available. It allows to detect the following, at the beginning of the university course: (i) how students integrate ICT with disciplinary contents and teac…
Awareness and knowledge of cyberethics: A comparative study of preservice teachers in Malta, Norway, and Spain
2021
This paper explores the awareness and knowledge of cyberethics held by pre-service teachers across three European countries. The study was conducted via an online survey and yielded 1,131 responses from pre-service teachers in Malta, Norway, and Spain. The facets of cyberethics included in this study focused on behaving responsibly online, safeguarding privacy, respecting copyright, seeking consent of friends before posting images or videos on social media platforms, and considering their professional identity as future teachers when posting online. The findings indicate that pre-service teachers reported relatively similar levels of competence in applying copyright and respecting privacy r…
A multidimensional adapted process model of teaching
2021
AbstractIn the present study, we aimed to specify the key competence domains perceived to be critical for the teaching profession and depict them as a comprehensive teacher competence model. An expert panel that included representatives from seven units providing university-based initial teacher education in Finland carried out this process. To produce an active construction of a shared understanding and an interpretation of the discourse in the field, the experts reviewed literature on teaching. The resulting teacher competence model, the multidimensional adapted process model of teaching (MAP), represents a collective conception of the relevant empirical literature and prevailing discours…
Learning to be a university student: reflective practice and study strategies of future teachers
2022
Every change in human life brings along an adaptation process. University transition includes most turbulent developmental periods of life as these years stand for the last stage of adolescence and can be considered as a critical transitional period both socially and biologically. In addition to the general confusion of adolescence, this period includes many problems such as leaving home and family, choosing friends and groups, being a candidate for a profession and finding a job. While making the transition to the academic life, students have to find their own identity, adopt and reconcile the values of the local and childhood period socially, the national and universal values of the socie…
Opportunità educative della realtà aumentata nella formazione iniziale dei docenti
2022
Il presente contributo mira a esplorare gli atteggiamenti nei confronti della realtà aumentata dei docenti di scuola primaria e dell’infanzia in formazione iniziale. L’indagine ha coinvolto 299 studenti dell'Università di Palermo. Si tratta di studenti, prevalentemente donne (94%; n=281), iscritti al primo anno del corso di laurea in Scienze della Formazione Primaria. L'età dei partecipanti è compresa tra i 18 ei 38 anni, con un'età media di 20,57 anni (SD=3,4). All'inizio del secondo semestre dell’a.a. 2021/22, durante il corso di Tecnologie didattiche per la scuola primaria e dell’infanzia, è stato somministrato un questionario costituito da domande sia a risposta aperta che a risposta ch…
STRATEGIE INNOVATIVE PER LA FORMAZIONE INIZIALE DEGLI INSEGNANTI. Pratiche Riflessive, Competenze Digitali ed Educazione del Carattere.
Flipped Classroom e sviluppo delle soft skills nella formazione iniziale dei futuri insegnanti
2019
La presente ricerca empirica si sviluppa in continuità con gli studi avviati, fin dal 2014, per elaborare setting didattici, atti a favorire il successo acca-demico di studenti che si preparano a divenire insegnanti. Nell’ambito dell’attuale studio sono stati elaborati percorsi didattici mirati centrati sullo sviluppo delle soft skills. Le soft skills come la comunicazione, la collaborazione, la creatività e l'im-prenditorialità sono sempre più richieste in campo educativo. Come possiamo misurare queste competenze relazionali e gestionali? Come gli studenti (futu-ri insegnanti) possono dimostrare di possederle? Come queste soft skills ven-gono agite negli ambienti digitali? Nel tentativo di…
Relationships and linguistically sensitive teaching : Developing teacher practicum at Åbo Akademi University
2020
Project “Linguistically sensitive teaching in all classrooms” (Listiac) aims to make an impact on initial teacher education systems in Europe through action research. In line with European policies, the seven partner countries including Finland, Spain (the autonomous Basque country and Catalonia), Belgium, France, Slovenia, Lithuania and Portugal work together in providing competences and skills needed for handling linguistic diversity in our schools. Diversity education has been regarded nearly everywhere as an isolated ‘add-on’ course or study module (EC 2017). Thus, it has remained insufficiently mainstreamed as an integrated component of teaching practice. Listiac addresses this imbalan…