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The meeting of disciplines, a resource The Percro team of researchers brings us varied examples of experience in the field of education and offers us various routes of experimentation. The necessary condition is, however, that there is a full collaboration between the world of school and the world of computer research, to design paths that are targeted and therefore didactically valid. Everything must be well concerted in the smallest details, planning the learning objectives that must be modulated on the physiognomy of the school receiving the intervention...

A walk in the past. Virtual reality in the teaching of the humanities Technological research outlines new horizons in which it is possible to insert a targeted didactic, designed thanks to the intersection of different disciplines. Digital storytelling, serious games, augmented or virtual reality is incredible means to undertake multidisciplinary educational paths aimed at creating skills and knowledge in accordance with the lives of children and adolescents in today's society. The key to the effective...

As a follow-up to the first article: 6. How does a computer's memory work? Computer memory assigns addresses to objects: it consists of a large metadata system that allows the search for information through the identification of an address. 7. How does human memory work? Human memory is made as a system of appeals. Mental representations are all the more active, therefore able to be called to consciousness, the more they have been treated in perspective, reworked. In order to memorize infrequent activities, it is necessary to associate them with something...

The book Against Digital Colonialism. Instructions to continue reading by Roberto Casati (Laterza, 2013), is an opportunity to think about the change brought by reading and its effects on education and teaching. Casati, philosopher and director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the Institut Nicod, discards side by side the contrast between apocalyptic and integrated, between the "playful rejection" of technocrats and the "messianic adoration" of technophiles, based...

Crises are not only punctual moments, chapters of history, which we include here and there in the overall narrative. Crises can innervate and periodize this narrative. They constitute a privileged point of view, because they allow us to articulate it in simple, effective, easily comprehensible moments and, a fundamental fact for the formative processes, they open to the present world and to the problems we live in. They allow us, therefore, to talk about the past, to study it and - without present-day...