The Covid-19 pandemic, since March 2020, has "challenged" early childhood education services, forcing them to work for a long period in emergency: regulations to contain the contagion have forced education professionals in the zero-to-six age group to rethink the educational relationship by downsizing the role of physical contact, revising spaces, methodologies and routines. Both during the closure of services (in 2020) and in the following two years, the use of digital technologies has been a necessity in order to be able to maintain contact with children (first) and families (later): the contribution, starting from the analysis of some experiences, reflects on the challenges opened up by the emergency and the new perspectives that are being inaugurated with a view to integrating digital experiences alongside traditional ones within educational services.

Media Education is an increasingly more topical area of investigation and one that calls for urgent and profound reflection. This book is designed to offer a reading of the more or less explicit contributions made to the subject by Umberto Eco. As a multi-faceted intellectual (semiologist, sociologist, journalist etc.), he proposes a key to the reading of contemporary society and the media, offering suggestions both theoretical and methodological, both semiological and sociological-critical. Exploiting an approach that goes beyond the "apocalyptic" and the "integrated", he has refined a meta- and inter-disciplinary attitude and a critical vocation that traverse his entire extensive production on the media. This complex and articulated meditation has also given rise to a perspective on Media Education which has not been sufficiently noted to date, but which proves to be of considerable significance in theoretical and operational terms. Advanced, cultured and telling.

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Proponiamo il racconto di un’esperienza condotta da alcune classi di scuola dell’infanzia della provincia di Trento, durante l’anno scolastico 2019/2020, il primo della pandemia. L’attività di formazione e la relativa sperimentazione nelle classi si è incentrata sull’utilizzo di un particolare strumento digitale, l’i-Theatre, che consente l'effettuazione di percorsi di Media Education nella scuola dei piccoli. Il percorso ci ha permesso di avviare con i docenti una riflessione su questo tema, partendo dalla domanda di fondo se l’introduzione della tecnologia in questo ordine di scuola sia auspicabile.