Il presente contributo mira a indagare le percezioni e gli effetti che la Didattica a Distanza ha prodotto sugli individui con Disturbi Specifici dell’Apprendimento (DSA) e Bisogni Educativi Speciali (BES). Durante l’ultimo anno, l’emergenza epidemiologica da COVID-19 ha promosso una rimodulazione repentina delle metodologie didattiche e degli ambienti di apprendimento verso l’ubiquitous learning. Tuttavia, già da diversi anni, si avvertiva l’impellente necessità di innovare il fare pedagogico attraverso l’applicazione di nuove tecnologie inclusive e l’accomodamento della didattica al funzionamento cerebrale del singolo alunno. A tal fine, si riflette sulla prevenzione delle difficoltà cognitive e si evidenziano le statistiche scolastiche, riferite all’a.s. 2019/2020, circa le misure compensative adottate per fronteggiare i DSA e BES.

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The present study was aimed to investigate English learning as second language, in school, in first, second and third graders of twelve classes randomly assigned to a control or an experimental group. Children in the latter are exposed during English school teaching to the method “An English Island®” and to its platform activities. The method “An English Island®” offers a variety of strategies for teaching English in primary school, an innovative digital tool that promotes teaching/learning English language’s communicative approach, lead students to become familiar with the language in a sort of continuous, inclusive workout, in which everyone participates and talks.English skills as well as cognitive abilities are tested in both groups at the beginning and at the end of the school year with the aim to compare control and experimental classes in both a longitudinal and a cross-sectional design.

L’adozione della tecnologia per strutturare setting di apprendimento immersivo potrebbe fungere da strumento di potenziamento delle competenze e abilità acquisite e costituisce anche una preziosa risorsa per il potenziamento di quelle più critiche. Porre i sistemi di realtà virtuale immersiva al servizio della didattica rappresenta un’occasione di imparare, sperimentare e sviluppare le proprie potenzialità in un ambiente di apprendimento situato. Il presente paper affronta, quindi, le dimensioni principalmente coinvolte nell’apprendimento mediato dalle realtà immersive, con particolare riferimento allo sviluppo cognitivo e alle abilità sociali. Tale revisione punta a fornire una cornice teorica e metodologica utile a offrire una panoramica sulle esperienze più recenti che la letteratura presenta, in ottica di didattica immersiva.

In Italy, K-12 teachers and school institutions’ digital comptencies were under the average in the OECD Countries (Talis Survey, 2018), and they struggled during the lockdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has forever changed the way in which the didactic is provided.The University of Foggia Learning Science hub (LSh), in Italy, works on designing and planning new methodologies to teach digital skills to pre-service teachers (especially special needs teachers), in order to enhance their knowledge and use of digital skills in planning and providing interventions, lessons and courses.To guide the designing and planning activities, we have administered the DigComp 2.2, the newest version of the self-report questionnaire of the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens created by the European Commission, to 338 teachers attending a specialization course to become special needs teachers at the University of Foggia in the current Academic Year (2022/2023).In the present study, the collected results of the survey will be analyzed and discussed, becoming the cornerstone of LSh research in this field. At the end of the specialization course, the survey will be proposed again, to compare teachers’ digital skills at the beginning and the end of the course.