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The project has been designed for developing strategies for how teachers’ roles and conditions can support and enable deeper learning for students.
In detail,to study, analyze and understand the phenomena of the physical world in which we live, we will construct models, starting from quantitative measures, capable of making predictions and comparing themselves with measures subsequently carried out (IBSE - Inquire Based Science Education).
The theft of a student's scooter in a dark street initiates the speech in the classroom on public lighting. Crime context is a good start point because the risk of the theft of their scooter is a problem which our students live every day.
So they study and search for their community street lighting's costs (consumption and life light bulbs, etc.) and effectiveness and adequacy (PBL - Project Based Learning). Starting from a real fact of crime, we will then focus on the fundamental concepts for the analysis and execution of the measures and we will compare tools, instruments and protocols already consolidated with the new practices offered by smartphones and apps.
The role of FiatLux...responsibly, on a global and personal scale, is developing a scientific mentality in students who will use to evaluate media and commercial arguments on sustainability too. The study and research of efficient public lighting increseas awareness among students of their role and the impact of thei choices within their community.
Fiatlux... responsibly reflects the policy priorities of the Europe 2020 strategy and addresses major concerns shared by citizens in Europe and elsewhere. A challenge-based approach is the main approach of the activities that bring together resources and knowledge across different fields, technologies and disciplines, including social sciences and the humanities. The study about their community street lighting cover activities from research to market with a new focus on innovation-related activities, such as piloting, demonstration, test-beds, and support for public procurement and market uptake. In detail, a deep focus on Wellbeing and Efficient energy.
Tasks are designed and undertaken by students 14-16 years of age. The results are expected to be an increased awareness of their role and the impact of their choices within their comunity, within the world.
This activity carry out also because today students learn and manage information and communication differently from previous generations. A new pedagogy, the Actor Network Theory, is in fact studying the behavior of people along with objects, and no more than just people or how people use objects. Today, the first contact with new media becomes increasingly precocious and using new technologies in educational activities increases learning opportunities, both for teachers and for learners. The smartphone then becomes an all-rounder tool with which to carry out practical activities of authentic research: BYOD - Bring Your Own Device.
A specific work on the gender gap has not been developed, but the following two guidelines have been adopted:
- Inclusive action. It is the ability to adopt family-friendly policies and practices, capable of supporting both sexes and free from prejudices in attracting and retaining people.
- Empowering environment. A study environment that instead of dictating the rules leaves girls and boys free to be creative and to train, as well as the possibility of studying in a flexible way, increases the chances of advancement for girls.
- the leading of new profitable partnership which together work on and advancing towards collaborative decision-makerand shared reponsibility (Public engagment);
- the breaking down of gender stereotypes through the activities proposed always without any prejudice on gender (Gender Equality);
- the promoting of both innovative problem‐solving and critical thinking; the empowering of both engagement and an entrepreneurial mindset; the promoting of citizen participation in science policy making (Science education);
- the sharing of responsibilities for the impacts of science and the reflecting on people’s ideas (Ethics);
- the promoting of access to both publications and data for opening new horizons (Open access).
Few resources needed to carry out this project. It is hard to create a list of human resources needed, because they will depend on the milieu and the associations/organizations involved. Economic resources it would be necessary for. 1) create an handbook and a decalogue with the findings of the project, in paper format; 2) daily office materials (pen, paper, etc.); 3) smartphone and tablet with Internet as measure instruments and to develop digital materials (documents, researchs, etc.).
The project was developed by Fondazione Idis-Città della Scienza. The Fondazione's activities aim at building a new economy based on knowledge in order to create a greater social cohesion. Our mission is based on the valorisation of territorial resources with a particular attention to the European and Mediterranean contexts. Fondazione Idis supports its local stakeholders (school networks, companies, enterprises, local bodies and associations) which become partners by contributing to test new cultural products and spread their effects through local actions. Foundation Idis - Città della Scienza has always worked in training teaching and new didactic methodologies. In detail, it has been characterized as a foundation specialized in the study and proposal of tools to support the teaching of science and its innovation as well as in training and career guidance and education. The Science Centre of Città della Scienza is the first Italian interactive science museum, a place for experimentation, learning, entertaining; to meeting and to build a constructive dialogue with science and technology.