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Press release from the Ministry of Education – A video game, entitled “The wizard of the climate”, to educate children about the problems derived from global warming. A wheelchair transformed, thanks to technology, into a tool for programmable rehabilitation exercises.
These are the two winning projects of #PremioScuolaDigitale, the initiative of the Ministry of Education created to promote the excellence of Italian schools in digital learning and teaching.
This year the award was extended to all first and second cycle schools. Schools have nominated projects aimed at improving innovative and experimental teaching models, curricular and extracurricular learning paths based on digital technologies, technology prototypes, and applications.
The #PremioScuolaDigitale was carried out through a provincial phase and a later regional one. 784 first cycle schools and 536 second cycle schools participated, involving 35,000 female students and more than 2,500 leading teachers for individual projects.
The comprehensive Institute “Oton Zupancic” of Gorizia won the first prize in the section dedicated to the first cycle, thanks to the “Climate Wizard”, a video game dedicated to the theme of climate change whose drawings were made entirely by children, so like all the instructions. The little students are also the narrating voices. The students practiced, in their didactic journey, with coding and, in particular, with the Scratch program, learning to program various types of video games.
The “Olivetti” Institute of Ivrea, for its part, won first prize in the second cycle section thanks to the project ‘PERLA’ (Programmable Exercises for the Rehabilitation of Legs and Arms) through which the students created an aid capable of mobilizing Joints of those people who, due to problems due to accidents, degenerative diseases or, simply, due to age, have difficulty in the movements of their arms and legs.
Thanks to two automatic armrests, which are attached to a wheelchair and are made from low-cost and recycled materials, users will be able to regain basic motor skills. The project was developed in collaboration with a physiotherapist (former student of the school) and a person with a disability.
“To the winning schools, but also to all those who participated, I congratulate them for their commitment and the ability to get involved, for having taken advantage of, in the difficult challenge of the moment, an extraordinary opportunity for change and participation – commented the Minister of Education Lucía Azzolina -. As a Ministry we believe in change and innovation. The broad participation in this national award shows us that many of us believe in it “.
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