Ateneo - UPO

using digital resources critically and didactically in teaching in lower and/or upper secondary schools.
some topics are cross-cutting and identical regardless of the school order; others are in an increasing gradation of critical complexity but in a line of continuity with regard to concepts and tools.
the first part of the course deals with issues of principle (privacy, platforms, human work/machine work); the second part of the course, more centred on specific educational content, can be understood as a pathway towards the digital humanities

some chapters of
Ciotti, Fabio. Digital Humanities. Methods, tools, knowledge. Rome: Carocci, 2023.

- objectives - basic level; knowledge and understanding: to know existing tools and resources
- objectives - advanced level; ability to apply knowledge and understanding: to be able to plan the use of tools and resources effectively
- objectives - communication skills: to present acquired knowledge clearly
- objectives - study skills: to acquire autonomous and personally revised knowledge of study content

none;
useful to have non-episodic classroom teaching experience

frontal lesson;
analysis and reworking of experiences;
preparatory work at home;
group work;

bring your own laptop computer to class; or even tablets
lectures will be available in synchronous (streaming) and asynchronous mode (recording deposited in the course DIR space)

construction and presentation of a teaching project on the use of digital resources

privacy
mobile phone in the classroom
GAFAM platforms and alternatives
digital humanities
writing on the computer - PC, online, tablet; Word, Openoffice, PDF (Acrobat and PDFGear),
analysing texts with the computer: some statistics; computer and online analysis programmes
specific resources for Italian
specific resources for Classics
digital resources to support students with disabilities
use of AI systems: replacing or supplementing? past and present prehistory
writing with AI
using AI to do research (the different ChatGPT systems, Gemini, Claude, ...) with specific tools (Searchsmart Scispace Perplexity Semantic scholar, Connected paper) things to experience (Huggingface)
construct teaching materials (Studyfetch)
convert voice to text - text to voice
using digital tools in assigning homework and preparing tests (= how to give homework and tests that are not completely circumvented by AI and digital tools, but that complement them)

students are expected
at a basic level
to know how to describe resources and their possible uses; (cf. SUA A4.b.2: "utilizzare in modo appropriato la lingua italiana e i linguaggi settoriali")
know how to distinguish different levels of difficulty in the use of different resources;
at an advanced level:
to have acquired an autonomous and personally revised knowledge of the study content and are able to propose the adoption of methods and the use of digital resources in a personal and methodologically valid manner