The most important experts from all over the world discuss on "new millennium learning". Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell'Autonomia Scolastica and OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) promote the convention, aiming at identifying future strategies to build a really innovative "school".

09.00 a.m.
Registrazion attendee

09.30 a.m.
Onorato Grassi Welcoming speech (Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell’Autonomia Scolastica, IT)

10.00 a.m.
1st Panel session: WHO ARE THE "DIGITAL NATIVES"?

Can we label “digital native” the new generation youth? Have the "new millennium learners" new competences or are they just the "cut and paste" generation? Which is the language they use in their everyday life and the one they use at school? Is there a sort of “digital disconnect”?

Eszter Hargittai (Northwestern University, US)
Rosamund Sutherland (University of Bristol, UK)
Wim Veen (Technological University of Delft, NL)
Francesc Pedrò CHAIRMAN (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation - OECD)

11.30 a.m.
2nd Panel session: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Time for questioning on the impact of ICT on the learning process: do ICT foster a new learning process and do technologies generate knowledge? Can we think about new cognitive strategies or just a more effective way to understand concepts?

Josie Taylor (Open University, UK)
Manuela Pietrass (University of Munich, DE)
Andrew Gordon (University of Washington, US)
Lance Bennett (University of Washington, US)
Antonio Giunta La Spada CHAIRMAN (Directorate for International Affairs, Ministry of Education, IT)

13.00 a.m.
Lunch Break

15.00 a.m.
3rd Panel session: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, EDUCATIONAL RESULTS AND LEARNING EXPECTATIONS

This area will concern the debate on the changes that ICT have brought into the "school". Innovation in the learning environment, new school spaces, a new didactical organization, new contents, a new role for the teachers. Will all that really transform the school of the next few years?

Eric Bruillard (Institut national de recherche pédagogique, FR)
Josep Maria Mominó (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, ES)
Morten Søby (Network for IT Research and Competence in Education ­ ITU, NO)
Giovanni Biondi Chairman (Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell’Autonomia Scolastica, IT)

17.00
Research on digital natives: the way ahead

Constance Yowell (MacArthur Foundation, US)

17.30
OECD work in Education

Tom Schuller (Head of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation - OECD)

Mr Giuseppe Fioroni, Italian Minister of Education
will participate in the conference

The entrance is free and simultaneous translation will be provided.
Travel and accomodation fees will be on charge of the participants.