Grandfathers on Internet Italian Digital Literacy Training Programme

“Grandfathers on Internet” Italian Digital Literacy Training Programme for the year 2008 -2009 Kick off Meeting, Silver Project, Rome 16 October 2008

Fondazione Mondo Digitale is a NGO founded by the Municipality of Rome, Lazio Region and ICT companies as, Intel, Acea, Unisys, Wind ect. FMD’s core mission is to spread the benefits of the use of the newest ICTs among schools and learning environments. In this respect, over the past 6 years it has been leading relevant educational initiatives at local/national/international level , one of the most important initiatives is the project “Grandfathers on Internet”.

Grandfathers on Internet : Main objectives 1. Innovate traditional learning and teaching methods (lifelong learning) towards adults through the ingredients of the so called 21 st Century Education 2. Create a smooth an easy approach of over 60 s towards the use of PC: internet surfing, communication through email and use on internet-based services 3. Active involvement of young students in the educational process 4. Favor generational exchange

Courses location Schools primary, secondary and upper-secondary

Training is targeted to over 60 s citizens of Rome, particularly those from elderly social centers

Training is held inside school ICT labs

Who is the coordinator? An ICT expert professor from the hosting school He teaches PC theory, takes care of trainees and coordinates tutors

Students/ Tutors The follow step-by-step their alumni … through their improvements.

Tutors are a constant support throughout the learning process Course topics • Writing • Internet • E-mail

1 tutor for 2 “grandfathers”

Elder and Tutor an exchange of experiences and knoeldge Tutor teach how to use PC Grandfathers tell about their past though snapshots, fairytales, their plays and stories… They bring all together in an electronic journal and store everything into a CD

Very good tutors from primary and secondary schools

Moments from the course

Hands-on learning

Folders, file, e-mail, web browsers … g o l b @ . w ww Google … become familiar nouns

Course features v For free v Target: over 60 s v Location: schools v 15 lessons, one per week, 2 hours each v 1 tutor every two trainees v 1 coordinating teacher v Free manual v Generational exchange v Final certificate

Didactical material FMD, in partnership with the University “La Sapienza” (Linguistic Dept) and with the contribution of the Intel Corporation (Italy), has realized a training kit for an easy, accessible and aware use of PC and Internet: v Guidelines for the elders v Guidelines for teacher v Guidelines for tutors v Toolkit for the use of PC

VII Edition in numbers 80 courses in Rome 4 courses in the Umbria region 2 courses in province of Rome 5 courses in the Lazio region

Results of the previous 6 editions 110 courses in Rome (all districts) 110 schools 110 Elderly Social Centers 3000 students as tutors 400 coordinating teachers 6000 elders trained

VII Edition Schools (1/2) Roman Schools • • • • • • L. S. S. “I. Newton”–plesso “Via dell’Olmata” I. P. S. I. A. "E. De Amicis" L. C. S. "G. Mameli" S. M. S. "Esopo" I. C. "Tiburtina Antica 25" 196° C. D. plesso “C. Massaia” 196° C. D. plesso “Angeli della Città” S. M. S. "E. Majorana" I. C. "C. Levi" I. T. I. S. "A. Pacinotti" S. M. S. “Val di Lanzo” S. M. S. "L. Di Liegro"- plesso “Via dei Fiorentini” S. M. S. "L. Di Liegro"- plesso “Via Facchinetti” I. C. "G. B. Palombini" 141° C. D. "San Cleto" 141° C. D. - plesso “Palatucci” I. P. S. I. A. "Europa" I. C. "G. B. Valente” S. M. S. "L. Pavoni" • • • • • • I. I. S. "Aquilonia" 126° C. D. "I. Masih" 81° C. D. "M. Polo” 81° C. D. plesso “Via Tenore” I. C. "M. L. King“ 165° C. D. "M. Kolbe" 87° C. D. "A. Negri” S. M. S. “F. Petrarca” I. T. I. S. "H. Hertz" I. C. "Fontanile Anagnino" 182° C. D. "F. Fellini" I. C. "G. Milanesi" I. T. I. S. “G. Armellini" L. S. S. “G. Peano" 102° C. D. "Mar de Caraibi“ L. S. S. “A. Labriola" I. T. C. "F. Magellano" I. C. "A. Leonori“ 194° C. D. "Massa Marittima" I. C. "Fratelli Cervi" S. M. S. "A. Gramsci" S. M. S. "F. de André"

VII Edition Schools (1/2) Roman Schools • • • • L. C. S. "D. Alighieri" IV L. A. "A. Caravillani" L. S. S. "E. Torricelli" 299° C. D. "Papa Wojtyla" 299° C. D. plesso “XXI Aprile” 103° C. D. “Celli” 103° C. D. plesso “I. Pizzetti” I. C. "Chiodi" I. T. I. S. "E. Fermi" I. I. S. “V. Gassman” S. M. S. "P. Stefanelli" I. C. "Via Cassia, 1690" I. T. C. "P. Calamandrei" I. T. I. S. "B. Pascal" Province of Rome • • • 3° C. D. "E. De Filippo" 157° C. D. “Passoscuro” 157° C. D. plesso “Torre in Pietra” I. C. " L. da Vinci" S. M. S. "A. Velletrano" Lazio Region • • • S. M. S. "A. Volta" I. A. "A. Calcagnadoro" Umbria Region • • I. C. A. Orvietano - S. M. S. “Fabro Scalo” I. C. A. Orvietano -plesso – S. M. S. “Ficulle” I. C. A. Orvietano - plesso S. M. S. “Monte Gabbione” I. C. A. Orvietano – “S. Monteleone”

Women are from 55 to 90 years old. The majority is between 58 and 76 years old

Man are from 57 to 87 years old. The majority is between 63 and 81 years old

“Non mi buttare…al Centro Anziani c’è post@ per me” … great fuss in the City

Non mi buttare… Al centro anziani c’è post@ per me! Campaign for the re-use of dismissed PC by companies and public administrations The aim is to equip 140 elderly social centers with two dismissed computers coming from private/public companies. Students from Roman schools join the initiative by providing their technical support in setting up PC anew and installing open source OS or Windows OS and software which is freely provided to schools (FMD is now an “Authorized MAR Center”

2008 News! 50 Eni Corners The FMD and the Eni Foundation will provide 50 Roman elderly centers with an Internet Cornet with these equipments: • 3 computer Pentium III • One-year free Internet connectio

On going list of the Centers to be equipped with the “corners” • • • • • I I II II II IV V V VI VII VIII IX X XI San Saba Aventino Miani Castro Pretorio Sallustiano San Quintino Associazione Csa Testaccio Nuovi Orizzonti Villaggio Olimpico Villa Leopardi Serpentara Colli Aniene De Magistris Casilino 23 Sandro Pertini Alessandrino Massa Silani Villa Lais Largo Spartaco Centro Polivalente Parco Schuster XII XII XIII XV XV XVIII XIX XX XX XX Colle di Mezzo Tor De Cenci Laurentina Decima Associazione Dragona Ostia Dragoncello Associazione Amici di Corviale Piana del Sole Sabotino Val Cannuta Cornelia Balduina Primavalle Centro Sociale Municipio XX Cesano Galline Bianche La Storta

500 PC have already been donated by Poste Italiane S. p. a.

PC Donators up to date v. Poste Italiane v. The Municipality of Rome v. Engineering v. Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura v. Zetema v. Acea v. Ceida v. Legal private offices v. Citizens “Disposing of old PC is a cost, reciclying them is and investment”

Schools involved by the initiative up to date I. T. I. S “G. Armellini” I. T. I. S. “B. Pascal” I. T. I. S “E. Fermi” I. T. I. S. “A. Pacinotti” I. T. C. “P. Calamandrei” I. T. I. S “H. Hertz” L. S. S. “B. Russell” S. M. S. “P. Stefanelli” I. P. S. I. A. “C. Cattaneo”

Campaign main results 171 Regenerated PC by students 68 Elderly Centers have been fournished Work is under way to equip all 140 Centers and scale the initiative at the whole Lazio Region

City Back to School! The Digital Literacy Week

Tutti su Internet “Digital Literacy Week” From 2006 on, course editions end up with a great event involving all schools and elder centers for the promotion of Digital Literacy and Lifelong Learning. The initiative is also supported by the Municipality of Rome

Grandfathers on the Internet in Europe Twinning with the Irish government that has just launched a national initiative for the promotion of digital literacy with the project Log On, Learn. The project is supported by Intel Ireland. And … Silver Project: Stimulating ICT Learning for Active EU Elders involving Spain, Rumania and Belgium

Main Objectives of SILVER Project v. Development of an online environment to create communities of elders, students/teachers/other stakeholders using/improving the methodology and sharing . knowledge (experiences/solutions). The integration of the “physical environment” of current elderly training programmes and this “virtual environment” results in an innovative “phyrtual” environment based on people and knowledge codification. v Enrich, translate, customize and implement the current didactical kit about basic ICT skills (1 st level) with new 2 nd and 3 rd level courses about social networking (blog, podcast, profiling etc. ) and e-government services respectively; v Carry out in depth case studies of the innovative methodological and didactical aspects of the project, in order to deepen knowledge codification and strengthen the educational foundations of the programme.

Th@nks!

Silvia Celani Coordinator of International Projects Fondazione Mondo Digitale www. mondodigitale. org info@mondodigitale. org Tel + 39 06. 42. 01. 41. 09 Fax + 39 06. 42. 000. 442