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The Italian institute is taught only with the help of gadgets

The first high-tech institute was opened in Bardonecchia for athlete managers.

Tablets instead of books and interactive multimedia boards. Ballpoint pens are already perceived by an ancient artifact, everything here is informatized and interconnected using wi-fi. Even lectures are transmitted through a special Dropbox network; for the exchange of information, students use not notebooks and diaries, but posts and e-mails.

You may decide that this is a college from Silicon Valley. In fact, this is the Institute of Freyus Bardonecchia, located in Alta Val di Susa (Istituto Frejus di Bardonecchia, in Alta Val di Susa) not far from Turin.

This is the first Italian "100% computerized" higher school, in which training takes place exclusively on electronic devices.

A curious innovation introduced at the institute "management, finance and marketing" with a sports slope, which is located at an altitude of 1300 meters in the northwestern Alps, where the snow lies for six months a year. Although already in 1982 gode - then Freyus was just a scientific lyceum and not a closed boarding school, as today - Professor Giovanni Valentini taught lectures in mathematics, using the first mac.

“In Rome, this idea was suspicious and sent inspectors to me to control,” recalls Valentini, the owner and director of the institute, founded almost 50 years ago.

Today Freus - it's a ski college with family management, organized for ski students and just for those who play sports at a professional level. Many prominent athletes became his graduates. Now there are studying seventy students from all over Italy, divided into five courses, from first to fifth. Purpose? “To give young people a profession. So that after their athletic career, they could immediately plunge into the world of work, and in the same sports environment,” the director explains. “It’s also useful for the local economy, which has the opportunity to better develop tourism in the region.”

Official website: www.istitutofrejus.it

The introduction of new technologies will finally allow young athletes to combine competition and training with training - the eternal dilemma of all athletes.

“In the morning, lectures are held in classrooms, after lunch, playing sports, and before dinner, study again,” comments deputy director Gianluca Pasquale, 35-year-old teacher of mathematics and computer science and curator of the project “full computerization”. “During the competition season, it often happens that students are absent for weeks. But with computers and tablets, even while away, they stay in touch with the school: they can study lectures on various subjects in real time, download notes and share them with friends, highlight the right in e-books, just as you do on paper, do your homework. "

The success of the project was confirmed by 19-year-old Riccardo Ravizza, footballer Lega Pro in Alexandria (Lega Pro nell'Alessandria) and fifth-year student: “Even when I can’t attend classes because of the same competitions, everything I need to study with I’m on hand, on the tablet.I look through lectures, study, do homework and send them to Dropbox. It used to be more difficult, now I have there was a desire to learn".

The only thing left un-digitized is the classroom exercises, which, by order of the ministry, should be done on paper.

“The multimedia method doesn’t just speed up the lectures,” Fabio Tanzilli, a specialist in public relations and journalism, shares, “it creates a sense of ownership. Which, in turn, improves the learning of the material and makes the children feel responsible, because the teachers and parents can monitor grades and performance online. "

Watch the video: The Ultimate Paper Airplane. WIRED (November 2024).

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