Nuovi Media e Cittadinanza Digitale. La scuola del ventunesimo secolo come luogo per la democrazia

Abstract

In the networked society to live the experiences online and offline are two dimensions likely to be confused, jeopardizing the real formation of the person. The advent of Digital Media is changing, in terms of structure and function, even traditional media. The portability, interactivity and generativity create a new cognitive style than in the past, and this problematizes the role of the school and of the family who now have to deal with the so-called  Multitasking Generation, capable to carry out many activities simultaneously.

Offering to the new generations an idea of citizenship suited to the dynamics of a complex society, it means being able to combine, in the space of the meeting, the local with the global, in a size that realizes in the so-called "glo-cal". The goals of the twenty-first century school would be promoting the concept of digital citizenship, declined in terms of dialogue and encounter .