·  Title of object

· Author of object

· Type of license (how you can use this object)

· Link to the object

As I said in the previous activity, I decided to browse the thematic collection “Migration”. I am going to present my object:

·  Title of object: dipinto | Raffaello Gambogi

· Author of object :Raffaello Gambogi (1874-1943)

· Type of license (how you can use this object): No Re-use. In copyright.

· Link to the object:

dipinto - http://europeana.eu/portal/record/2048011/work_66405.html. Raffaello Gambogi. MuseiD-Italia - http://www.culturaitalia.it/opencms/viewItem.jsp?language=en&case=&id=oai%3Aculturaitalia.it%3Amuseiditalia-work_66405.

Considering the copyright, I decided to look for the original source, as suggested by the Guide to using Europeana in Education.     I discovered that I should obtain other permissions for my intended use, but at the same time, I could find the name and the address/phone number of the person I should contact in order to obtain a temporal authorisation for my intended use.

Developing a project called “Citizenship and Constitution”, mainly addressed to children (of different  nationalities) who do not attend courses of Catholic Religion, personally, I would like to focus my attention on the sections (thamatic collections, galleries and exhibitions) of the Europeana platform concerning the topic of Migration.
One resource I would like to use in order to create my potential learning scenario is one of the Europeana Galleries, “Famous Migrants” (in order to create my learning scenario, I intend to use also other resources of the Europeana Platform). This Gallery includes many pictures (portraits, photos, sketches..) which represent famous men and women, European migrants or refugees, who became great artists or scientists.
 

Considering the groups of children I am currently working with (10 groups of children belonging to 10 different classes), my potential learning scenario could be addressed to 2 groups of 3 children (9-10-11 years old). I may develop 3 possible activities linked to this particular resource. 

1^st activity (4 stages): creation of a group PPT Presentation.
First stage: Teacher’s brief introduction to the Europeana Platform and to its resources.

Teacher’s explanation of the main objective of the Project: “Group PPT Presentation of ONE EUROPEAN ARTIST’ S LIFE AND ONE EUROPEAN SCIENTIST’S LIFE”. As I have already said, this virtual Gallery consists of many pictures (portraits, photos, sketches..) which represent famous men and women, European migrants or refugees, who became great artists or scientists.

Each group of students should select one picture of the Gallery (one famous artist and one famous scientist). 
Many of these pictures can't be re-used because of the Copyright, but they might be considered as the children's research starting point  (identification of the famous artist/scientist whose life will be investigated).
Each group should carry out reseach on the famous artist’s life or on the famous scientist’s life, using resources only included in the Europeana Platform or integrating them with external resources. 

Each group should explain the main reasons of the scientist/artist’s fame and awards, especially paying attention on his/her movements across Europe (use of maps) and the main causes of them.

Considering the roles in every group, two students will have to summarize the content of the texts of their research, writing a new short PPT text based on the information they read on the platform or new consistent information they decided to add. The other student will have to select other consistent images/videos ( found on the platform or not) related to the PPT text written by his/her schoolmates.

During the lesson (laboratory), all the students of a group can talk about the information they discovered and analysed. At this point, they are invited to consider which kind of information or images/videos (found on the platform or added) have to be used in order to create their PPT presentation (selection of the material). 

During the following lesson (laboratory), all the students of a group must have the opportunity to present a part of their PPT presentation, sharing their work with all the other students.

 

The teacher should combine the 2 PPT Presentations and share the whole work with his/her students using an online platform like Nearpod. In this way, he/she can also provide other useful information, create open questions, short quizzes, questionnaire related to the topics taken into account by the students (with immediate feedback). Alternatively, he might use also another interesting learning tool like Quizlet.

 

My project (“Citizenship and Costitution”) included five learning units, concerning different topics: “the History of the Self”, “Environmental Education”, “Nutritional Education” and “Road Safety Education”.
The content and the degree of detail was calibrated in accordance with children’s age, intercultural and linguistic competence. The majority were from Egypt and Morocco. Some of them, representing the first generation who was born in Italy, spoke Italian as a second language fluently, others, who moved to Italy over the course of the year, had to start with the basics. 

Working with small groups of students and in a different classroom, I decided to use only my laptop.
My students could freely have access to it and use it for our purposes.
Finally, during the year, everyone could check his/her Learning Diary (our portfolio), constantly updated and personalized.

From April to June 2016, in Milan (at “the Scuola secondaria di primo grado Moscati Mameli”), I had the opportunity to teach three children (two Chilean children who had just moved to Italy and one Chinese Child) Italian as a second language. I was a volunteer and, without any previous experience, I tryed to teach these three children the basics of Italian, helping them do their daily homework and improve their communication skills. Thanks to this first experience, I started to develop a strong interest in language education (how languages are learnt and taught).