Nearly one and a half million people partecipate in social networking communities such as YouTube, Myspace and Facebook, according to the
Italians and Relationship Marketing survey commissioned by
AssoComunicazione. This is almost 9% of the Italian population that has used the Internet at least once in the last three months. The majority (83.4%) wants to meet new people and attributes specific functions to this instrument (nearly three per person). Reasons for using the networks include presenting a personal or professional profile and sharing videos and/or photos with others.
Nonetheless, the survey does not reveal the presence of social networking tools in didactics, a phenomenon that is qualitative rather than qualitative. During the Fifth Thematic Week organised by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale at the
Città Educativa of Rome and dedicated to cooperative learning, scholls proposed several initiatives for the use of the new social networking tools. The De Filippo School in Guidonia illustrated the
Cooperative growing Project, an excellent case study that has been inserted in the Fondazione Mondo Digitale’s
On-line Learning environment.
Tools such as
instant messaging,
blogs and
forums, if used responsibly, are extraordinary working tools to create learning and cooperation communities. This has also been experimented in developing countries. Amongst the winners of the fourth edition of the
Global Junior Challenge, the
Digital Inclusion for Social Inclusion Project created by the
Cdi of Montevideo in Uruguay, provided new arenas for socialising and learning on-line. Thirty schools have already joined this virtual citizenship working on-line to create unconventional cooperative learning and training experiences where pupils become trainers.
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