Connected parents

Civilisation

Digital literacy: understanding technology will help parents understand their children

Initially, the project involved 80 parents of students of the G. Galileo Comprehensive School (a combined primary and secondary school), which under the guidance of Professors Paolo Ferri and Stefano Moriggi explored technologies, languages, central characters and web games, focusing on new skills and new tools for a better relationship with their kids. From March to May 2017, five schools and a total of 400 parents were involved. Subsequently the project was extended to all twelve schools in the city, with the goal of increasing, from 2017 to 2018, participation to up to 1,000 parents. To achieve this, 30 digital facilitators (teachers, educators, volunteer citizens with digital skills) were trained at Unimore, the University of Modena and Reggio.