Program Overview

544MM: Educational Technologies for Inclusion

The program "Didactic Technologies for Inclusion" is based on the concept "Everyone Grows Only if Dreamed" by Danilo Dolci.

Practical information

• The course is led by Teacher in charge Barbara Leporini, co-teacher, and teacher of the Susanna Pelagatti Laboratory.
• Office hours are by appointment, to be arranged via email.
• The course schedule for the first semester is Tuesdays, 10:15-11:45 (room L polo Fibonacci), with simultaneous online sessions on Teams (Course Team): TEAMS channel.
• The course repository is located on Google Drive.

Urgent alerts

All urgent notices will be posted on the official Moodle course bulletin board.

Educational material

Course materials will be provided in correspondence with the lessons and exercises.

Texts for further information

The following texts are recommended for further study, but not mandatory:

• Manual by Cottini and Vivanti on activities for high and low functioning autistic children
• Micheli, towards autonomy, TEACCH activity manual
• Lucio Cottini, Special Teaching and Scholastic Integration
• A new book by Dario Ianes (available for free download) on the role of the support teacher in light of the new law under discussion

Exam

The exam consists of designing an Inclusive Didactic Unit that uses the technological tools seen in class, starting from a PEI provided by the teachers. The project can be carried out in pairs. The exam will consist of a 20-minute presentation of the UDI and questions on the entire program covered during the course.

• The presentation slides must be accessible (according to the methods discussed in the course) and delivered to the teachers at least two days before the presentation by email or in a shared folder provided by the teachers.
• Exam modalities:
  • Seminar at the end of the course: The last lessons of the course (May 2026) are dedicated to student presentations.
  • Seminar during one of the exam sessions: To be held by appointment with the teacher during one of the regular exam sessions.