Plenary Lecture
Creating Inspiring Learning Environments by means of Digital Technologies
Professor Michele Della Ventura
Music Academy 'Studio Musica'
Italy
E-mail: dellaventura.michele@tin.it
Abstract: School finds itself operating in a world of communication that has in recent years been deeply changed by Web 2.0 and by the mobile devices, by the cloud and by mobile computing, a world in which technology ''migrates'' thanks to the mobile devices into our lives becoming a tool and space for the creation and circulation of culture. Starting from the obvious fact that these technologies were not devised and designed to be used in didactics but theyactually do contribute to all those informal learning paths that are typical of the current society of knowledge and they may me integrated in the creation and management of the educational environments, the question that must be asked is how to turn them into a learning environment. The main objective of this project was to check on and assess the impact of the use of the Social Media on the Mobile Phone in the students' learning process: increase the student's motivation in order to see if it corresponds to an improvement of his/her academic results.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Michele Della Ventura, professor of Music Technology, is a learning expert, researcher and instructional designer. His research interests include correlation between music and mathematics with a particular emphasis on artificial intelligence research in the field of computer-aided analysis of tonal music; intelligent systems; enhancing teaching and learning with technology; assessment for learning and strategies and models for the effective integration of technology into the curriculum at all academic levels. He is the author of several articles presented at many conferences and published in international science magazines and high school textbooks (also featured at the International Book Salon of Turin in 2012 and 2018). He proofreads articles and is a member of scientific committees in International Conferences. He was invited as keynote speaker to International Conferences in Italy, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Romania, Singapore, Spain, UK, US (Baltimora, Boston, Las Vegas, New York, Washington). Michele Della Ventura has also consulted on Big Data and Semantic Technology projects in Italy. Some of the projects include indexation of the symbolic level of musical text. He is currently involved in several researches related to technology supported learning for dyslexic students, learning through the use of social media and handheld technologies in a CLIL classroom and technology supported student’s music analysis and composition. He teaches Music Informatics in University courses at Music Academies and Conservatories and Musical Technologies in Music High Schools.