A brilliant teacher: every evening she sends a text message to her students. Along with the goodnight message, she teaches them an Italian word.

USING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES

Among the many undeserved and useless awards that go around Italy, a real one should be awarded, one that is earned for its genius, to the professor Carla RomoliAt 61, with the passion of a true teacher, approaching retirement, Romoli has given everyone a lesson in life, and in how small gestures can have great meaning.

Faced with the widespread use of electronic prostheses, which children use even late at night and in the middle of the night, Romoli, teacher di secondary school At the Lavinia Fontana Institute in Bologna, he reacted by moving from words to action. Instead of shouting himself hoarse with useless sermons, he turned the tables, demonstrating how schools can truly use the technology, also to stop its incorrect and compulsive use. Forget about smartphones in the classroom!

Our heroine sends a message every night WhatsApp to his students with a Goodnight message, adding the explanation of a word. He explains this in a one-line summary.significant use andsemantic originA lesson concentrated in a few moments, the ones in which kids usually fidget with messages that are just a waste of time.

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THE STORY OF TEACHER CARLA ROMOLI

Let's try to summarize the merits of this simple initiative. Among functionally illiterate people and those returning to Italy, half of the population he does not have the basic language skillsWe could also call them chronically ignorant. And Romoli raises a wall against this trend, tackling the problem at its root, when students' linguistic skills are still developing and evolving.

According to: we killed the ItalianWe've replaced it with a language, spoken and written, made up of acronyms, foreign words (usually mangled), insults and swear words, and internet slang. Everything but our wonderful language. And here too, Romoli is raising a wall against ignorance and seeking allies among young people.

TEACHING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA

Finally, to stop compulsive use di smartphone, cellulari, and tablets, prescriptions of various kinds are neither necessary nor sufficient. Nor should we give up, however. Better to go on the offensive, as our Emilian professor does, they launch an alternative proposal. To avoid wasting the value of WhatsApp and to preserve the meaning of words in our ancient and repressed Italian. With a simple Goodnight message.

(Cover image source: the Republic)

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