Andrea Mangiatordi

• PhD
• Research Associate at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Numerous research studies show that mindfulness can mitigate the negative impact of trauma on mental health by reducing symptoms of anxiety, mediating the relationship between trauma exposure and mental health, and treating symptoms resulting from traumatic events. During the COVID-19 pandemic, which was considered a traumatic event, the wellbeing...

Navigating the web represents a complex cognitive activity that requires effective integration of different stimuli and the correct functioning of numerous cognitive abilities (including attention, perception, and working memory). Despite the potential relevance of the topic, numerous limitations are present throughout the literature about the cogn...

This research is a part of the Erasmus+ internationally funded InDo research project, involving a consortium led by an Italian higher education institution. An objective of the project is to include desk and field research on the topics of Understanding by Design and Differentiated Instruction, which led to this article having been produced, for kn...

A linguistic and cultural discontinuity between home and school can create tensions, affect family engagement with schools and teachers, and interfere with children's learning. Parent- and family-focused interventions for families with young children can play an important role in positively addressing diversity. This study brings together the work...

The chapter elaborates on values, concepts, and processes that lead to sensitive design of online and offline modes of collaborative action to tackle inequalities in the incorporation of existing resilient competencies of people involved in searching for such solutions embedded in the existing geopolitical and microsocial contexts. After introducin...

During the COVID-19 emergency, between March and May 2020, Italy was in an almost complete lockdown situation and millions of Italian children of all ages, overnight, stopped going to school and started receiving telematic communications from teachers or educators. Lockdown and distance learning had a significant impact on the overall well-being of...

The overall aim of WP5 is to identify effective strategies for professional development that take into account new approaches to professional learning, i.e. virtual learning and team-based models of learning, and that focus specifically on increasing cultural and linguistic awareness among professionals in their work with culturally and linguistica...

The inclusive potential of digital technologies in educational contexts is well represented by multimodal communication: the use of different channels and strategies can lower barriers to participation and improve the overall quality of educational intervention. This presentation will focus on the issues and challenges encountered while developing...

Universal Design has been studied and applied in Education for some decades now, yet it seems still far from becoming a standard in instructional design practices. Teaching educators and prospective teachers how to make a curriculum accessible to students with different needs seems to be a priority, as making instruction more and more accessible an...

Universal Design has been studied and applied in Education for some decades now, yet it seems still far from becoming a standard in instructional design practices. Teaching educators and prospective teachers how to make a curriculum accessible to students with different needs seems to be a priority for making instruction more and more accessible an...

L' uso che si può fare delle tecnologie nella didattica è vario, così come sono molto diversi i contesti in cui ci si può trovare ad operare. Questo dipende da molteplici aspetti, spesso derivanti dal fatto di coinvolgere persone portatrici di concezioni, pratiche ed abilità diverse. Un elemento che invece rimane costante, a prescindere dalla situa...

The World Wide Web is a place where people can shop, read articles, search for information of all kinds. Like other activities that are carried out by people offline, browsing the Web involves very complex cognitive processes. According to the Cognitive Load Theory, the human cognitive capacity is limited to processing a few pieces of information a...

Since the end of 2015 the Italian school system has been enriched by the introduction of a national plan aiming at the development of initiatives based on digital technologies in all the schools of the country. One of its first results is the appearance of a new role that a teacher can assume in his/her school: its main responsibilities are towards...

This paper presents and discusses data on the use of technology in general and of Web 2.0 platforms and services in particular by students at the University of Milano-Bicocca. The data was obtained from a survey on media consumption habits and usage of new web technologies conducted by the university's Observatory on New Media, NuMediaBiOs. Researc...

Universal Design for Learning is a framework proposing a set of guidelines for making learning more accessible to all learners, focusing on the concept of variability. By supporting information deconding, strategic thinking and engagement, UDL guidelines provide educators with a methodology for the creation and the evaluation of inclusive lesson pl...

Facebook is the most popular social network site in Italy, and its usage is particularly spread among younger generations. This paper explores how undergraduate students use Facebook, and what meanings they attach to it. Research was performed in 2008 and in 2009 at a Italian university, with a triangulation of quantitative and qualitative methodol...

Gender has now ceased to influence Internet access and frequency of use, especially among youths. However, self-efficacy in digital skills, content production and Internet uses are still associated with gender. For that reason, this article uses data from a survey conducted in a university in Northern Italy to explore if male and female undergradua...

Facebook is the most popular social network site in Italy, and its usage is particularly spread among younger generations. This paper explores how undergraduate students use Facebook, and what meanings they attach to it. Research was performed in 2008 and in 2009 at a Italian university, with a triangulation of quantitative and qualitative methodol...

It Quanto vale un e-book? Quale valore percepisce chi compra e usa gli e-book? Comprare un libro o un e-book e una scelta che i lettori oggi si trovano a fare quotidianamente: la diffusione degli e-book reader a prezzi accessibili e la proposta sempre piu varia dei piccoli e grandi editori sta cambiando la percezione del valore commerciale dell'ogg...

In recent times many developing countries have adopted a one‐to‐one model for distributing computers in classrooms. Among the various effects that such an approach could imply, it surely increases the availability of computer‐related Assistive Technology at school and provides higher resources for empowering disabled children in their learning and...

It In questo articolo illustreremo i risultati della nostra ricerca empirica, svolta dal gruppo di lavoro dell’Osservatorio sui Nuovi Media NuMediaBiOs (www.numediabios.eu) sulla dieta mediale dei giovani universitari italiani. Presenteremo alcuni dati in prospettiva diacronica, essendo ormai giunti alla terza edizione di questa ricerca. La prima r...

Traditionally, Assistive Technology is deeply linked to the particular system on which a single solution runs. Cloud computing seems to be a promising approach, since solutions and services are no longer tied to a particular system. The Farfalla project is a step towards cloud-based Assistive Technology, for the creation of an inclusive web where a...

University students with learning or sensorial disability often face huge difficulties in accessing campus facilities and, specifically, lectures. Many universities over a wide range of support services to overcome such issues, but this is not always enough. This paper presents CATS, an ongoing research project involving three Italian universities,...

This paper envisions a software project dedicated to disabled children with communication impairments or restrictions. The idea is to develop a costless and functional communication aid capable of voice output. This software could be a very convenient solution if used on the laptops provided by One Laptop Per Child to children in different developi...

In this paper we present and analyze some of the main results obtained by the empirical research carried out within the scope of the Socrates Grundtvig Project "Memory Line", that aimed at developing instruments and methodologies in order to help overcoming the intergenerational divide. The project aimed at training groups of elderly and young citi...

In the Knowledge Society great importance is given to sharing knowledge and information. The ICTs not only provide a very efficient infrastructure for this task, they also have radically changed the way we interact and access information. This effect is even more consistent among the younger generations, who were born and raised in an era when netw...

Developments in information and communication technologies have raised the issue of how a kind of intergenerational digital divide can take place between “digital natives” and “digital immigrants”. This can in turn have important consequences for the organization of educative systems. In this paper we present the result of a research performed duri...

In this paper we present Farfalla, a web tool designed to support people with various limitations, ranging between mobility problems and visual impairments. The main goal of Farfalla is to integrate typical Assistive Technology functionalities into a web-based platform in order to enable users with disabilities to browse web pages and to fill forms...