Giovanni Fulantelli

• Computer Science
• Researcher at Italian National Research Council

Young people worldwide use social media. Besides the benefits, such as communication, entertainment, or social support, users also have to deal with negative incidents, such as cyberbullying and its serious consequences. One key factor in mitigating cyberbullying is empathy. Therefore, we developed an empathy training for adolescents, which is led...

Social media has a very important role in adolescents’ daily life, providing them with means for communicating, sharing, representing themselves and creating and maintaining relationships. However, social media can hide risks for the users which can undermine their mental well-being, especially amongst adolescents. The exploratory research presente...

The provision of toxic content and misinformation is a frequent phenomenon in current social media with specific impact and risks for younger users. We report on efforts taken in the project Courage to mitigate and overcome these threats through dedicated educational technology inspired by psychological and pedagogical approaches. The aim is to emp...

In a digitally led society, where social media consumption is constantly increasing, users are confronted not only with positive, but also with toxic content and dynamics like cyberbullying, racism, hate speech, or fake news [1,2,3]. Oftentimes, users are not aware of the severity (e.g., racist or homophobic comments) or level of manipulation (e...

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In this paper we present the results of a systematic review aimed at investigating what the literature reports on cyberbullying and cyberhate, whether and to what extent the connection between the two phenomena is made explicit, and whether it is possible to identify overlapping factors in the description of the phenomena. Specifically, for each of...

The abrupt interruption of face-to-face educational activities imposed by the Italian Government in response to the Covid-19 emergency required a rapid switch to remote schooling to guarantee continuity in education. This paper explores the family’s perception about the organization of remote schooling and its impact on learning. In particular, the...

In the last few years, many applications for mobile devices have been developed to support learning experiences both in formal and informal contexts. One of the main limits of these applications concerns the development of learning materials suitable for mobile learning contexts. In fact, learning content must be usually prepared in advance by teac...

The social environments based on the Web 2.0 paradigm have modified the way people behave on the Web. One of the direct consequences of this change is that the amount of online resources produced and shared by users has increased considerably. Amongst them, it is possible to find materials that can be exploited for educational purposes. For example...

This contribute investigates how Emergency Remote Education (ERE) impacted families during the spring 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, and in particular, the extent to which the impact of ERE on families, measured in terms of space and equipment sharing, moderates the effect of student and family characteristics on students' engagement. The study derived fr...

One of the playful activities used in education is the treasure hunt, a serious game that allows students to work cooperatively. This activity stimulates different cognitive processes connected to accurately reading the clues and understanding them, and extremely effective to elaborate a collaborative strategy necessary to find the hidden objects....

According to the Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory of human development ([1][2][3][4][5]), the development of each individual cannot be observed without considering its relationship with the development of other people and, above all, with the environment in which they live. The ecological orientation of Bronfenbrenner with respect to huma...

More and more often, search engines are used by students as a tool to access information on the Web. This has the potential to affect the learning activities conducted by students. In this paper, the project “In WWW veritas?” is presented. The project has the following objectives: (1) to investigate how searches carried out on the Web through searc...

Between 2014 and 2017, around 623,000 people arrived by sea in Italy. This has led to a huge problem for guarantee quality instruction for migrants, especially young people; research carried out by UNICEF has shown that young migrants represent the desire to be able to resume regular education as soon as possible. The answer to these new education...

This paper presents the results of a project on Computational Thinking education for primary school pupils. During the project – called Computational Thinking for children education – 81 students from a primary school in Italy have been guided to the design and development of computer games through the Microsoft Kodu game development platform. Diff...

UNICEF, la Scuola di Lingua italiana per Stranieri (ITASTRA) dell'Università di Palermo e il Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche) stanno realizzando un progetto intitolato "Studiare Migrando". Tale progetto intende accompagnare i Minori Stranieri Non Ac-compagnati (MSNA) nel percorso educativo e, nello specific...

This paper presents the preliminary results of the project "Computational Thinking for children education", aimed at promoting computational thinking, creativity and learning amongst primary school children. The didactic activities of the project focus on computer programming and, in particular, the development of video games. The paper introduces...

Il contributo si inserisce nella discussione sulla nuova politica europea per l'immigrazione. L'obiettivo è quello di riflettere sugli effetti economici e sulle esigenze formative che ruotano intorno ai nuovi flussi di immigrazione forzata. Tale riflessione consente di ripensare al modo in cui è possibile fornire risposte nuove alle esigenze di una...

Search engines are the most utilized tools to access information on the Web. The success of large companies such as Google owes to their capacity to conduct users through the vast troves of knowledge and information online. Recently, the concept of search as research has been used to shift the research focus from workings of information-seeking too...

Throughout the last few years, the scale and diversity of datasets published according to Linked Data (LD) principles has increased and also led to the emergence of a wide range of data of educational relevance. However, sufficient insights into the state, coverage and scope of available educational Linked Data seem still missing. In this work, we...

Questo studio pilota presenta un esempio di laboratorio per la didattica della matematica adatto al primo ciclo di istruzione. Il laboratorio utilizza l’ambiente di programmazione per videogiochi Kodu Game Lab (KGL) come strumento per proporre agli allievi un problema di matematica da risolvere attraverso la realizzazione di un videogioco. L’esperi...

Learning Analytics in Mobile Learning is a challenging research topic, due to the distinguishing features of mobile learning. In fact, mobile learning is characterized by the learners’ mobility, the possibility of having localized data and information, the large amount of data that can be collected during a learning session, the affordances provide...

The diversity of datasets published according to Linked Data (LD) principles has increased in the last few years and also led to the emergence of a wide range of data suitable in educational settings. However, sufficient insights into the state, coverage and scope of available educational Linked Data seem to be missing, for instance, about represen...

Teaching methods have to continuously change and adapt to suit the needs, and meet the expectations, of our information society. Whether we willingly accept this or not this revolution is happening. There is a new generation of students living amongst us - those born after 1980 - and now called the Net Generation. These students learn and communica...

In this paper we present MeLOD, a mobile learning environment which exploits the huge amount of dataset in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud to provide contextualized and updated information based on students' location. The position of the student, sent by the mobile device, is used to interlink Geonames, DBpedia and Europeana datasets in order to p...

In this paper we propose an overview of Learning Analytics approaches in the context of Open education in its most recent developments related to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Linked Data (LD), both strictly interconnected to the Open Educational Resources (OERs) concept. The MOOCs have developed as a seamless integration of different sol...

Integrating specific technology-enhanced learning activities in a traditional curriculum is an important challenge in CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) scenarios. As a matter of fact, monitoring student learning by means of formative assessment practices is successfully used to supervise learning progress and to recognise students' ef...

Mobile learning has reached a considerable level of maturity in recent years, and its role is widely acknowledged in school contexts, university, vocational training, formal and non-formal learning settings, and more generally as an opportunity for lifelong learning. Despite its maturity, evaluation of mobile learning remains an open research issue...

The social web paradigm has modified the way people behave on the Web. Amongst the many consequences of this change the amount of online resources directly produced and shared by users has increased considerably. In this scenario the importance of methods to evaluate the educational relevance of the resources raises up. In this poster we propose an...

In questo articolo si propone una riflessione critica sull'uso delle tecnologie mobili per l'apprendimento, il cosiddetto mobile learning. A partire da una lunga esperienza sul campo, si analizza un progetto di mobile learning, il progetto MoULe (Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning), dalla fase di progettazione alla sua concreta sperimentazione in conte...

The focus of this chapter is on "key issues for fostering OER communities of practices with teachers". It is based on the successful experiences of three European funded projects: SLOOP, TENEGEN, and SLOOP2DESC.These three projects draw on the concept of Open Education as well as on the Open and Free Software movements. The original idea behind the...

The focus of this chapter is on “key issues for fostering OER communities of practice with teachers.” It is based on the successful experiences of three European funded projects: SLOOP, TENEGEN, and SLOOP2DESC. These three projects draw on the concept of open education as well as on the open and free software movements. The original idea behind the...

In questo articolo vengono presentati alcuni dei risultati del progetto MOTILL. MOTILL, ovvero “Le Tecnologie Mobili nell’apprendimento permanente: buone pratiche”, è un progetto finanziato dalla Comunità Europea, nell’ambito del National Lifelong Learning Strategies (NLLS). Il progetto, durato un anno terminato a Marzo 2010, si è focalizzato sull’...

What moves the young Italian school graduates to enroll at the university? What are the reasons why a growing number of students prefer universities outside their own region? These are the questions that we aim to answer in this paper, taking into account the territorial differences in Italy. The estimated probit models show that, with respect to t...

Since the Internet era began, a growing number of innovations have impacted our society, and they are rapidly transforming the way in which people work, study and communicate. Web 2.0, social network and social web are all terms used to indicate a change in the role of ‘networks’ within society, rather than a technological evolution. This develop...

p>Web 2.0 applications and the increasingly use of social networks have been creating new informal learning opportunities. Students interact and collaborate using new learning environments which are structurally different from traditional e-learning environments. In these informal unstructured learning contexts the boundaries between the learning c...

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In: ICVL 2010 - 5th International Conference On Virtual Learning. Models & methodologies, technologies, software solutions. Phase II-Period 2010-2020: e-Skills for the 21st Century (Targu Mures, Romania, 29-31 October 2010). Proceedings, pp. 226 - 230. M. Pogonariu (ed.). Bucharest University Press, 2010.

In: IHEPI - From higher education to innovation. Management and entrepreneurship in a changing market (Budapest, 6-8 september 2010). Proceedings, pp. 143 - 151. A. Klucznik-Toro, K. Bodis, I. Kis Pl (eds.). Publikon PublisherslIDResearch Ltd, 2010.

In: MELLearN - 6th Hungarian National and International Lifelong Learning Conference University of Pecs (Pecs, 29-30 april 2010). Proceedings, pp. 428 - 435. Bényei, Jozsefné (eds.). REXPO Kft, 2010.

In: TD-Tecnologie Didattiche, vol. 49 (2) pp. 62 - 64. Metacognizione e ambienti per l'apprendimento. CNR-Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattcihe (ed.). Edizioni Menabò, 2010.

In this paper we illustrate a dynamic approach in the use of the metadata and

Over the last decade the Italian university system has been subject to a remarkable reform. The number of courses has increased over time; registrations of news students have been rising more than 13 per cent, despite the Italian unemployment rate of graduates remains above the European average. In this new context, characterized by a growing compe...

The informal learning opportunities created by the Web 2.0 applications and the increasingly use of social networks, allow users to interact and collaborate in new ways. Students use new learning environments which are structurally different from traditional e-learning environments, in which the boundaries between the learning contexts and social s...

In: ICVL 2009 - The 4th International Conference on Virtual Learning : VIRTUAL LEARNING - VIRTUAL REALITY (Bucarest, 30 October-1 November 2009 (IASI, 30 October-1 November 2009). Proceedings, pp. 257 - 264. University of Bucharest and Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi, 2009.

In: ICL2009 - International Conference ICL 2009 : The challenges of life long learning (Villach, Austria, 23-25 September 2009). Proceedings, pp. 665 - 674. Auer, Michael E (eds.). International Association of Online Engineering, 2009.

In: ICVL 2009 - The 4th International Conference on Virtual Learning (Iasi, 30 October-1 November 2009). Proceedings, pp. 348 - 356. University of Bucharest and Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi, 2009.

In: ICL 2009 - International Conference : The Challenges of Life Long Learning (Villach, Austria, 23-25 September 2009). Proceedings, pp. 675 - 680. Auer, Michael E (eds.). International Association of Online Engineering, 2009.

In: ICVL 2009 - The 4th International Conference on Virtual Learning : VIRTUAL LEARNING - VIRTUAL REALITY (Bucarest, 30 October-1 November 2009). Proceedings, pp. 91 - 97. University of Bucharest and Gh. Asachi Tehnical University of Iasi, 2009.

In: MOLeNET 2009 - Mobile learning conference 2009: Share best practice, hear the Latest developments and discover what the future holds for mobile learning (London, 1 December 2009). Abstract, pp. 60 - 61. Jamila, Jones (eds.). LSN, 2009.

Despite the growth of e-learning, in Italy the number of students enrolling in uni- versity on line courses still remains very low. In this paper we report on the methodology and the results of a survey carried out at the Institute for Educational Technology of the Italian National Research Council, involving 1100 students in the final year of seco...

Nel corso dell'ultimo decennio l'università italiana è stata oggetto di una profonda riforma. I corsi universitari sono più che triplicati, gli immatricolati sono aumentati più del 13%, nonostante il tasso di disoccupazione dei laureati italiani permane superiore alla media europea. In questo nuovo contesto, destinato a registrare una pressione com...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the use of multimodal interfaces as an opportunity for students involved in mobile learning activities to enhance their didactic experience. The MoULe (Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning) system, a technological platform that we developed in order to support on-site learning experiences through handheld devices,...

In: Journal of Interactive Media in Education, vol. May pp. 1 - 11. JIME Editors and Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK, 2008.

Marking everything with a name, attaching a description to each node of an information space, is a way to classify resources by the use of informally assigned tags. With the advent of the Web 2.0, we need to reconsider navigation strategies and how social software (e.g. wiki, blog, rss, social bookmarking) can support users in the navigation of inf...

In: Emerging educational technologies and practices. pp. 53 - 65. M. Allegra, G. Fulantelli, M. Gentile, D. Taibi (eds.). Palermo: CNR-ITD, 2008.

In: Laboratori di tecnologie didattiche: esplorare metodi e tecnologie per l'insegnamento e l'apprendimento. pp. 23 - 35. G. Chiazzese and S. Ottaviano and M. Arrigo and A. Chifari and L. Seta (eds.). Palermo: CNR-Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche, 2008.

In: Tecnologie didattiche, vol. 44 (2) pp. 44 - 56. Dossier Mobile Learning. Menabò edizioni, 2008.

In: TD-Tecnologie Didattiche, vol. 44 (2) pp. 44 - 56. Dossier Mobile Learning. CNR-Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche, 2008.

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In this paper we present the results of research work, that forms part of the activities of the EU-funded project SLOOP: Sharing Learning Objects in an Open Perspective, aimed at encouraging the definition, development and management of Open Educational Resources based on the Learning Object paradigm (Wiley, 2000). We present a model of Open Learni...

In this paper we present the results of research work, that forms part of the activities of the EU-funded project SLOOP: Sharing Learning Objects in an Open Perspective, aimed at encouraging the definition, development and management of Open Educational Resources based on the Learning Object paradigm (Wiley, 2000). We present a model of Open Learni...

According to the social constructivism paradigm, knowledge is not transferred from teachers to students, but is the result of collaborative activities; when these activities take place in a mobile environment, it is extremely important to consider how the temporal and spatial factors can influence the collaborative process. In this work we define a...

In the framework of the EU-funded SLOOP Project, Sharing Learning Objects in an Open perspective, we have developed FreeLOms, a Learning Object Management System aimed at managing learning objects according to the new OpenLO model. In this work we present our proposal for extracting semantic relations from the structure of existing SCORM-compliant...

In this paper we present an experience of mobile learning based on collaborative knowledge construction processes. The experience is based on the use of a learning platform, called the MoULe environment, designed and developed at the Italian National Research Council. Amongst the many functionalities provided by the MoULe environment, we highlight...

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This paper presents the Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning project (MoULe). This project aims to support students using context sensitive handheld devices in collaborative knowledge construction. To achieve this aim, a learning platform called the MoULe environment has been designed, which permits users to edit and share documents and conceptual maps u...