4 ^th LEARNING, TEACHING AND TRAINING (LTT) MEETING ACTIVITIES

Montefiascone, Italy

The LTTA in Italy (Montefiascone VT) has taken place from February 27^th to March 4^th 2022.

Twenty students and nine teachers from the partner schools have participated to the activities and seventeen students and four teachers have organized and attended the activities for our school (IISS C.A. Dalla Chiesa).

Different activities for teachers and students have been organized as follows:

On the first day’s activities

• Teachers have attended a 3 hours workshop on the subject “Structural Coding and Jacopini’s Theorem” held by the hosting school IT teachers;

• Students have been engaged in a short workshop on public speaking, TED talks and Debate techniques, followed by a conference style 8 minutes speech on the topic “What can robots teach us about being human?”

On the second day’s activities both students and teachers have participated in a two hours workshop about “Transforming algorithms into games” held by the hosting school IT teachers.

On the third day’s activity students and teachers have visited the https://www.fablabroma.it/on/fablab-viterbo/ which is a private structure managed by a network of private and independent companies, which offers services to promote the Digital Transition of companies and public agencies. They provide training on all technologies related to digital innovation by involving specialized companies which are able to bring in professional teachers, constantly updated and avant-garde, both on the topics subject of training and teaching methods.

There they have worked on Scratch.

The following day students and teachers have visited the Università degli Studi della Tuscia di Viterbo (http://www.unitus.it/ ) where they have been welcomed at the DEIM Department http://www.unitus.it/en/dipartimento/deim where professors and lecturers have shown them the laboratories and how they work. A part of the visit has been devoted to the professional guidance, giving the students tips and advice on how to build their future career as university students and professionals, later on in their lives.

Several school trips to Montefiascone’s surroundings have been organized by the hosting school with the purpose of letting the students from the partner countries know more about the territory, its history, traditions and art.

They have visited Montefiascone’s best landmarks and monuments (Saint Flaviano Church, Saint Margherita Cathedral, The Rocca dei Papi fortress) witnessing the town history between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

SEE links

https://www.iluoghidelsilenzio.it/basilica-di-san-flaviano-montefiascone-vt/

https://montefiascone.artecitta.it/en/church-cathedral-of-saint-margherita/

https://www.retedimorestorichelazio.it/dimora/vt/montefiascone/rocca-dei-papi/

A second trip has led students and teachers to the province capital city: Viterbo and one of its most beautiful examples of historical mansions Villa Lante.

SEE links

https://visit.viterbo.it/

http://www.polomusealelazio.beniculturali.it/index.php?en/243/villa-lante

On the third school trip the groups have visited Civita di Bagnoregio, a small village located on top of a tuff hill, 443 meters high, and is immersed in the wonderful Valle dei Calanchi. Today it is one of the most beautiful villages in Italy and is famous for being the dying city, the name given to it by the Italian writer Bonaventura Tecchi who spent his childhood here.

Its existence is severely tested by the continuous erosion of the tuffaceous hill on which it stands, caused by the action of the wind, the rains and the two small streams that flow along the valleys below. Just think that, every year, its walls are reduced by about 5/6 centimetres leaving the village in the balance between an unstable present and an uncertain future.

SEE link https://www.civita-di-bagnoregio.info/en/

Lastly we have visited the wonderful city of Orvieto where stunning art, history and literature are around every corner.

SEE link https://www.umbriatourism.it/en/orvieto

Paola Nardini

Coordinator in Montefiascone

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