Digital soft skills and teaching. Macro data analysis of school survey

This proposal is part of the contemporary debate on the integration of digital systems in school educational environments, paying particular attention to the capacity for integration and educational experimentation of media devices in terms of teaching methodologies and inclusion strategies. Starting from the national framework of digital integration in the Italian education system through the PNSD and the sharing of the European framework on digital skills, identified with the DIGCOMP EDU, the objective of this presentation is to investigate the impact of international and national education policies on the practices of Italian teachers, in terms of digital skills applied to the context of the class. From the methodological perspective, the survey is one of the tools presented in this conference to investigate some dimensions of digital competence in sampled teachers, such as the type of media access, critical analysis, creative production, awareness, with particular reference to the teaching strategies activated at school, and the digital competence of citizenship. The proposal intends to reflect on the statistical elaborations and data analysis of this first part of the research work, proposing an international comparison with the suggestions of the European DIGCOMP EDU framework. Through the presentation of the first research results of this research project, Towards the Digital School (2018), the paper will build a first picture of the inclusion of digital in the teaching practices of a sample of about 700 teachers involved at a national level, coming from 31 secondary schools of 15 Italian regions. Specifically, the influence of social determinants on digital skills and the use of digital as a specific teaching methodology will be investigated, as well as technological support, and the type and level of application of technologies in teaching practices and management of teaching activities within the school.