GOLD:a ten-year database of school

best practices

Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell’Autonomia Scolastica (former INDIRE)

www.indire.it

Antonella TurchiSilvia Panzavolta

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

THE GOLD Database on educational best practices, http://gold.indire.it/gold2/

VIDEO repository

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

THE GOLD Database on educational best practices, http://gold.indire.it/gold2/

News on national/local training and dissemination initiatives

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

THE GOLD Database on educational best practices, http://gold.indire.it/gold2/

Online material on educational documentation and on project participation/tools etc.

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

Type of users

• Teachers of every educational level and school type (new teachers and in-service teachers)

• Head-teachers• Teachers trainers/e-tutors• Students• School personnel• Parents• Other professionals working with the

school• Educational sciences researchers

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

Type of information• Project descriptions (from planning to

outcomes)• Students’ material• Evaluation material• Communities• Social networks• Educational material (LOs, exercises,

images, ICT tools an tutorials)

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

Type of information: some examples

Educational game

Chemistry test

Webquest

Lesson plan

Learning unit

Teaching training material

Tutorial material for english teaching on

Moodle

Best practice description on a web 2.0 platform

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Flow of information/knowledge construction and

architecture

• Bottom-up: the information/knowledge is selected, collected and described by users (mainly teachers), then it is judged by experts (generally university teachers or regional research centers researchers) and afterwards it is offered to users

• Full-text database

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Information description

• The information is described through metadata

• The metadata schema is a subset of LOM

• The repository has a subject indexing through the LRE thesaurus

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LRE descriptors The LRE thesaurus has been developed by INDIRE, initially in 5 languages.Now the thesaurus has 19 language versions.It is used in the largest EU repository (LRE portal) and by national repositories too (i.e. Ireland, Austria, Israel, Italy)

THE GOLD Database on educational best practices, http://gold.indire.it/gold2/

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

Types of search

• Google-type: free search on semantically relevant fields

• Advanced search• Search through authority files

(school type, keywords, student age, region)

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

Types of searchGoogle search

Search through keyword

Advanced search on LOs

Advanced search on best practices

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DRM policy

Indire is applying Creative Commons licenses to the GOLD database documentation and states that teachers who candidate their practices guarantee for what there are uploading

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Partnership

• Regional research agencies• Universities and Academic consortia• Local school authorities• Public training centers

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

Levels of the database

• National level• 18 Regional levels• Minority language

level (at present, only 3 minority languages: Frulan, Slovenian and German)

Minority language level

Regional level

National level

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

Training

• Training/information on educational documentation is provided: – in each region (18 in Italy +2) on a

blended or face2face mode– on an ANSAS dedicated elearning

platform– during national/interregional

conferences

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Content of training

• Multimedia language for education documentation

• Elements of documentation• Policy of multimedia content management• Use of other teachers practices• Use of the database• Use of project tools (i.e. hypertext generator,

video repository)

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

National projects using the GOLD model

Recently, the Ministry of education had adopted the GOLD model for many national projects such as the national project on Citizenship, on Music Education and within the School 2.0 and Interactive Whiteboard projects, thus widening the reach of the GOLD model

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Call for funds

• One every year, in June (when school year has finished)

• Contribution to schools: 3.000 € (1.000 € for the documentation work already done; 2.000 € for transforming the documentation into a multimedia product or – in case the documentation is already multimedia – for training other teachers

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Example of school documentation #1: social community with web TV

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

Example of school documentation #2:

docu-fiction

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

Example of school documentation #3:

hypermedia

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

Shift in the narratives of teachers’ documentation

Teachers are being trained to use multimedia in documentation.

This shift has several advantages:

• To allow teachers to use multimedia with a specific objective• To transfer the knowledge acquired in multimedia documentation to

everyday classes• To “force” team documentation, thus having a pool of documenting

teachers and not a lonely documenting teachers• To allow students’ participation in the process of documenting their

school experience (shared metacognition –> formative process)• To explore the new opportunities of the web

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7

Facts and figures• About 6,000 practices described + 7,000

LOs• 786 best practices selected• Around 500 hits/day on the GOLD national

site • Single statistics on each practice • Project started in 1999• Mentioned in a Florence University –

Faculty of social sciences - study as one of the 4 best projects in the public administration sector

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Thank you for your attention!

Antonella Turchia.turchi@indire.it

Silvia Panzavoltas.panzavolta@indire.it