Insegnare e imparare attraverso lo schermo : limiti e potenzialità della DAD.

In the Council Recommendation on key competences for lifelong learn- ing (2018), the European Council emphasised the importance of achieving basic skills (literacy, numeracy, digital skills) as a key for the development of the learning to learn competence in a lifelong perspective. Working from this assumption, this paper aims to focus on a fundamental basic skill, handwrit- ing, which has been examined in the manuscripts produced by two groups of 3rd graders before and after the distance learning occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic. The results show that distance learning has had a negative impact on the development and learning of handwriting. This is mainly due to the absence of a reliable model for designing teaching in online learning environments.

However, rather than merely labelling the distance learning experience as negative, this article aims to show that there can be meaning- ful opportunities, and for different school graders, if the blended learning paradigm is correctly intended and applied. [Publisher's text].