Florence: Corecom Toscana doubles the schools involved in the “Digital License”.

The commitment of the Corecom of Tuscany for the digital Patentino is renewed and strengthened, training and education project for digital citizenship aimed at first year middle school students, which this year doubles the number of classes in the Tuscan schools involved, from 25 to 50.

Project created by the Corecom of Tuscany in collaboration with the Tuscany Region, the Istituto degli Innocenti, the Postal Police and the Regional School Office, to whom today the Patentino Day was dedicated, a day of study and reflection on the results and its future prospects.

The initiative, which took place at Palazzo Bastogi, was attended, among others, by Marco Meacci, president of the Corecom of Tuscany, Maria Grazia Giuffrida, president of the lstituto degli Innocenti, Cristina Giachi, president of the Culture Commission of the Regional Council, Eugenio Giani, president of the Tuscany Region, Antonio Lezzi, member of the Pnrr support group for schools of the Regional School Office, Nicola Sansalone, deputy secretary of Agcom, Mario Staderini, of Agcom, Eva Claudia Cosentino, director of the Postal Police of Tuscany. The first A and first B classes of the Guido Marcelli Comprehensive Institute of Foiano della Chiana were present. Education Councilor Alessandra Nardini spoke remotely. Also in the audience was the regional councilor for digital transition, Stefano Ciuoffo.

The digital Patentino, created in 2019 on an experimental basis, has been fully operational since 2022 with a dedicated e-learning platform. In 2022-23 and 2023-24, 25 courses were held each year involving over 500 students, for a total of approximately 1200. For the 2024-2025 school year, there are 50 funded courses that are all starting, double compared to previous years.

"The theme of media education is central to our activity and in general to all Corecoms - he has declared the president of Corecom Marco Meacci -. Year after year we try to strengthen the Patentino Digitale project together with the Istituto degli Innocenti. This fall we doubled the number of classes and schools and we want to address the Tuscan kids, teachers and families. It is important that there is an intergenerational pact so that we can be fully aware of the use of these tools: being able to use them today means being full-fledged citizens".

"The idea that Corecom interprets very well is that of teaching how to have a critical relationship with digital media, to use them while being cautious about the conditioning aspects that undermine relationships. - he has declared the president of the Culture Commission of the Regional Council Cristina Giachi -. Its validity is demonstrated by the success achieved in recent years, the continuous request to expand the offer of the Digital License and the resulting training for teachers and students. Institutions must help citizens to better experience the complex world around them, they must not limit themselves to prohibiting without explaining and without teaching. In this they have a fundamental educational function, which Corecom Toscana interprets very well".

A project, that of the Digital Patentino, defined as a best practice in Italy by Mario Staderini, of Agcom, who recalled how “the Communications Authority has adopted guidelines to enable the development of similar digital citizenship pathways throughout Italy”.

In addition to training and education in digital citizenship, the project also includes a research and monitoring aspect, as explained by Sara Ferruzzi, project manager of the Innocenti Institute.The project allows us to have a snapshot of students' habits in using the Internet. The 2023 data are in line with those of the previous year - he has declared - 80 percent of the sample of male and female students have a personal smartphone and over 40 percent have a tablet. The kids use the internet mainly to watch videos and chat”. Ferruzzi He then added that the project was effective in terms of learning but not only: “after the digital license, the kids recognize that the ways of using the internet have improved".

The President of the Tuscany Region Eugenio Giani highlighted how the use of digital infrastructure offers extraordinary potential, but at the same time presents many risks. “The fact of being able to educate children to use these tools is one of the most important educational functions that we can pass on to the new generations. – he said – . I am therefore proud that Corecom is offering them a critical capacity for reflection and direction.".

Antonio Lezzi, member of the Pnrr support group of the Regional School Office, underlined how schools are invested with a very important role "which is to ferry the entire school community in this transition phase towards a new digital dimension, today inseparable from the real one".

Eva Claudia Cosentino, director of the Cyber ​​Security Operations Center for Tuscany, he explained how the role of the Postal Police is to intervene in case of need, but also "to try to prevent very unpleasant situations” and recalled how minors themselves can contact the police directly through the portal https://www.commissariatodips.it/

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