One of the novelties at this year’s Più libri più liberi, the National Fair for Small and Medium-sized Publishers, were the meetings dedicated to professional updating for educators and trainers.
And amongst the protagonists of the "Invitation to Read Augmented and Alternative Communication: activities and books for autistic children in schools and libraries " (Dec. 6) there was Carlotta Malavasi who presented the works and experience of European Project MaTHiSiS - Managing Affective-learning THrough Intelligent atoms and Smart InteractionS.
Eleonora Curatola, who coordinated the student area in the Rome Libraries for the Fondazione Mondo Digitale [see news: Books on the Move], interviewed one of the “supporting mothers” (as Carlotta Malavasi terms herself), an enthusiast of adaptive didactics.
Project MaTHiSiS - Managing Affective-learning THrough Intelligent atoms and Smart InteractionS, financed by the European Commission as part of Programme Horizon2020 ICT 2015– Information and Communication Technologies, aims to develop a system/product for the professional and curricular training of individuals with intellectual disabilities that have been identified, but not yet diagnosed. The project consortium features 18 partners from 9 European countries: Spain, France, Greece, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Germany, and Lithuania.
