Canale Web Aerospaziale
New method of learning in aerospace field
The "Canale Web Aerospaziale" has been devised to spread the technical - scientific knowledge among young people and facilitate their approach to subjects provided in the courses of scientific Faculties, also in consideration of the fact that the number of this type of students is in constant decline in Italy. The promoters of the project are the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Center for Aerospace Research (CIRA) which, in the school year 2003 - 2004, have experimented by the aid of MIUR (Italian Department for University and Research) the "Canale Web Aerospaziale" and set up a portal addressed to 50 high schools across the Italian territory. The 50 Italian schools have received via satellite six training modules as a whole including images and interactive activities. Throughout the school year the "Canale Web Aerospaziale" portal (www.spazioallescuole.it), has been implemented giving access to the Aerospace Web Channel and providing schools and students with a forum for discussions, also fit with an archive of the training modules provided and of an aerospace library and a gallery of images.
The project teaching strategies are based on a pragmatic approach which lets the students practically experience the basic scientific phenomena, inducing them to behave and act as true researchers. The strategy is the following: the students are induced to confront themselves with a complex phenomenon and by adequate guide they are solicited to induce the causes of it. Visits of research centres are included in the programme.
It is now online the second edition of Canale Web Aerospaziale, an educational project by the Italian Space Agency and CIRA (Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali).
"Canale Web Aerospaziale", the website