It looks like a sheet and like a sheet you can draw with a pencil and color with your hands. Instead it is a sort of luminous image, the projection of a computer being worked on as if on a canvas, a computer that records what has been done and stores it in its digital memory. And since we're talking about computers, it does much more: it allows multiple people to work on the same image from different locations, it's able to read objects, reproduce them and print them in 3D. It is the new frontier put in place for the children by the Golinelli factory in Bologna, the result of a collaboration with HP which supplies the technology. In the proper language it is called Learning Studio and is the first in Europe to be hosted in the spaces of a private foundation.
The installation, created in collaboration with Intel and HP's partner Media Direct, thus adds to the global HP project "Reinvent the Classroom", designed to enable innovations in training and digital solutions in the education sector, helping to transform school teaching and learning around the world.
“Opificio Golinelli aspires to become one of the main training hubs, entrepreneurial culture and scientific and technological research in Italy and in Europe - explains Antonio Danieli, Director General of the Golinelli Foundation - the intervention model is characterized by the establishment of a single ecosystem with the entire integrated chain of training, research, technology transfer , enterprise and dissemination. This ecosystem is dutifully open to contamination at a local, national and international level. The activation of the collaboration between the Golinelli Foundation and HP fits into this context, which will make it possible to offer young talents an original and specific educational contribution, of technology and know-how that only a large world leader company in its reference sector, can offer: a specific added value of innovation in our area for which we thank HP".
The Golinelli Foundation thus becomes part of the 85 realities, at a global level, to operate as a research hub Learning Studio, favoring the creation of an innovative vision for the school of the future. Born in Bologna in 1988 by the will of the entrepreneur and philanthropist Marino Golinelli, the Emilian institution is today a unique example in Italy of a fully operational private foundation, inspired by the model of American philanthropic foundations, which deals in an integrated way with education, training and culture to promote the intellectual and ethical growth of young people and society. "Thanks to the precious collaboration with the Golinelli Foundation, today we have the possibility of extending an innovative project such as Reinvent the Classroom to an important area of the Italian territory - says - Tino Canegrati, CEO, HP Italy - The installation of this Learning Studio well represents our vision of an innovative ecosystem and a concrete example of HP's commitment in the world of education, in line with the recent agreement signed with the MIUR and in continuity with the National Digital School Plan.
With this initiative, HP intends to inspire and support Italian teachers and students with the best innovative technology, enabling the increasingly necessary digital transformation for the skills of the future in our country".
The Learning Studio comes with solutions like 3 Sprout by HP, 15 convertible laptops powered by Intel, 3 capture stages and a campus print 3D printer powered by Media Direct, plus software and guides for educators.
Over the next few months, the initiative will involve various schools and training organizations in the Bologna area who have chosen to approach this innovative educational project to develop new ways of learning and teaching. This opportunity allows teachers and young students to test themselves in an educational environment 4.0, in which involvement, collaboration and immersive experiences are made possible by technology capable of enabling a higher level of training and digital transformation.
Digital Promise Global, a non-profit organization that works to stimulate innovation in teaching and to improve learning opportunities around the world, will lead the project and support the teachers and students involved in the program. A first phase of training has already been carried out on creative teaching and design thinking, using the extraordinary potential of HP Sprout as a tool to maximize innovation in innovative teaching. Thanks to the technological tools at their disposal, students will be engaged in activities and projects that will allow them to acquire new digital skills such as social innovation, design and computational thinking, the skills to innovate, build and share and social entrepreneurship.
Reinvent the Classroom is a project of HP born to inspire innovation in education and next generation learning experiences, thanks to solutions from HP. Reinvent the Classroom aims to install state-of-the-art Learning Studios in over 70 schools around the world to support advanced blended learning, international collaboration and the movement of leaders in the education sector. Through tools like Microsoft Office 365, Skype and HP Adaptive Learning, these schools will help define the future of learning.
