Budapest. Aladdin is an IT lab at the State University of Milan and it is the winner of the Best Practices in Education Award 2016, annually awarded by Informatics Europe, the organisation that unites the IT academic community in Europe. The ALaDDIn lab achieved this prestigious recognition thanks to results obstained in changing the perception towards IT in schools, demonstrating how computational skills can be fun in addition to a powerful technical resource to solve problems with. Since 2011, ALaDDIn brings IT into school through “algomotricity” which presents an IT process through motor or manipulatory activities using a certain form of dramatization. ALaDDIn has involved nearly 3,000 students in secondary schools. The Best Practices in Education Award was given during the European Computer Science Summit 2016L of Informatics Europe held in Budapest in recent days. (9colonne)
