I am a tenured teacher in upper secondary school, middle school educator, trainer and I am responsible for designing and coordinating educational experiments. My research and study work focuses on teaching innovations linked to the use of media in schools as a tool for connecting disciplines to the principles of Civic Education. Furthermore, I am involved in experimenting with playful teaching methodologies such as collaborative games, educational live action role playing games (edu-larp), video games. 

I currently collaborate with training agencies dealing with the training of teachers for the development of digital and methodological skills.

Position

I started my collaboration with CREMIT in January 2024 as a trainer. 

Studies and professional training

I obtained a master’s degree in Media Education from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan in 2023 with a thesis entitled “Cinema and edu-larp. Developing citizenship skills through the construction of a collective imagination and living experience”, which explores the world of storytelling through images and experiential play contextualized in educational experiments. Previously I obtained a three-year degree in Cultural Heritage Sciences at the State University of Milan. 

Areas of research and intervention

My work focuses on the areas of Media Education, on the use of methodologies that avoid broadcast lessons in favor of collaborative lessons, EAS method, participatory lessons and experiential methodologies. I participated in the creation of games and video games for teaching.

Research

Since 2018 I have been working on finding funds and experimenting with formats for the integration of media in the development of citizenship skills in public schools: the framework I am referring to concerns an experiential ‘media filter’ (composed of cinema, edu-larp, comics, video games, etc) which convey storytelling, games, images and from which it is possible to build citizenship skills. 

Publications

In addition to several comics for smaller publishing houses, I published as an illustrator the children’s book series Sulle orme di…, De Agostini, 2012. In 2017 I edited the illustrations of the teaching book Geografia I, Start Up for Geo4Map and Libreria Geografica . In 2020 I created the graphics and drawings of the fantastic essay Le migrazioni dei Draghi, with F. R. D’Amato. The results of my research in the application of edu-larp and the format are published in the essays: Edu-Larp, Game design for educational role-playing games edited by A. Maragliano with the contribution Edu-larp and teaching of history: history, an infinite experience (FrancoAngeli editore, 2020) and in the essay Once upon a time there were Mondine (with G.C. Ceresa) in n.4/2023 of the magazine EaS. Essere a Scuola (editrice Scholé, Brescia).