3rd INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS of EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES and DEVELOPMENT   
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                                              PALACIO DE MIRAMAR                                                      SAN SEBASTIAN, 24-26 JUNIO, 2015
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Davide Diamantini
Professor in Sociology, Department of Educational Human Sciences Riccardo Massa, University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALIA
Davide Diamantini is associate professor in sociology (sociology of the territory) at the Department of Educational Human Sciences “Riccardo Massa”of the University of Milano-Bicocca. Since 1994 carries out research and teaching in Milan University. His main areas of interests are: • the information society and the role of ICT technologies in the determination of social behavior; • technological innovation and scientific transfer related to the dynamics of territorial competitiveness of entrepreneurial activities • the socio-cognitive analysis of individual and social behaviors.
He is also Deputy Director of the Interdepartmental Centre QUA_SI Universiscuola - Quality of Life in the Information Society.
Among his most recent publication are the book Come digitalizzare una scuola (Guerini, 2014) and the articles The Use and Perception of ICT Among Educators: The Italian Case, (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014) and Diffusion of ICT related problems among students: the teachers’ experience, (Bordón, 2014).


INVITED SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACT
Digital Education: successfully integrating ICT in the school system...or not?
Promoting the use of ICT in school is among the first priorities of the Europe 2020, EU's growth strategy for the coming decade.  The symposium intend to explore the keys factors of a successful integration of the ICT in the school system. This includes the dematerialization of the administration system as much as the transformation of didactic practices. What characterize the best practices? As for the experiences of failure, when the introduction of innovative hardware and software has not lead to real changes in the ongoing practices: what are the reason for ICT under-use? What are the main obstacles encountered, and how can they be overcome?