L'obiettivo che questa tesi persegue è quello di analizzare il binomio blog/didattica, allargando il raggio di discussione e problematizzazione alle tecnologie di rete e all'educazione nei suoi aspetti di formalità e di informalità. Lo sguardo pedagogico-didattico viene eletto come guida del processo di riflessione e la scuola viene scelta come il campo di esplorazione privilegiato. L'approccio d'indagine assunto pone la didattica di fronte al blog riservando ad essa il compito di contestualizzare la tecnologia, di comprenderne potenzialità sfruttabili per sostenere processi di apprendimento formali ed informali e di rilevarne gli aspetti di vantaggio e di problematicità emergenti per progettare impieghi efficaci ed innovativi. La ricerca è strutturata lungo due direttrici: una teorico-fondativa destinata alla riflessione intorno ad alcuni nuclei tematici di sfondo (tecnologie educative, Rete e tecnologie emergenti, educazione formale ed informale) ed alla delineazione dello stato dell'arte in merito al blog ed alle sue applicazioni nella didattica; una empirica costituita dall'indagine sul campo finalizzata ad evidenziare e descrivere tendenze d'uso dei blog nei contesti scolastici italiani. / This thesis aims at analysing the blog/education binomial, extending its discussion and problematic nature to web technologies in the field of formal and informal educational methods. The teaching-learning question is selected as a guidance in the process under consideration and school is looked upon as the privileged field for research. This study places teaching and learning methods before blog and questions this new technique by examining it deeply in the afford to understand its potentiality in the formal and informal educational process. This study aims at putting into evidence possible advantages and problems arising from the application and planning possible innovations in the educational sphere. The research is based on two guiding lines: the theoretical-basic one referring to some background core topics (educational technologies, web, emerging methods, formal and informal education) and referring to the merits related to blog with its application to teaching; the empirical one based on a survey on the field aiming at bringing out and describing trends towards the use of blog in the Italian school environment.

Computing is becoming exponentially more pervasive, and so-called process of ``Digital Transformation'' is but starting. As computers become ever more relevant, our societies will need computing professionals that are well-equipped to face the many challenges their own discipline amplified. The education of computer scientists, so far, mostly focused on equipping them with technical skills. Society and academia, however, are increasingly recognising computing as a field where disciplines collide and intersect. An example that we investigate is that of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), a field that has often be used to equip computer science students with soft skills and non-technical competences. Computer science faces some unique problems, among which a lower student interest for non-technical subjects, and a constant process of epistemic and technological obsolescence. This thesis showcases some experiences that aim to address these challenges, going towards (re)connecting the Humans and Machines participating in computer science education with the needs of the World of today and tomorrow. Our work combines some theoretical reflections with pedagogical experiments, to ensure that our work has at the same time descriptive power and empirical validation. To aid teachers and learners in the change process, these experiments share a pedagogical approach rooted on Active Learning, ranging from Challenge-Based Learning to Peer Education, to custom-tailored teaching methodologies. In designing each experiment, we start by asking ourselves: how is what we want to teach practiced in the real world? Theoretically, this thesis contributes to the state of the art by conducting a horizontal exploration of how computer science education can enter an age ever more dominated by so-called ambiguity. Methodologically, we propose lightweight techniques for qualitative measurement that are rigorous, but introduce little methodological burden, emphasising our work's reflective and exploratory dimension. Our work aims to show how, using the same broad design process, courses can be flexibly adapted to fit an ever-changing world, including significant disruptions such as the transition to online education.