由中央管理的无线连接帮助fondazione per la scuola缩小意大利学校的数字技能差距

正如任何父母所知道的，孩子们对技术很棒。从小就接触到设备和应用程序，通常使房屋中最年轻的房子成为房屋中最专家。但是家庭生活不是学校生活。

在世界范围内，教育当局正在竞争，为小学提供与家里相同水平的数字连通性。数字素养被认为与阅读，写作和数学一样重要。

“我们希望消除防止学校创造性的物理和文化障碍，”弗洛伦佐·贝努西（Lorenzo Benussi）说，弗拉·斯科拉（Per La Scuola）是康涅狄利亚（Riconnessioni）的组织，也是Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation的一部分。“这需要培养新的教学方法，并为互联网连接创建新的模型。”

Promote Digital Innovation in Education

Riconnessioni is one of Europe’s largest and most comprehensive programmes to promote digital innovation in education. It aims to connect more than 300 primary and lower secondary schools in and around the Turin region of Italy. If successful it will act as a blueprint for the rest of the country.

“我们希望消除防止学校创造性的物理和文化障碍，”弗洛伦佐·贝努西（Lorenzo Benussi）说，弗拉·斯科拉（Per La Scuola）是康涅狄利亚（Riconnessioni）的组织，也是Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation的一部分。“这需要培养新的教学方法，并为互联网连接创建新的模型。”

Compagnia di San Paolo基金会与意大利最大的银行之一保持一致。它致力于支持围绕文化，教育和经济发展的项目，从而创建实际交付模型。弥合教育中的数字技能差距将对意大利的长期经济命运产生深远的影响。Riconnessioni在其第一阶段达到了96,000名学生，并且在国家一级扩大规模。

Deliver 10Gb Bandwidth into Schools

Riconnessioni’s Wi-Fi network is built on Aruba. The project has so far established easy-to-access wireless connectivity, essential for young learners and dynamic teaching, in 26 schools. Both students and staff can connect their own devices to the network.

With greater connectivity, comes higher demand and more use cases. This has driven the need for far higher internet bandwidth for each school, which is why the Fondazione per la Scuola has upgraded access to 10Gb. The Aruba network provides the secure and high-performance access for pupils and staff.

“We’ll be using the first 26 schools to measure improvement,” says Benussi. “That will inform the next stage of the roll-out.”
阿鲁巴岛的ClearPass政策经理协调secure and role-based network access for a unified wired and wireless network, while cloud-native Aruba Central delivers consistent network management with AI-enabled analytics. It means the foundation can deliver a superior and seamless connectivity service to each school, managed from a single pane of glass.

Shorten Deployment Times to Accelerate Roll-Out as a Service

Aruba Edge Services平台（ESP）建立了一个一致的架构，并具有标准组件和集中管理。这加速了部署时间并降低成本。

“Connectivity should be considered the same as the provision of water or electricity. It is a utility service,” says Marcello Maggiora, Head of Technology & Digital Strategy, Compagnia di San Paolo Sistema Torino, the service provider for Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation. “We’ve transformed the network from a capex consideration to opex. With configuration templates agreed, we can have a school online within two or three days.”

The approach recognises the practical realities of primary education: schools with more than 300 pupils don’t have a dedicated IT or network manager. Aruba Central makes the network simple to deploy and manage.

“ Aruba解决方案的最重要特征是灵活性。Aruba Central中的灵活性和智能意味着我们可以配置它以适合不同学校的要求。” Maggiora解释说。“这实际上是零触摸供应。中央将是了解如何使用网络的绝佳工具。”

Enable a Focus on Cultural Transformation

The simplicity of the architecture allows Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation to focus on the cultural aspect of the project.
Maggiora说：“如果您希望人们考虑创新，就必须制作最简单的事情。”“网络管理绝不应该是老师的问题。”

Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation is working with teachers to create digital advocates within schools, with these advocates then training colleagues within their own schools. It is estimated this trickle-down approach has already reached 60% of teaching staff and Benussi says that research indicates digital competency among teachers is up by 20%.

共同加速计划。该基金会建立了由教师制定的150多个课程计划的图书馆；64个在线网络研讨会有超过50,000次观看。在分享思想和最佳实践中，有一种协作和舒适感。

“There are many examples of this kind of digital project failing in the past because they considered only the technology and not the user,” says Benussi. “We have worked hard to make sure teachers are comfortable. We want them to see digital as one other teaching tool.”

向资助者展示影响的证据

Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation is a not-for-profit agency but must demonstrate a return on investment to funders. It matches its own revenues to funding committed by private enterprise and government. The Aruba architecture allows the organisation to show transparency around costs and process and to create standards, clearly define protocols to engage public and private stakeholders and provide project management frameworks for the service they provide.

“We believe it’s very important to set a standard. This project establishes a professional approach to satisfy public and private funders. We’re focused on impacts. It’s important that we measure everything we do,” says Benussi.

The foundation is working with University of Padua to research social and emotional skills, and it is part of a national research programme on learning analytics involving the Ministry of Education and Milan Polytechnic. Finally, Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation is working with the UN’s International Training Centre, also based in Turin, to refine a scalable teacher training programme on innovation.

Benussi says that in the first quarter of 2021 the network traffic increased by 250% in connected schools compared to the previous months, reflecting the appeal of digital platforms.

为民族推出做准备

The plan is for the programme to go national. The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of digital tools and new methods of teaching.

The foundation is working with Italian telecoms company Fastweb on a national connectivity project, using the Aruba approach as a benchmark. Alongside this, Italy’s National Plan for Schools Connectivity is developing training materials for more than 3,000 schools.
Benussi says that in the first quarter of 2021 the network traffic increased by 250% in connected schools compared to the previous months, reflecting the appeal of digital platforms. “Younger kids watch videos, they listen to other languages and they interact with learning platforms. They use more bandwidth than the older ones, because they use digital in more ways. Digital allows more variety in learning approaches.”

He is confident the Aruba approach can help the national school system to move quickly to bridge education’s digital skills gap. It allows for the use of Dynamic Segmentation and a Zero Trust security architecture as network demands mature: “Riconnessioni is a model made out of components which can be replicated as a whole or separately.”