{"id":41112,"date":"2014-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-02-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T00:00:00","slug":"the-technological-chalk-wins-the-national-contest-about-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.varesenews.it\/2014\/02\/the-technological-chalk-wins-the-national-contest-about-innovation\/41112\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;technological chalk&#8221; wins the national contest about innovation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">A simple, but potentially revolutionary idea. I<\/span><b style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">t has been considered in this way by the Ing Direct judges, promoters of the &quot;BitBumBam&quot; contest, <\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">launched to discover innovative ideas and stimulate children&#8217;s fantasy, the <\/span><b style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">digital natives<\/b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">. The contest was created from the premise that, nowadays, half of the children between 6 and 10 years old, are familiar with technology, touch screens, multimedia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">At the end the jury had to search among <b>300 suggestions for the most innovative and the easiest to use.<\/b> With his great surprise,<b> Giuseppe Lo Pinto, laboratory technician in a High School in Varese<\/b>, won the first prize for his project &quot;<b>LimVtouch<\/b>&quot;.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The system presented considers a<b> &quot;interactive blackboards&quot;<\/b><\/span><b><span lang=\"DA\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:\nDA\"> at <\/span><\/b><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">a moderate cost.<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"> &quot;Everything starts from a Wii console&quot;<b> explained Lo Pinto <\/b>&quot;which interfaces through the <b>bluetooth system or infrared laser with the controller.<\/b> I&#8217;ve adapted a system created by a Google developer to the School needs. Its advantage is that teachers&nbsp; can bring home the program and prepare lessons calmly. So the emotional obstacle of the low familiarity with technology will be ridden<\/span><span lang=\"PT\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:\nPT\"> out. Moreover, <\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">there&#8217;s no need for special blackboards because every surface can become a screen.&quot;<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">While the announcement of &quot;Web3 generation&quot;, which make available 15 millions of euros to support the technological innovation in schools, is open, now <b>the main problem remains the real potential of tablets and PCs<\/b><\/span><b><span lang=\"NL\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:\nNL\"> in schools<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"> where internet connections are insufficient, there are non-existent textbooks and low availability of the teachers to innovate the traditional didactics.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">So,<b> Giuseppe Lo Pinto suggests an economic and flexible model that could also meet the favour of who is restrained by the low knowledge of the subject:<\/b> &quot; the console is simple and handy. A teacher could bring it home and practice.&quot;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\n&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The jury of the BitBumBam contest have commented on their decision with these words<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">:&quot; the intelligent chalk of LimVtouch is a brilliant intuition, the team is solid and the instrument has a very favourable pricing compared with every similar product on the market. This educational instrument, compared with other tools, is pocket-sized and simple to use. These are some of the reasons that let the team of LimVtouch, deservedly the victor of this first contest edition, bring back home the prize of 25,000 euros and 6 months of consultancy by iStarter.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;LimVtouch&#8221; project developed by Giuseppe Lo Pinto, laboratory technician of a High School of Varese, won the first prize of the \u201cBitBumBam&#8221; contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The &quot;technological chalk&quot; wins the national contest about innovation.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The &quot;LimVtouch&quot; 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