SCiLearn 2012 - workshop on Learning within and from the Smart Cities

"Learning within and from the 'Smart Cities'"
(SCiLearn 2012)
Sinaia (Romania), September 2-4, 2012

co-located at
ICWL 2012
http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2012/

organized by
Dept. of Science and Tehnology of Education and IaD School of Tor Vergata
University of Rome
and
PH Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education.

Temporary workshop website:
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/scilea...

INTRODUCTION

This workshop proposes itself as a "think tank" to foster a reflection
on how the way we learn may be influenced and changed because of the
development of 'smart cities', but also 'smart villages' and 'smart
territories'.
From the Far East, to the Americas and to Europe, cities and their
surroundings are evolving towards a new dimension in which the info
infrastructure becomes an indispensable asset of our life, contributes
to the development of info-ecosystems embracing 'smart mobility and
last-mile logistics', 'smart health', 'smart government', 'smart culture
and tourism', the sustainability of the natural resources and the green
economy. Such integrated effort of info-urbanism is expected to produce
social innovation and, inevitably, leads to wonder about what forms can
take the smart education underlined by all pieces that compose the
mosaic of the info-ecosystems.
The person, considered in all her/his complexity, will be placed at the
center of educational contexts and scenarios increasingly ubiquitous,
complex, organic. The perimeter of the physical space in which the
educational experiences develop will become increasingly undefined,
liquid and will host more and more nomadic and informal practices
characterized by a high density of social interactions. In these
scenarios, the mediating role of technology will widen over the time to:
foster relationships with the natural environments, filter content
needed to support meaningful experiences at glocal level, disclose
feedback necessary to learn how to manage "in action", the complexity of
static and dynamic, of learning contexts and processes.

Through which educational path people will become "participatorly" aware
citizens of the future "SimCities"? How will we learn from the open
books that are represented by the cities of art? How will data flowing
from sensorized areas will be elaborated to support awareness and
learning? How will our behavior be influenced by knowledge of
co-evolution mechanisms and limits of the ecosystems? Will the
educational infrastructure be smart enough to readjust, even
autopoietically, to satisfy the needs that everyone could develop life
long, in different contexts?
The future perspective is that of territories that become increasingly
open to awareness and participation and of a 'smart education' that
becomes more and more spatially widespread and temporally continuous.

IMPORTANT DATES

* June 10, 2012: Deadline for submission of contributions
* July 1, 2012: Authors' Notification on the review process results
* July 15, 2012: Authors' Registration Deadline and upload of Final
Camera-Ready Manuscript

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Papers are solicited on the following 'open' list of topics:

? Technological Ecosystems supporting learning within and from the
'smart cities' (toward 'web-mobile-internet of thing' integrated
environments)
? Future 'smart cities' learning scenarios (contexts and methods)
? Ecological monitoring and visualization of flows, behaviours,
experience's styles and 'smart cities' learning
? The impact of contextualization, glocalities, identities
? Educational Ecosystems: from ''intelligence' to autopoietic education
(edupoiesis)

PAPER FORMAT and PUBLICATION

ICWL organizers are finalizing arrangement for publication of workshop
contributions with Springer.
Authors are thus required to submit their manuscript according to the
LNCS proceedings format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-...

Papers should be no exceed 10 pages.

In addition to the ICWL workshop proceedings an extended version of
selected workshop papers will be published in a special issue of the
IxD&A Journal (ISSN 1826-9745)

SUBMISSIONS

Please submit your manuscript using the IxD&A submission System at:
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (preliminary)

Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Emmanuelle Blanchard, AAU, DK
Joseph Blat, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain
Rosa Maria Bottino, ITD-CNR, Italy
Antonella Carbonaro, University of Bologna, Italy
Augusto Celentano, University of Venice, Italy
Paolo Ciucciarelli, Politectino di Milano - Density Design, Italy
Walter Colitti, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Paloma Diaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Gabriella Dodero, University of Bozen
Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada
Ray Huang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada
Andreas Lingnau, University of Strathclyde, UK
Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Demetrios Sampson, Univ Piraeus and CERTH, Greece
Stefania Serafin, AAU, DK
Luca Simeone, Vianet, Italy
Marcus Specht, OU, Netherland
Imran A. Zualkernan, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

CONTACTS:

Carlo Giovannella - giovannella-AT-scuolaiad.it
Alke Martens - alke.martens-AT-googlemail.com