21st Century Capabilities
Educational Project
Equipping students with essential skills for the modern world: digital literacy, creativity, collaboration, and adaptability to thrive in an ever-changing global landscape.
“The school must accompany children to navigate, understand and choose, with age-appropriate criteria and graduality.”
— Vitangelo Denora — General Director of Gonzaga Campus
Preparing for a World in Transformation
Digital transformation is no longer just a technical change: it touches daily life, relationships, access to information, and the way we study and build our identity. The emergence of Artificial Intelligence makes this transformation even faster and more pervasive. Gonzaga Campus does not stand at a distance but accompanies students to orient themselves with discernment and responsibility.
Gradual Integration
Technology is introduced gradually and intentionally, always guided by an educator and placed within a framework of meaning. From guided exposure in Infanzia to autonomous critical use in Licei, each stage builds on the previous.
Critical Thinking
Students learn to distinguish between true and plausible, verify information reliability, understand the relationship between creativity and copying, and maintain a critical attitude towards digital content.
Human Centrality
The use of technology is always within an educational relationship: mediated by the teacher and aimed at developing competences, creativity and responsibility. Balance is maintained between digital and embodied experience.
AI Literacy
Age-appropriate introduction to what AI is (and what it is not), recognising its limits and possibilities, learning not to delegate thinking, and maintaining critical judgment towards AI-generated information.
Digital Challenges, Human Responses
Technology integration requires balancing opportunity with responsibility, innovation with discernment, and digital fluency with human values.
Technology & AI Integration
Children often show familiarity with devices and applications but do not always possess the tools to critically evaluate their content, languages and messages. Overexposure to screens can produce overload, reduced attention and difficulties in self-regulation.
Gonzaga Campus promotes a gradual, intentional and guided approach to technology, oriented towards integral growth and digital citizenship. Technology is used as a learning environment for research, production, coding and computational thinking.
Technology as learning environment, not passive consumption
Guided use of Promethean panels, iPads and computers in lessons
Coding and computational thinking pathways from primary school
STEAM labs integrating science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics
AI literacy: understanding capabilities, limits and ethical implications
Key Digital Capabilities
The essential 21st century competences developed progressively across the Gonzaga Campus educational journey.
AI Literacy
Understanding what Artificial Intelligence is and what it is not, recognising its capabilities and limits, maintaining critical thinking, and using AI tools responsibly as aids to learning.
Coding & Computational Thinking
Structured pathways in coding and digital literacy from primary school, developing logical thinking, problem decomposition and algorithmic reasoning as foundational cognitive skills.
Interactive Digital Tools
Promethean panels, iPads, computers and digital libraries used for producing and documenting learning, not just consuming content. Guided and purposeful integration into daily lessons.
STEAM Education
Integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics through hands-on laboratory experiences, interdisciplinary projects and authentic problem-solving tasks.
Critical Information Literacy
Learning to verify information reliability, compare sources, recognise bias, and distinguish fact from opinion in an age of information overload and AI-generated content.
Digital Citizenship
Comprehensive education in online safety, privacy protection, respectful communication, and responsible use of technology aligned with human values and community wellbeing.
Progressive Digital Journey
From guided exploration to autonomous critical use, 21st century capabilities are developed progressively across every school level.
Infanzia
6 months - 5 yearsAge-appropriate introduction to digital concepts through play, storytelling and guided exploration. Focus on creativity, curiosity and social interaction rather than screens.
Key Features
Storytelling and interactive activities introducing digital concepts
Limited, purposeful screen exposure guided by educators
Focus on social-emotional foundations for future digital citizenship
Play-based introduction to patterns and logical sequences
Primaria
6 - 10 yearsGuided use of digital tools for learning, coding fundamentals, and the beginning of digital citizenship education. Technology enhances active pedagogy without replacing it.
Key Features
Coding and computational thinking fundamentals
Guided use of iPads, Promethean panels and digital libraries
Digital citizenship: privacy, safety, respectful online behaviour
First steps in AI literacy appropriate to the age
Medie
11 - 13 yearsExpanded digital projects, research skills, and collaborative digital tools. Students develop critical evaluation of online information and responsible digital identity.
Key Features
Digital research projects with source verification
Collaborative tools for group work and presentations
Deepening digital citizenship and online identity awareness
Introduction to data literacy and information management
Licei
14 - 18 yearsAutonomous and critical use of technology. STEAM labs, advanced AI literacy, digital creation tools, and preparation for university and professional digital environments.
Key Features
STEAM Liceo with dedicated science and technology labs
Advanced AI literacy and ethical technology discussions
Digital portfolio and creation tools for academic projects
University-level digital research and presentation skills
ISP
2 - 18 yearsIB framework integrating technology across all subjects. Design and technology units, digital creativity, and global collaboration through international school networks.
Key Features
IB Design units integrating technology throughout MYP
Digital tools for inquiry-based learning and documentation
Global collaboration projects with international IB schools
Diploma Programme extended essays using advanced research tools