Conferencias Internacionales
Patricia Heredia
La tecnología es para todos
Patricia Heredia es Ingeniera de Telecomunicaciones de Huesca, formada en la Universidad de Zaragoza. Es una figura destacada en la divulgación científica contemporánea, haciendo fácil lo difícil, y convirtiendo la tecnología en algo accesible y estimulante. Su trayectoria abarca desde el diseño electrónico y los sistemas Linux hasta la creación de la empresa MiniVinci, un laboratorio educativo y tecnológico oscense. El proyecto ValPat STEAM, desarrollado junto a Valeria Corrales, ha suscitado un interés creciente porque convierte la programación y la electrónica en un juego cognitivo para la infancia, y porque interroga, sin decirlo explícitamente, el modo en que se construyen las vocaciones científicas. ¿No es significativo que tal esfuerzo haya cristalizado en iniciativas de gran impacto como Mulleres Tech o Women TechMakers Zaragoza, orientadas a ampliar la presencia femenina en el ámbito digital? Los numerosos reconocimientos —desde el Premio Innovadoras TIC y el galardón Innovactora Winn hasta su inclusión en la lista Forbes de personas creativas y el reciente nombramiento como Ingeniera del Año en Aragón— consolidan una figura que imbrica innovación técnica, compromiso educativo y una sensibilidad divulgativa que invita a repensar el lugar de la tecnología en la formación de las nuevas generaciones.
Dra. Alessandra Carenzio
Black Mirror: Post-digital education and relationships in the age of screen-mediated experience
Alessandra Carenzio is an Associate Professor of General Didactics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, where she teaches Didactics and Instructional Technologies, Didactic and Assessment Processes in Media Education, History of Communication, and Elements of Didactics. She completed her degree in Educational Sciences at the Catholic University of Milan (2001) with a thesis on Media Education, subsequently becoming a subject expert in Instructional and Learning Technologies. In 2005 she obtained her PhD in Pedagogy, producing a dissertation on Media Education within European research centres, in which she examined the ways Media Education is addressed in studies and scholarly investigations across Europe. During her doctoral training, she undertook two international research stays at the University of Rovaniemi (Lapin Yliopisto) and the University of Faro.
She works at CREMIT (Research Centre for Media Education, Innovation and Technology), where she serves as co-coordinator. Her research interests include television seriality as a didactic mediator and an object of inquiry in relation to digital cultures, Media Education as a transversal educational perspective (family, school, and non-formal settings), digital education approached through a cultural—rather than merely technological—lens, and pedagogical innovation in schools and higher education. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Teaching and Learning Lab at the Catholic University and a member of the scientific societies SIPeD and SIRD. You can learn more about their research here.