The article advances a pedagogical perspective on Artificial Intelligence as a new frontier of the word and as a dispositif capable of redefining teaching and learning processes. AI is not conceived as a mere technical tool, but as a form of cognitive mediation that adds itself to the major remediations of our cultural history, inaugurating a phase in which the traditional perceptual amplification of media is 159 complemented by cognitive amplification. On this premise, the paper develops twenty didactic ideas organized into four areas: (1) the competencies required to interact with language models – questioning, conversation, inquiry, and prompting – which transform AI into an artificial interlocutor capable of supporting practices of inquiry and critical literacy; (2) the methods and processes that AI helps to renew, such as multiliteracies, cognitive anticipation, EAS, personalization, conceptualization, and assessment; (3) disciplinary applications, ranging from philosophy to STEAM, including argumentation, writing, and creativity, where AI becomes both an epistemic object and a co-author; (4) education about AI, focused on critical thinking, responsibility, and algorithmic citizenship, with awareness of bias, data power, and the ethical-political implications of technology. The contribution concludes by showing how AI makes necessary a renewed education of the word: a dialogical, negotiated word that enables schools to respond to the “dictatorship of answers” by restoring centrality to questioning and to educational emancipation.
L’articolo propone una visione pedagogica dell’Intelligenza Artificiale come nuova frontiera della parola e come dispositivo capace di ridefinire i processi di insegnamento e apprendimento. L’IA non è un semplice strumento tecnico, ma una forma di mediazione cognitiva che si aggiunge alle grandi rimediazioni della nostra storia culturale aprendo una fase in cui alla tradizionale amplificazione percettiva dei media si aggiunge un’amplificazione cognitiva. Su questa premessa si sviluppano venti idee didattiche organizzate in quattro aree: (1) le competenze necessarie per interagire con i modelli linguistici – domanda, conversazione, ricerca e prompting – che trasformano l’IA in un interlocutore artificiale capace di sostenere pratiche di inquiry e di alfabetizzazione critica; (2) i metodi e i processi che l’IA contribuisce a rinnovare, come le multiliteracies, l’anticipazione cognitiva, gli EAS, la personalizzazione, concettualizzazione e valutazione; (3) le applicazioni disciplinari, dalla filosofia alle STEAM, passando per argomentazione, scrittura e creatività, dove l’IA diventa un oggetto epistemico e un co-autore; (4) la didattica sull’IA, centrata su pensiero critico, responsabilità e cittadinanza algoritmica, consapevole dei bias, del potere dei dati e delle implicazioni etico-politiche della tecnologia. Il contributo si chiude mostrando come l’IA renda necessaria una rinnovata educazione alla parola: una parola dialogica, negoziata, che permette alla scuola di rispondere alla “dittatura delle risposte” restituendo centralità alla domanda e all’emancipazione educativa.
Rivoltella, P.C. (2026). L’IA come nuova frontiera della parola. 20 idee didattiche da sviluppare in classe. Lecce : Pensa multimedia.
L’IA come nuova frontiera della parola. 20 idee didattiche da sviluppare in classe
Pier Cesare Rivoltella
2026
Abstract
The article advances a pedagogical perspective on Artificial Intelligence as a new frontier of the word and as a dispositif capable of redefining teaching and learning processes. AI is not conceived as a mere technical tool, but as a form of cognitive mediation that adds itself to the major remediations of our cultural history, inaugurating a phase in which the traditional perceptual amplification of media is 159 complemented by cognitive amplification. On this premise, the paper develops twenty didactic ideas organized into four areas: (1) the competencies required to interact with language models – questioning, conversation, inquiry, and prompting – which transform AI into an artificial interlocutor capable of supporting practices of inquiry and critical literacy; (2) the methods and processes that AI helps to renew, such as multiliteracies, cognitive anticipation, EAS, personalization, conceptualization, and assessment; (3) disciplinary applications, ranging from philosophy to STEAM, including argumentation, writing, and creativity, where AI becomes both an epistemic object and a co-author; (4) education about AI, focused on critical thinking, responsibility, and algorithmic citizenship, with awareness of bias, data power, and the ethical-political implications of technology. The contribution concludes by showing how AI makes necessary a renewed education of the word: a dialogical, negotiated word that enables schools to respond to the “dictatorship of answers” by restoring centrality to questioning and to educational emancipation.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.



