This work analyses the use of artificial intelligence in education from an interdisciplinary point of view. New studies demonstrated that an AI can “deviate” and become potentially malicious, due to programmers’ biases, corrupted feeds or purposeful actions. Knowing the pervasive use of artificial intelligence systems, including in the educational environment, it seemed necessary to investigate when and how an AI in education could deviate. We started with an investigation of AI and the risks it poses, wondering if they could be applied also to educative AI. We then reviewed the increasing literature that deals with the use of technology in the classroom, and the criticism about it, referring to specific use cases. Finally, as a result, the authors formulate questions and suggestions for further research, to bridge conceptual gaps underlined by lack of research.
This research aims to promote motor activity in children with autism spectrum disorder through the development of an adapted integrated soccer project played outdoors. The project is carried out in collaboration with the nonprofit “Smile Association” of the city of Frosinone (Lazio-Italy) and the Pegaso and Parthenope Universities. The main purpose of the Smile Association is to provide an educational and sports service in an area poorly provided with opportunities for children with intellectual disabilities, allowing them to change their predominantly sedentary condition and, through corporeality, to improve cognitive, affective, and relational processes. Participation in sports activities allows for the development of motor skills, social interactions, and cognitive stimulation. There is a need for available resources and programs dedicated exclusively to children with ASD to help them develop social, motor, and cognitive skills. One of the programs that might be helpful is a structured group play program involving physical activity. In addition, through the project, a dense social network has been activated between the third sector, sports companies, and local health authorities. The project aims to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda in Articles 3, 4, and 11. This paper describes the correlation between learning and motor activity. According to the hypotheses of this research, integrated soccer activity implements cognitive skills, particularly those related to memory for visual stimuli and to the theory of mind, as well as sense-motor skills. Work carried out to improve attentional skills can reduce stereotypical behaviours. The results showed that continuous and regular engagement in motor activities has positive health outcomes for children with autism in terms of reduced symptomatology and improved quality of life. A total of 108 statistical units (the control group consisted of 18 statistical units, and the sample comprised 90 participants) aged 8 to 11 years were examined. The project is aimed at girls (in compliance with Art. 5 regarding gender equality); however, the participants identified by the local health authority are predominantly male.
The aim of the study was to analyze and evaluate the differences in jumping ability and in the fundamental technical of the float serve in volleyball, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of a working method. The study was performed on a sample of 11 male volleyball players (Under 20). Data were collected in two periods (September and October), subjecting the players to intensive technical and physical work. At the beginning of the training period, anthropometric data were collected, such as mean and standard deviation, and jumping ability. Players made a series of float serve to a specific area of the opponent's field and incremental effects were estimated after the intensive training period (in October). The statistical analysis of the data provided for the estimation of the percentage data and a Test t student to verify the difference between pre and post workout. The significant difference was set with p <0.05. The results show, after four weeks of intensive training, an improvement in jumping ability, at the Vertec test, equal to 3.45cm and a significant difference with p = 0.001, between the two series of jumps; while the estimate of the effect of technical training (float service) was 22%. These physical and motor tests allow the training process to be monitored by estimating the effects induced, allowing the coaches to design and adequately choose the methodology and the training load for an effective performance.
1 January 2019 in Journal of Human Sport and Exercise
Nowadays, recreational sports activities are focused on health and wellness aspects for a physiological study on the effects of the elite sport due to the spread of recreational sport, especially football. This work addresses the physical benefits originated from recreational five-aside football and aims at the perceptions about selfevaluation of the physical and the psychological data. It also proposes a questionnaire in a group of young men aged 23 to 29 who played amateur five-aside football for 8 weeks just 2-3 times a week. The requests basing on the overall research conclusions on the studies performed on recreational football (Kustrup et al., 2010). The most significant results showed that practicing amateur sports activities makes you feel better both physically and psychologically (respectively 87,3% e 93,3% of the answers) and it is less tiring and stressful than playing football agonistically (respectively 80% e 80% of the answers) or practicing strength training or interval running training. Furthermore, according to the data complex, it can be potentially satisfactory from the point of the view healthy and well-ness sport that can improve general well-being and it can prevent lethal diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases and obesity. In conclusion, it can be affirmed that recreational five-aside football can produce not only physical benefits, as Kustrup's article shows, but also significant psychological benefits, which makes you feel better and more relaxed.
1 January 2019 in Journal of Human Sport and Exercise
One of the aims of the adapted physical activity, APA, is the sport for disabled athletes with specific rules and applied only to the specific category of disabled people who compete under the government of the International Paralympic Committee, IPC, and Special Olympics, SO. The study wants to hypothesize adaptation processes for races open also to other categories of disabled athletes and normal people throughout changes to sports facilities and rules of the sport. The method is that of qualitative research of group work with specific focus after individual elaborations of several students attending the master's degree course in the evaluation of disabled people. The phases are as follows: 1) elaboration of specific ideas for individual sports adapted by the sample of 55 master students; 2) focus groups on analysis and discussion of the problems highlighted in the individual projects; 3) synthesis of the principles and guidelines related to adaptation of race rules and sport facilities. The results shows the selected sport, its adaptation of single race rules and its sport facilities. Number 33 of sports have been hypothesized: 17 individual sports and 16 team ones. This work can create new sports, in which it can compete together athletes with different disabilities , and you can also highlight that in sport, as in life, if we overcome all barriers and limits, mental and physical, nothing is impossible. Inclusive paradigm has to be developed in sport also for the race effect.