The resource is a video of the webinar "Educating in the future: digital experience and Metaverse" organised by Generations Connected in collaboration with eTwinning.

Topic:
The next generation of the internet is now known to be the Metaverse, a new virtual space where people can meet digitally to socialise, work, shop, play,
learn. The Metaverse has the potential to radically transform our digital interactions. We do not yet know how this space will evolve and what it will look like several years from now, but we do know that its impact on our personal and professional lives will not be marginal. This immersive, multidimensional, borderless, persistent, interoperable and shared realm adds one more piece to the pedagogical and didactic reflection on the fundamental role that media (and especially their multiplicity and diversity) play in the educational process, from childhood and throughout life.
What will the Metaverse bring to schools? What are the potential reflections on teaching methods and student learning?
Perception, sensitivity, thinking change depending on whether we experience media such as the printed book or such as television and film or such as the web. What changes, and drastically, with the digital and the
network is that control and hence the filtering operation is no longer delegated to an external agent but to the user himself, who must therefore be put in a position to consciously and intelligently use filtering mechanisms, both personal and shared with the network of his relationships. Moreover, interactions, emotional expressions, physical contact, touch, smell and body language are all forms of communication that are absent in the virtual world: it is the human element represented by the figure of the teacher who has a pivotal role in accompanying the students within the virtual spaces and in supporting them to relate the educational experiences lived in those spaces to real life. Therein lies the already current task of those who perform the functions of education, a task that cannot be performed positively if they themselves, the educator, do not educate themselves to this media plurality and differentiation.