The measures adopted by governments to contain the spread of Covid-19 have highlighted the limits of traditional teaching and the need to further integrate technology and the opportunities offered by the web in schools of all levels. In this context MR Digital, an Italian integration and technological consultancy company, one of the main companies specializing in innovative solutions for the education world, presents BricksLab, a digital content platform for schools.
MR Digital presenta BricksLab
The MR Digital Group has its roots in the “Nino Monti” founded in 1954 as an Olivetti dealer and quickly transformed into a distribution and integration company for products and technological solutions in line with the expansion of the industry of those years. Today the Group has three branches of activity (consulting and integration, software, education) and works with prestigious brands.
Born in 2019 and integrable with other existing platforms (such as Google Classroom and Drive and Microsoft Teams), BricksLab is constantly evolving, and it combines the didactic contents of the most important school publishers, qualified partners and teachers with original multimedia resources developed internally and further high quality materials available on the web. The more than 10,000 videos, audio, presentations, podcasts, concept maps, interactive materials and quizzes currently present are easily navigated through a system of filters that allow a quick and targeted search and return accurate resources.
The teachers have at their disposal a tool that allows you to hook content bricks (brick) in a custom and fast way, integrating them with personal materials that can be uploaded or saved in a private storage space to build customized lessons and paths, as well as to set up interactive tests to check the level of understanding.
The lessons thus created can then be saved in your personal area and / or shared with the other teachers in the Community area: a place to share the commitment of each one and to encourage the exchange between teachers.
Furthermore, the BricksLab TV, which offers original video content on specific thematic or current topics. The first open channel is dedicated to events, including the recent edition of Didacta. A hundred videos on very different topics that allow students to explore issues such as cyberbullying, fake news, art, e-sports or to exercise fundamental skills today such as emotional education.