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Countries with active students on the platform.
DreamShaper, the digital environment for project-based teaching
DreamShaper helps teachers and students design and manage project-based learning pathways: from defining objectives to collecting evidence, through to competence-based assessment. It is a structured digital environment in which the teacher stays in charge of the pathway and Artificial Intelligence works as a support for project design.
DreamShaper is a software platform marketed by Gruppo Spaggiari Parma S.p.A. for the Italian school market.
THE PROJECT
An environment for active teaching and project-based learning pathways
DreamShaper lets schools acquire or generate project design pathways, interdisciplinary or subject-based, that make it simpler to adopt teaching methods built on students’ active involvement and on competence-based design. The platform is used in all school levels and at university.
2 million+
Active users, from primary school to university.
PBL and IBL
The supported methodologies, integrated with UDA (learning units), FSL (school-work training) and civic education.
THE CONTEXT
What the Italian Ministry’s Guidelines ask of schools today
The Italian Ministry’s Guidelines steer schools towards consistent processes, a central role for the teacher, active student participation and competence-based teaching. On the technology side, they call for aware and responsible use of digital tools, with attention to security and data protection.
For the school
Consistency of processes, methodologies and tools; governance and coordination; privacy and data protection; security standards.
For the teacher
A central, supervisory role, with educational autonomy, teaching creativity and freedom of methodological choice, plus practical support for project design.
For students
Active methodologies, so that students take part in the learning process through practical, collaborative, hands-on activities.
For teaching
Interdisciplinary learning, development of transversal skills, documented pathways and competence-based assessment.
THE TEACHER AT THE CENTRE
Artificial Intelligence works alongside the teacher
DreamShaper brings AI into a controlled, traceable environment, where every generated pathway goes through the teacher’s review before it reaches the classroom.
The teacher’s role stays whole
AI works as a support for project design: it assists analysis, prompts methodological reflection, widens the design possibilities and helps with critical review. Pedagogical, methodological and teaching decisions remain with the teacher.
A traceable environment
Activities take place in a structured digital space, with access management and a history of actions.
Governance for the school
Coordination among teachers, departments and class councils, with consistent processes and tools.
Operational simplicity
Design follows a guided procedure: manual steps and preparation time are reduced.
THE METHODOLOGIES
Three ways to get the class working
The platform supports methodologies that put the student at the centre of the learning process, and it helps the teacher apply them, even in organisationally complex schools.
Project Based Learning
Students learn by carrying out concrete, structured projects. They develop autonomy, responsibility and the ability to apply knowledge in real contexts, with interdisciplinary integration and design skills.
Inquiry Based Learning
Learning starts from research, observation and discovery: students ask questions, analyse information and build knowledge through a process of investigation.
Workshop-based teaching
Project work, problem solving and competence-based design: structured, interdisciplinary pathways that bring students directly into the learning process.
THE COMPETENCES
What students train
The pathways aim to develop a broad set of transversal, design and methodological competences, consistent with today’s educational and professional contexts.
Cognitive skills
Creativity, critical thinking, problem solving and design ability.
Operational skills
Operational autonomy, collaboration, research and investigation, active design.
Teaching approach
Experiential and interdisciplinary learning, with a guided build-up of competences.
The student’s role
From consumer of content to active protagonist, within a digital environment geared to design, management and monitoring.
FLESSIBILITÀ
Pathways for an individual student, for a group or for the whole school
Each teacher works with a high level of personalisation, in full respect of teaching autonomy. Pathways are designed and managed at three levels.
Individual student
Personalised pathways, including for students with special educational needs: individual monitoring, collection of evidence, digital products, deadlines and progress management.
Collaborative groups
Project work with role management, collaborative activities, collection of evidence, workflows, deadlines and coordination of activities.
Class and school
Coordination between departments, shared governance, organisational management, centralised monitoring and structured collection of evidence and digital products.
HOW IT WORKS
From the initial prompt to a pathway ready for the class
With the pathway creation software, teachers build Project Based Learning pathways independently, through a sequence of steps supported by Artificial Intelligence. It starts from a short prompt describing the project idea, and the platform guides you step by step to the complete pathway.
1. Initial prompt
The teacher describes the project idea: subject, class, objectives and available time.
2. Guided generation
The platform proposes a structure for the pathway: phases, activities, evidence to collect and assessment criteria.
3. Review and validation
The teacher reviews, adapts and validates the pathway before assigning it to the class.
WHAT YOU CAN BUILD
Tailor-made pathways by field of study, subject and class
Administrators, teacher teams or individual teachers can develop, review and validate the pathways in which students will take part.
Customised PBL pathways
Built around the school’s needs and adapted to the different school levels and fields of study.
Interdisciplinary projects
Projects that cut across several subjects, or activities specific to a single subject.
Vertical pathways and modules
Pathways that follow students over time, and modules focused on a specific objective.
Review and adaptation
The generated structures can be reviewed, validated and adapted, keeping flexibility and personalisation.
THE PATHWAYS
Two ways to get your pathways
Pathways can be commissioned from Spaggiari or created by the school with the creation software. The two options can be combined.
Commissioned pathways
Designed and produced to order by Spaggiari, according to the school’s specific needs, fields of study and objectives. No staff training required.
Pathways created by the school
The school can assign a teacher or a team of teachers, or authorise all teachers, to create their own pathways with the creation software.
ESEMPI
Ready-made pathways, for every school level and field of study
Some examples of pathways available for purchase, for the different fields of study. They can be commissioned and customised, or serve as a starting point for designing new ones around the school’s needs.
Licei
“Artificial Intelligence, ethics and society”, “Environmental sustainability and active citizenship”, “Digital communication and critical thinking”, plus pathways for the classical, science, language, human sciences, economics and social studies, arts, music and dance upper secondary schools.
Technical institutes
“Technological innovation and digital transformation”, “Project management and collaborative work”, “Sustainability and development of production processes”, with pathways for RIM, SIA, tourism, mechanics, transport, IT, graphics, chemistry, fashion, agriculture and construction.
Vocational institutes
“Professional skills and operational problem solving”, “Quality of service and customer relations”, “Safety, sustainability and work organisation”, with pathways for AFM, food and wine services, health and social services, maintenance, crafts and cultural services.
Lower secondary and primary school
From the digital school newspaper and aware use of social media to the interdisciplinary educational podcast; for primary school, the school vegetable garden, the cycle of the seasons, discovering professions and collaborative stories.
FOUR AXES
The goals a school can set itself
DreamShaper supports schools along four strategic axes, fitting in with the activities already under way in the school.
Regulations and governance
Follow the Italian Ministry’s Guidelines, ensure consistency of processes, methodologies and tools, and make coordination easier among teachers, departments and class councils.
Privacy and security
Protect the privacy of students, teachers and staff, operate in line with the applicable regulatory framework, and adopt IT security standards in the use of digital technologies and AI.
Teachers and design
Preserve the teacher’s central role, supervision and educational responsibility, value autonomy and methodological freedom, simplify design and reduce operating times.
Students and learning
Active and participatory methodologies, competence-based and interdisciplinary teaching, structured documentation and competence-based assessment.
TEACHING SPECIALISATION
A tool designed for the educational context
DreamShaper has a structure geared to the world of school and to educational design. The debate on Artificial Intelligence in schools promotes a model centred on the person, on responsibility and on teacher supervision: the platform is built with this approach.
Methodological and teaching design
It supports the design work, not just the production of texts.
Interdisciplinary pathways
It allows you to build personalised pathways that cut across several subjects.
Consistency and governance
It encourages consistent, coordinated processes across the whole school.
Controlled use of AI
It operates in a controlled, traceable digital environment, with responsible use of Artificial Intelligence.
THE BENEFITS
What changes for the school, for teachers and for students
The platform integrates with UDA (learning units), FSL (school-work training), civic education, interdisciplinary activities, workshop-based pathways and curriculum design.
For the school
Governance and methodological consistency, AI introduced in a controlled and traceable way, structured teaching design, simplified monitoring and documentation, better-organised project work.
For teachers
Guided design tools, structured organisation of pathways, continuous monitoring of activities, centralised collection of materials and support for competence-based assessment, with teaching autonomy safeguarded.
For students
Greater motivation and active participation, development of autonomy and critical thinking, collaboration skills and transversal competences consistent with educational and professional contexts.
HOW STUDENTS WORK
Six types of experience
Students take part in activities that make them protagonists of their own learning.
Real problems
Cases drawn from the contemporary world, with operational constraints and measurable objectives.
Simulazioni
Protected environments to try out choices, mistakes and problem-solving strategies.
Collaborative activities
Teamwork with roles, responsibilities and structured collection of evidence.
Ricerca
Guided exploration, data collection, critical analysis and reasoned synthesis.
Progettazione
Planning, prototyping and iterative review of concrete solutions.
Concrete project work
Tangible outputs: reports, presentations, multimedia products and prototypes.
ACTIVATION AND SUPPORT
How to get started and what is included
The service is cloud-based: you access it from a browser, with no installation on the school’s side.
Immediate activation
No installation: credentials are delivered following subscription.
Annual term
Subscriptions start from the beginning of the next school year and remain valid for the whole reference year, renewable on the same terms.
Support included
First-level support for the whole duration of the licence: access to the platform, explanation of the basic functions, support with day-to-day use, checking of malfunctions and opening of tickets, by phone, email or chat.
SECURITY AND PRIVACY
A controlled digital environment
The platform operates within a controlled digital environment, with attention to IT security, access management and the handling of information. The integrated Artificial Intelligence is designed as an operational support for the design and management of learning pathways.
Data and access
Protection of personal data, access management and handling of digital information.
IT security
Security standards in the use of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence.
Responsible use of AI
AI operates within an environment geared to the educational context, with the teacher’s supervision of every pathway.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Everything you need to know about DreamShaper
What it is, how it is used, how pathway creation with AI works and how data is handled.
What is DreamShaper?
It is a digital environment for active teaching and project-based learning pathways: it lets you acquire or generate project design pathways, manage them, monitor them and document them through to competence-based assessment. It is a software platform marketed by Gruppo Spaggiari Parma S.p.A. for the Italian school market.
Which school levels is it for?
All of them: primary, lower secondary and upper secondary school, and also in university settings. The pathways adapt to the school level and field of study.
What role does Artificial Intelligence play?
It supports design. Starting from a prompt describing the project idea, the platform proposes a structure for the pathway – phases, activities, evidence, assessment – which the teacher reviews, adapts and validates before assigning it to the class. Pedagogical and methodological decisions remain with the teacher.
Who can create the pathways?
The school chooses how to organise itself: it can commission the pathways from Spaggiari, or assign a teacher or a team of teachers, or authorise all teachers, to create them independently with the pathway creation software.
Which methodologies does it support?
Project Based Learning and Inquiry Based Learning, together with workshop-based teaching and competence-based design. It integrates with UDA (learning units), FSL (school-work training), civic education, interdisciplinary activities and curriculum design.
Can it be used for an individual student?
Yes. Pathways can be designed for an individual student – including those with special educational needs – for collaborative working groups, or for the whole class and the whole school, with monitoring and collection of evidence in all three cases.
Are technical skills needed to activate it?
No. It is a cloud-based service: you access it from a browser, with no installation on the school’s side. Credentials are delivered following subscription. Those who produce pathways independently receive a training session of about three hours, held remotely.
How long does the activation last?
One year. Subscriptions start from the beginning of the next school year and remain valid for the whole reference year; renewal is on the same terms.
How is data handled?
The platform operates in a controlled digital environment, with attention to the protection of personal data, IT security, access management and the handling of digital information.
PARLIAMONE
Would you like to see DreamShaper with a class from your school?
We start from the pathways you already run: we show you how a pathway is designed with the platform, what remains documented at the end and how to assess by competences.
Tailor-made pathways
Designed with you around the school’s fields of study, objectives and needs.
Training for self-producers
A training session of about three hours, held remotely, for those who create pathways independently. Those who commission pathways from Spaggiari do not need training.
DreamShaper is a platform developed internationally and used in 122 countries. Gruppo Spaggiari Parma S.p.A. is its distributor for Italy and markets it for the Italian school market: activation, training and first-level support are provided by Spaggiari. The product’s official website is dreamshaper.com.