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The paper offers a review of the development of the work of Alberto Manzi, pedagogue, television teacher and children's book writer. Beginning with some choices made in the production of the well-known RAI program "Non è mai troppo tardi," it shows how the "maestro degli italiani" set much of his work focusing on the importance of the image as a medium in relation to the written and spoken word. The educator thus anticipated fundamental themes such as that of visual literacy, particularly decisive in a historical period in which visual media erode the secular power of print, basing his reflection on studies not only pedagogical but also iconological and mediological. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Analyzing a television Edutainment format – The Albero Azzurro – conceived and broadcast on TV more than thirty years ago and still programmed today, we will try to re-read and re-actualize its pedagogical scope, also in the light of the changes produced by the pervasive nature of new technologies. What were its educational and didactic implications? What are the possible implications and future challenges in the television convergence society? Starting from the examination of the videodocumentation of this experimentation of the 90s, we will outline its distinctive features by declining them in their potential educational uses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]