Playful Learning

Objectives & Aims:

Rethink the role of school, learning and educators
Understand playful learning and recognize the role of play in learning
Experience and experiment tools and games to define, design and deliver new forms of powerful education
Exchange experiences with peers to foster the development of a community of practice

Contents:

Discover the love for Play (or a theoretical argument for playing in class)
What is playful learning and how can we use it for learning purposes
Free ply vs structured play
Tools, resources and games to play and assess playful experiences

Key Concepts:

“Our approach is based on four core elements, which we sometimes call the Four P’s of Creative Learning:
• Projects. People learn best when they are actively working on meaningful projects – generating new ideas, designing prototypes, refining iteratively.
• Peers. Learning flourishes as a social activity, with people sharing ideas, collaborating on projects, and building on one another’s work.
• Passion. When people work on projects they care about, they work longer and harder, persist in the face of challenges, and learn more in the process.
• Play. Learning involves playful experimentation – trying new things, tinkering with materials, testing boundaries, taking risks, iterating again and again.”
Mitchel Resnick, MIT

“Even though play is a universal experience, it is also a cultural construct. Who children play with, when and where they play, when they stop playing … these are all determined by communities, the resources available, and teachers’ leaning goals.” Lynneth Solis, Project Zero Harvard

Methodology:

The course is designed as an immersive experience - a learning journey supported by a real project based learning school. The learning process will foster an effective personal and professional transformation

Other information

Language: English
Trainer: Ana Barroca
Duration: 5 days
Investment: 400 euros
Next edition: to be announced

! Elegible for funding from Erasmus+ KA1