Imagine If 2021: Is Creative Technology a way to promote 'Learning over Failing'? - LEGO Foundation
well good morning everyone and welcome to what is the final session uh in what has also been a brilliant week at imagine if so this morning we are delighted to be joined by ola from the lego foundation all the way from the home of the brick in billand denmark and in this session we're looking at is creative technology a way to promote learning over failing so as i'm sure you know by now today's session is of course part of our imaginative digital conference series with this year's exploring the theme imagine if creativity gave us the freedom to learn without inhibition and to accept mistakes as part of our lifelong discovery my name is andrew garros and i am area manager for north tyne at arts mark an arts market lead for culture bridge northeast and we are part of arts council england's national network of bridge organizations connecting the education and arts and cultural sectors together to enable better access to quality arts and cultural education for all children and young people no matter their circumstances so a few bits of housekeeping and as i'm sure you're all aware of by now on zoom it'd be great if you could um keep your microphones muted unless you're speaking and we suggest you put your settings on speaker view so you can see whoever is presenting full screen rather than everyone else in the room um it'd be great if you could if you haven't already i think most people have if you could get your um to adjust your name on your zoom video if you right click and you can change that so we can see who who's here and of course if you have a question um please put it in the chat box as we go along and we'll deal with them um either throughout the session or at the end and also this year we have closed captions available so just click on the live transcript button with the two c's at the bottom and then click on show subtitle uh we gather some consent in your booking forms but just to further the reminder that the session is being recorded and will be used as a digital resource and will be available on our youtube channel for next week and please feel free to share your work workshop experience on social media i'm using the twitter handle um culture bridge at culture bridge any and using this year's conference hashtag hashtag imaginef21 and we're joined again today by danny who's our stage manager so if you have any technical issues feel free to get in touch with them via the chat and i think now it's time to hand over to ola and i hope you have a good session thank you so much andre uh and uh good morning everybody um [Music] i will just um shortly introduce myself my name is alex mason as um uh and as andrew said i am based here in berlin denmark at lego campus today my role here at the lego foundation is i'm a project specialist within our danish initiative and also within our tech and play initiative which is a program working globally around technology robotics creative coding tinkering making so forth i am a teacher by training so i've been a teacher for 10 11 years and municipality consultants after that i've been involved in developing the curriculum around technology literacy in denmark as a part of the ministry of education and then three years ago i joined the foundation um to start developing uh some of our thoughts around digital learning through play uh but we'll get much more into that later on like we are quite a small group so i'll invite you all just to jump in if you have any questions or comments or like see this as an opportunity to reflect together rather than just hear me talk but i will talk on you for the next couple of of minutes but before we go to that i will share my screen and um when andrew uh came to me and talked about um talked about creativity technology uh how we see that how that how we can promote this as a way of thinking about learning instead of failing i think it resonated very well with what i stand for and what we in the lego foundation stand for but more on that later i'd like you to invite you to as a first just to shortly introduce yourself uh i'll be using mentee.com over the of for the full time so if you have a second screen a phone or a tablet or you can also use your computer uh go to mentee.com or scan the qr code and and then introduce yourself in a few few words you can see the code at the top of the screen so um [Music] just try to pull out your your second screens uh just go back so you can see the qr code again there you go i'll just take a minute for everybody to get familiar with uh with the with minty.com
it seems like we need new tools to to make these digital experiences more interactive i think yeah this is one way to go around that yeah are you all good go let's see if something come in so just uh give a short introduction name your interests your work your last playful experience or what you are up to for the weekend just a few words on who you are and where you come from hi david sounds awesome like being an old music teacher myself uh it's uh the balance in between your ears bleeding and actually like the best times of your life right yeah oh fantastic family week in the way sounds sounds great neither these days and it can be as short as you wish just a few words is beautiful hi sue great to see you there let's just have two sets here cool now popping in natalie jillian beautiful i love playing with lego bricks yeah me too just built the like just built the recent uh adult kit it was the fender stratocaster came out a couple of weeks ago that's awesome kid um crazy awesome sounds great cool so thank you so much for um for this introduction just nice to have a bit more a bit more idea who's uh behind the screens so for the next couple of minutes just see we have there we go brilliant sarah welcome perfectly awesome thank you for that uh so now we are familiar with menzie as well i'll be using that a couple of times during the presentation so but i'll just uh introduce you to these three uh maniacs they are my true inspiration in everyday in my everyday life my three kids um it's a bit old picture though uh they are now uh eight eight and eleven uh i have uh i have added this picture to to the presentation just to remind myself that for the next couple of minutes when talking about target groups and wheel of impacts this is why we're actually doing it for the benefit of the children that said uh we have a shared uh mission with the lego group so uh and it it comes from inspiring and developing the builders of tomorrow and that's really at the core of what we're trying to pull together across all uh lego entities i'll get back to that more more on that but the lego foundation is a part uh is 25 owner of the lego group so that's where our funding come from um and um we share this vision uh and we sit together with the the uh some of the other entities uh at lego campus here in berlin but we also also have uh uh field offices and country offices in south africa and ukraine and in mexico at a glance the lego foundation we are a corbett foundation we are about 120 plus people now um and we work across the globe and we have uh over 100 very trusted partnerships that helps us build the impact that we see for children uh which really is about systemically reaching all children with learning through play we do this through these this wheel of impact and as mentioned we try to build programs and identify and support programs that demonstrate learning through plain practice we follow up and drive evidence to show the value of these efforts and then we'd use this to to create buy-in from stakeholders and our main stakeholders are not necessarily the children at a first we see them as our beneficiaries but we are working with these core groups like having pair parents and caregivers teachers and practitioners and the systems and governments at the very core of what we're doing our aim is to challenge and change the attitudes and behavior from these listed audiences and we need to do that to equip them and empower them to think differently about learning through play so when we are talking about play it's not as a very fixed set of ideas but we are aiming to redefine play and reimagine learning so play is often overlooked that's some of the most powerful ways for children to actually develop the skills that we're talking about to thrive in in today's world um and learning should be much more than just con content acquisition um like equally important uh that is the create creative problem solving critical thinking 21st century skills or transformative change skills or whatever we call them these days and we see play as the very natural way for children to to to gain these skills um that is why we advocate for building a future where learning through play empowers children to become these creative engaged and lifelong learners uh by learning uh through play so nobody fell asleep i'm glad uh some is off cam that's all right um but um now i would like to invite you to play along so the next prompt is really to for us to think about a playful experience a playful situation from our own childhood something that really comes to mind when you think about something that was truly playful for you so we'll take a couple of minutes grab your office materials around you that can be as easy as a pen or paper it can also be something that you just pull together with what you have at hand all good it's nothing that we need to it's just a reflection tool but take a couple of minutes to think about what kind of playful situation or experience do you think of from your own childhood try to put it down on paper or in in practice take a picture of it and upload it to the padlet where we have the qr code and i know that we'll have the link for the patent also in the chat so let's take a couple of minutes to think about this build something not important how it looks like it's just as a reflection tool pull it up in the padlet and put a couple of words uh on that later on but for now just think about the experience and try to build it or create it and put the picture up on the padlet all right so we'll have uh let's say four minutes to create and then we will uh reflect together at the end of it okay just make sure that naturally it's okay it's okay uh no pressure uh just uh think about it what was actually the funny part of it or what was actually the playful part of of that experience cool [Music] so [Music] so see so all right stuff is coming in i can see we have uh somebody been in contact with the duck we'll get back to that any other coming in yeah yeah all good cool all right let's get them you can take your time to upload the stuff i'm sure how to share my image yeah and okay all good manly don't worry um so do you have the padlet in front of you you on the phone yeah can you press the plus button in the left right corner and then you should be able to upload a picture no okay all good all good don't worry oh that's the that's the um cool now we got him i'll just um go back here just a second um and make sure we do have this qr code okay this is actually what digital technology is all about iterating and try again test and try out all good okay okay we'll just um take a look at the at the pictures here wow it looks social laughs safety environment i am not sure what this is it looks cool something with led lights and glass and stuff cool fun fast free yeah roller skating awesome media to see the effects using junk to create useful beautiful things wow ray and love the colors on this one really cool really cool and here we have a nice in the woods hanging there it actually looks quite dangerous and i think that is something that really resonated with with my build here i was as unprepared as you sorry but building the caves so my reflection was really about building caves outside without any adults near to steer and tell me what's right and wrong and there was quite some danger in the mix as well cool thank you so much for sharing uh let's go back to to the side could you could i ask you to and now for for those who not necessarily um made the build but reflections around a couple of words that describe your playful experience what actually were the elements in that experience that resonated with with play what made it playful for you let's just uh take two minutes to add a couple of words on that danger experimentation challenge yeah great here we go social breaking rules meaning experimentation freedom fun challenge join the solo yeah into the pit it is awesome so thank you for for sharing these um these words uh keep them coming if you have uh more more in there so we have done this exercise uh many many times and what strikes us every time is how similar they are across the globe so it seems like there's something fundamentally connected to play wherever wherever you sit uh whenever you had the experience whether it was like we could do this exercise as well thinking about an adult memory of of play like when you play paddle tennis or if you go for a hike or whatever is similar to the characteristics of playful experiences and we have tried to pull all these experiences together and try to use our knowledge network to see across see what kind of characteristics can we pull out and we have whip at depth one back so what came out of that exercise was five characteristics of playful experiences being actively engaging meaningful iterative social interactive and joy as something that is really at the core of playful experiences across ages across geographies countries settings high low income this is really what's come to mind when we are talking about playful learning experiences there we have done um peace as you can see uh the link at the bottom here we can share that link to some of our resources which is already all also available on our website where all our white papers and resources are collected and to for you um so but this is uh really to just to flag that that we have something very very closely connected to to play and we see this as something that we need to build into every interactions that we need that we have with children the thing is that this is not a fixed set so this is very vibrant it is something that sometimes or if you think about again your own childhood experiences some of it have might have been super joyful other times it's been more iterative like we connect something to being hard fun and not necessarily in the easy win but it's very very meaningful for for kids to engage with it's often iterative it's something they come back to building constructing and often as also some of you uh posted is something that we do with peers so it's uh the the element of social interactive interactions with other are at the very foundation of of a lot of these playful experiences that not said that you cannot have playful experiences on your own for sure you can but but in general a lot of these exercises are connected to something we have together with others so next build next exercise are you ready natalie here we go cool we want to build the dock so the dock is very at the very er is an icon in the lego group it's an icon in the lego foundation it's what we actually started out building it was a wooden duck which was the very first toy that ola kirk christensen came out of the factory here in berlin uh that we have made into uh experience as some of you posted uh that is a brick set but it's also something we try to pull together as a digital experience for you these days to experience so what i would like you to do is follow the the link or the qr code and try to follow the instructions there uh please unmute your mic if there's something um not working there but um try to follow the [Music] the link as or the instructions there try to build your own doc and um and then we will uh try to have a look at that after a couple of minutes i think we will take five minutes to build and feel free to build another when you're done it's it's not a it doesn't take much time so feel free just to to add all right all good oh we have the first duck in beautiful can you hear it quacking or is it just me cool i remember andrew we did this last time as well and i i did it for the first time and i was really wondering what was happening like the the quacking i didn't get it at the time it's meant to be there we have a single lonely duck in the pond i'm a duck yes you sure are you just pull up the qr code if somebody needs it beside ah now there's more than one i can hear wow look at the pond now this was this was the actually first first duck [Laughter] this is some of the words that you have chosen at the reflection wow let's um give them some confetti there we go awesome well we could uh keep on building ducks for the rest of the day um i'll just pull that off definitely close the sound [Music] okay so um [Music] was it fun yeah all right cool okay cool so i would now like for you to uh reflect a bit on the exercise so what did you actually gain from that what kind of experience was it any reflections please feel free to just unmute yourself what do you think uh like when you saw the different ducks what stroke you with that any reflections on that anyone yeah um i would just like to say that when you look at all the ducks well it's kind of like it doesn't matter what shape what size what position what it's kind of your your mind just flowing to whatever you've got you know you've got three bricks or four blocks or whatever you've decided to use and it doesn't really matter the shape size position of a duck it's it can be a duck it's a duck it's a duck yeah yeah exactly yeah brilliant thank you sue other reflections i was going to say more or less in as much as like there's no right way to build a duck or there's no one way to build a duck um and also just for me i don't know anyone else i was using my phone and i had to just experiment and play about a bit to figure out how to move the the pieces around and rotate them and all that so it's just like without having instructions just getting on with it is a good way to to learn experimentation yeah thank you david any other reflections so that was me that cheated earlier and put the duck on because yeah obviously but we uh in a job previous to this built an entire conference around this because it was called every duck is different it was about diversity um it was it's brilliant you can build a hundred 150 every single one of them is different yeah exactly so i think and and that is something that is very close to our hearts and the foundation as well like making that shift in education where instead of talking about like uh two plus two equals and uh any of you have the answer to that one no it's the difficult one right for natalie right you're a good student like really really you are amazing thank you so much but if we actually took the chance to having that openness to our way of talking about education with children and flip it so we instead say four equals and now it's your turn like what is four actually equal can you come up with some suggestions put it up on mentee.com um we'll take just a few minutes to this on this exercise but let's hear from you a couple of suggestions on 4 equals something let me see i think do you have it on the chat instead that's all right the physical dark build is that's all right is it stuck here or yeah i've posted a couple of answers in there and there we go three lines linked together the age of my daughter the time i set off for my fun weekend away four beats to the bar great oh my god i i hope you're right snow white is amazing brilliant brilliant frame rain awesome so this is the whole idea of having uh open-ended uh questions as a uh at the very core of what we uh what we do with children right um so when we do the physical duct build or um ah digital duct build it doesn't matter there's a lot at stake your brain was actually working like crazy and um perhaps you had that as you said david uh actually started perhaps even being a bit anxious about the the task how can i manage this this is actually some so you have to self-regulate you have to envision a duck you have to use your long-term memory have to adjust and and and visually identify the dark and now you only have six bricks to do it with how do that so there's a lot at stake and these skills all is a part of what is happening when we play in general 24 skills are used in this short exercise this is not very easy to communicate in any way so we asked again the team of of of knowledge partner that we have in the foundation to try to convene this into a more uh communicative format and they came up with five uh skills of holistic development like again this is not rocket science we have a billion words for this 21st century skills etc etc etc but this is at the very core of what we're trying to to achieve um and we have like talking about holistic skills we see this as a huge hugely complex [Music] effort and we need to focus on balancing these kind of different skills in schools like we can all agree i think on some of these skills are definitely more um present in in our current school systems i know they definitely are in denmark and i'm sure it goes for the uk as well um so this is what we try to achieve with our partners across [Music] we have this white paper that came out a couple of years ago called learning through play at school where they try to try to map out some of these integrated pedagogies that are in their core playful in terms of building on these holistic skills having some of the notions of opportunities at least to to be playful uh we know them that's project based learning problem uh based learning inquiry based expense experimental learning so forth and we can dive into that even more but just saying that a lot of what we're already doing in schools have the potential to become playful learning it's not as it is per se but it can be so this is what we're trying to to push forward that we need to build those social emotional and physical and creative skills into the more academic skill sets so when we have these play qualities at the center and we put this child in the center of what we try to achieve this is some something that we need to embrace that we build on children's inner motivation that we create a safe environment for them to experiment in and we try to empower them and and and really to gain give them the agency trim to to to drive their own learning agendas uh in whatever they do we have a very dear uh ambassador and um playmate in the lego foundation in the lifelong kindergarten group mitch resnick at the mit media lab and mitch has these four p's as at the core of how they see creative learning um in short they believe the best way to cultivate creativity is to support people working on projects based on their passion in collaboration with their peers in a playful spirit so i think if when we in a little while try to dive into um what they what for them it it then looks like i think the playfulness is really something that challenge a lot of people how can we actually make it playful because we can easily put project-based learning at the forefront of what we do we can set up whole school systems to be be project-based learning but it isn't the same as actually have have it to be playful uh iterative interactive and so forth so we really need to think carefully about how we set up this and what kind of language we use about it and to actually create a nuanced language around play and playful learning i think that is something that we have seen become clear to us that it's really a matter of not having a nuanced language around what play playful learning is so mitch did the creative learning spiral i i imagine a lot of you have seen it before but start about imma start with the imagination start about thinking about what i want to achieve try to create something play around with it share it with others reflect on that and and re-imagine and read so that cycle what i'd like you to think about we'll see a four minute video um and i'd like you to see how many times do these kids go around this spiral so how many times do they actually actually imagine stuff how many times do they create or recreate or reflect or remix stuff uh in the next couple of minutes and then we come come back here let's see if this works so this sharing and uh just you couldn't hear it right there was no audio no we couldn't hear it yeah you could hear it beautiful cool martin and sebastian are best friends the boys live next door and literally construct their relationship through the joint building of new meanings and interpretations many great inventors are built from the imagination and experimentation in the living room and the garden martin and sebastian want to also build a cave outside building a cave in the garden forces the children to rethink what they thought they knew [Music] so how do you get a stick in the ground if you don't have a hammer use another stick mechanic now the hair and hammer building a cave will take experimentation and several iterations the materials are new to them and the forces of nature are clearly felt the boys of the twin tree must really work together if the ground is frozen and you're too small try something else the children need to come up with a new strategy new materials and new approaches are needed new iterations are needed when you cannot do what you thought was possible [Applause] thank you [Music] and [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] martin and sebastian have built the cave and strengthened their relationship by a trial and error deep thought and practical experimentation in several iteration stages [Music] so how many cycles did you go through i don't answer don't answer but uh what kind of reflections do you have when you see this video i think what comes to my mind beside the fact that at the end he says he's actually already on to the next build like in his imaginations as actually already there uh i i like that but i think yeah any uh reflections on on this short video constructive play yeah and please unmute if uh if you feel like it i was just going to say that um it was really obvious that you've kind of got to have that last lesser fair attitude when they're playing that they have to go into what i've classed as like the pit where they've got a problem they're going at the pit they've got to try and figure out how to get out the pit and then they develop like an answer and then they go back to the start and they've got a problem and they go back in the pit and if you try to help them out with it they're not going to get as enriched with their learning they're not going to develop those answers themselves um and that's how you build like the really strong like learning skills that you need so it's like quite nice to see that really obviously shown in that video that leaving them they figured it out really well themselves yeah thank you natalie any other reflections more in the chat i like how it shows that you yes you have imagination but then um you learn that uh it's context specific or that um the realism comes in so you have to figure out the ways that yeah it's all right to have that imagination but you need to figure out how to make it happen in real life so it's about kind of those executive functions cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control and figuring out how to make things actually work yeah yeah thank you andrew yeah i think uh we have tried to develop a tool for actually being able to nuance these um these uh like mapping videos or experiences uh and that's something that we are testing out right now to have a more clear answer to what is actually happening in the in the playful situation and not just having that gut feeling of this is this is um and i think video can really helps us being super clear on what is actually happening in in these situations what i would like to ask you i don't know how many of you come from a teacher background or are working with children i think the challenge is here how do we make that space for reflection in our daily work and something that i really find challenging to have as a teacher to create that space uh to have to take a step back and actually be able to to to look at at the experiences that we have but our children have in our classrooms okay so i'll um i'll jump ahead please feel free to to jump in if you have any questions or comments um but i would like to um to to take this opportunity to talk a bit about the complexity of adaptive systems uh and how i see like when i started at the teacher training years back this was something that really really resonated well with me to see these complex patterns and as something that i could not or cannot manage uh but i can follow along and i think um i don't know how many of you remember the butterfly effect movie like it was perhaps a b b movie anyway but uh i think it it illustrated how a classroom actually is and i think uh when i started to think about this presentation i had this i had this picture of a teacher seeing herself as a dj with two turntables in front of her mixing her doing her perfect remix but in fact in a classroom we have like 28 or 30 djs they have more than one turntable per per child they are remixing across all kind of music genres totally asynchronous so they do not have a um they do not have a fixed um fixed structure to to to go to move forward and i think these as if we see these uh classrooms and interactions as variables that we have very little control over in fact um what do we then need uh if they are in constant flow and super sensitive at all time like uh if peter did not have breakfast well you can you can forget all about english english language class or or outcomes right um so there's so it's so fragile and on the other hand it's only fragile if we if we do not see the value in these kind of this kind of flexibility so what i'm trying to say here is that we need some other outset we need some other frameworks to handle these kind of super complex systems and it seems like uh our way of putting traditional education together just fall short on this i think as a part of a program we are doing in denmark together with the teacher training colleges in across denmark called playful learning and what they have done is set up these uh principles or a basis for how they they see this and we we have discussed or talked about the play qualities and the characteristics of play being something in the mix um and it is about learning and developing a shared understanding of what it looks like but at the top of this is something very fundamental about some kind of guiding principles that is not something that we can copy-paste from others it's really something that is situated in my classroom with the kids i have in front of me it's something that we need to co-create together in classrooms or in schools in teams [Music] when we first started out with the playful learning program and they had a blank a blank sheet of paper in front of them and they started to talk about what was it they want to achieve what kind of learning did they want to see what kind of experience experiences that they want to see this is on higher education i might say that this is the lecturers and the students within the teacher training colleges that talked about this in this manner but i think there's some interesting perspective in having these discussions on on school level in primary and second and lower secondary secondary schools at the playful learning program they had developed three core principles that really shouldn't be um in in infused in all their interactions in all their prototypes one was daring to go for the unpredictability um and not necessarily have the fixed answer [Music] it's not possible or disciples who could control so there's a bit of this loss of control a lot of teachers feel when they are opening their education teaching up to to more experimental ways of working um that seems challenging if you do not have it as something that you do do with great intentions and and intentionality another one is create these shared perceptions of playful learning so having having this as a uh the the foundation of what we do and the final one uh was insisting on creating meaning for everybody so this really took took up the the battle with some more traditional lecturing going on in the teacher training but what would this look like if we put as mentioned earlier if we put the child in the center of the experience what does it then take for us to um to to how do we frame that how do we make it it meaningful for the children i think this is some of the reflections that i would love for teachers and school leaders to have across and not something only going on in teacher training colleges all right any questions or comments on this yeah all good all right we'll jump uh into uh something a bit different and we'll start by uh watching a short video just to get our whoa whoa whoa just to get our thinking um lined up so um i'll talk a bit about iteration so we'll try to dive into uh that specific characteristic of play about iterating and i think that the outset of talking about creative technology is as a mean to actually have more um open and experimental and iterative learning i think that is something that some of these tools really put at the forefront so it's all about it's all about prototyping it's all about iteration uh i'll introduce to you a program called tinkercad i don't know if you know it already for those of you who who don't know it i'll introduce it but let's just watch a short video here with a ryan talking about his quite cool project i first used tinkercad just to like try it out and like design actually i have a fake card company and i designed like a logo for it i wanted to have like that experience of driving um like a car or something as realistic as that so i wanted to create a car simulator and i needed a place to mount the shifter for like the stick shift like in a real car i first designed it on a piece of paper there's going to be two poles going through here to the shifter which will be like next to the seat um and then i created this prototype version of it out of wood but it didn't the angles of the holes didn't really work the reason i try to use sink again is it's easier to calculate exactly what um each hole in the mount needs to be in it's easier than drilling a hole like because then all you have to do is just like do it online and then be able to print that out without having to like um get make mistakes on this like you can always redo it well more but with a piece of wood once you're done with this like you can't really [Music] so obviously um autodesk provided us with this amazing video that in mind i do feel like tinkercad is a truly cool tool it's free so if you are connected to teaching in schools teacher whatever then it's free to use and what i like about the boy's reflection here is that it's something that when you drill the hole in the wood it's done like it's a done deal it it's it's a one-off opportunity to make it right uh he's talking about this is only something going on online which is actually a way of saying well it's super super easy for me to change bits and pieces over over time and this is something that is from the um this is just a project from tinkercad there's a huge community there where people are uploading their projects and what i like to to place attention to is the level of focus on sharing like sharing is at the very core of these communities and what they do so well they invite people to copy and tinker with their projects and i like this is something that um that really resonated with the way i wanted to present the opportunities in in these kind of experiences with children is that this is not yours yeah it's for sure it's your project but it's something that you you uh put out uh in in in a public space where people can uh use reflect and copying it so i think um i just recently uh read the book still like an artist and i love this idea that we learn by copying we take we're talking about practice here not about plagiarism so we're talking about reverse engineering it's in in fact that and if we have this at the very core of our daily uh teaching that this is something that i want people to steal from me because this is super meaningful it's not something that we ask the teachers here something that we need to stop no we actually need to promote it we need to promote that mindset of stealing from each other as something very very very valuable um i did a project a couple of years ago actually five six years ago with some sixth graders i think they did an award show in their class and some of the kids wanted to develop a statue that could be presented and given away at the the award show so they did this um quite cool project um what you need to pay attention to is the the times that this project has been downloaded after the project ended in schools like 13 000 times other people around the world have downloaded these kits projects and each time i showed these numbers to the kids like they were two two centimeters taller each time like they really really grew from seeing that this was something not for them but something that was truly meaningful for others to engage with and i just think that this is something that we often do we often see it as a a closed system like my classroom my school my project week but if we actually open up and see this uh as an opportunity to engage with a wider community with a wider world uh there's so much power to gain gain in that as mentioned before we have a close relationship with um with the lifelong kindergarten group um and the scratch foundation as well and i think this is something that is also at the very heart of of scratch so for those who do not know scratch it's the largest online creative coding program in the world where there is about i think 60 million users on scratch and it is really um very paramount to choose the way they have designed scratch that this is about sharing this about remixing other people's projects so we need to have time to um [Music] we need to let me just uh see if we have it as i yeah just very very briefly uh there's a lot of resources we'll share the links with or the the presentation with you guys afterwards but there's some great inspiration and the way uh another partner of the lego foundation the tinkering studio at the exploratorium have set up their work they've been heavily involved with scratch as well doing some cool stuff with them uh also another partner to us is the brazilian creative learning network which is the largest scratch community outside of the us i love i really love this way of using scratch with very very young kids here they have tried to express their feelings through lockdown and combing but now it's our turn so without further ado i like you to go to bit dot l y slash lf hyphen scratch because it's time for us to play around uh times runs like oh my god but we need to have time for this this is the funny part i've been talking way too much i hope you are in uh um otherwise danny do we have the link in the in the chat cool then i'll just uh jump over to the to scratch okay so when you um when you enter let me just pull it up here [Music] now there it is if you uh enter you will not see this immediately but you will have the opportunity to press press a button in the right right upper right corner see see inside i think it's called right and there you will be able to see the code that is actually um in the pro in the project so just a very short introduction to to scratch you have a go button up here and a stop button up here so if we try to push the green button we'll start the program so we can use arrow up okay i'll do that you can play around with that as well so the idea right now is for you to try this out just mess around with it there's we can't we can't do anything wrong it's not something that we will put anywhere i won't flash it online uh what you do here as long as you do not sign in then you can act if you sign in you can actually share save and share your own projects but as long as you're not saved logged in you can just mess around with the code try out stuff and try to put some new figures in what happens if we change the text here or what does happen if we change the time of some of these interactions um [Music] i will just uh this looks a bit big can i actually zoom out here so just a very brief introduction down here we have what is called sprites and sprites is actually our characters up here so we have fred and we have helen the crab and we have me but you can try to add a new new sprite from the library i want to provide thread with an apple and i can put it up here or is it whatever it is now and we can make it move so now i have marked the apple over here so this is the apples workspace so what i put in here will actually go for the apple and the apple alone so for example i could say i want i want whenever the green button is clicked so whenever the green flag is clicked i want a motion to go uh 10 steps so let's see how it looks like we started here for example and click the green button and it moves you see 10 steps over there that's the only thing right now okay so we'll have roughly seven minutes just to try to pull something uh together or tell a different story or just perhaps even just reflect on how does this resonate with your practices how can you does it actually make sense for you to to think about these kind of remixing ideas or iterative cycles of learning and um and i will just uh have a short a q a or reflection session afterwards so seven minutes to play around with with scratch and then we'll come back and go if you want to delete stuff you just pull it uh pull it away and you can drop it at the left side of the screen then it will just go away ugh okay just a minute to to wrap it up okay so andrew we have 10 minutes left and i just want to make sure that we uh have the opportunity to make a final comment so i think this was pretty much what i chose for you today um i hope it was uh meaningful or some way meaningful to you uh so any uh comments or questions or reflections but feel free to unmute yourself if you're up right ready for weekend definitely a lot of platform jumping in one session yeah got it how does these like um how does these ideas resonate with you like where you sit with what you do in your daily daily work this is something that yeah i would love to hear your your thoughts around that yeah you all good yeah yes cool ah i'd love to hear more about that phd research this site could you share your email address absolutely absolutely thank you we have a [Music] cabinet of curiosity studio we have [Music] dono we have six phds as a part of the research extension for playful learning on teachers and six phds on on social education connected to the playful learning pro program if that oh sorry danny yeah thanks for sharing um if that would be something that you could be interested in all right but then um i think that is this is all for me thank you for for taking your time everybody brilliant well thank you very much for that uh that great workshop it's given us a lot to think about i think and experiment and tinker with um going forward and thanks to all of you for attending and participating so generously um today we hope you've really enjoyed it and really got something out of it um as i said earlier this will be uh has been recorded so it'll be available via our youtube channel from next week um and i think uh danny if you could put the link to a feedback form in the chat that's great thank you and we'll also send that to you in a post workshop email to look out for that it'd be great if you could fill it in and return it to us so we can find out what you thought about the workshop and what you'd like to see from us in the future um i was going to say if you'd like to join us for some more but that's the final one for it's been a great week and we've been able to engage with a lot more people than we would have done in the past uh through a kind of traditional um workshop together but who knows whether we'll do it again this way we'll do a hybrid one who knows and we'll we'll see how how we get on over the next uh the next year um or youtube channel address question is that for ola do you have a your you know is there a lego foundation offer out for my youtube channel address yes we'll send that out to you afterwards sorry yeah like uh we have yeah our learning through play.com new uh website where you can find the the research white papers etc that that i have referred to in the presentation great thank you all right and and uh have you got anything else sorry all good all good awesome right great thank you very much everyone for joining us and uh hope to see you again have a great weekend
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