LEGO Education
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The document discusses the concept of optimal challenge in learning, where challenging children at the right level leads to optimal learning, while too much or too little challenge can cause anxiety or boredom respectively. It also outlines four C's - connect, construct, contemplate, continue - as ways to incorporate optimal challenge into learning by connecting to prior knowledge, constructing with hands and knowledge, contemplating patterns and sharing new knowledge, and continuing new skills. The goal is to keep students in a state of "flow" for efficient learning.
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LEGO Education
- 1. Academy
- 3. Three simple rules Build a model Give a meaning Share your story
- 4. Build your version of a nightmare Teacher Trainer
- 5. Flow For optimal learning, children need to be challenged at just the right level Challenges Excessive Optimal challenge challenge leads to optimal may cause learning anxiety Insufficient challenge may cause boredom Skills Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi Professor at Claremont Graduate University since 1999
- 6. Four Cs Connect Construct Contemplate Continue
- 7. Connect Connect to what the students know already Tickle the students curiosity
- 8. Construct When you are constructing things with your hands you are simultaneously constructing knowledge in your head
- 9. Contemplate Understanding the pattern understanding what happens if and sharing our new knowledge with others is a very efficient way of learning
- 10. Continue Putting newly acquired knowledge and skills into the next assignment we are constantly seeking flow and when we are in flow we are learning the most!
- 11. Fun What two products have the highest play value?