Brick by Brick PD: Playful Learning and Making
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This document provides an agenda and notes for a professional development session focused on play-based learning and design thinking. The goals are to make new friends, work as a team, enhance prior learning, understand the importance of play, infuse play into the classroom, and have fun. Activities include forming groups, creating unique high-fives with a new friend, and building an "Enchanted Forest" with LEGOs. Discussion topics relate classroom connections to literacy, math, science, and more. Participants are encouraged to be curious, take risks, share their work, and experiment between sessions.
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Brick by Brick PD: Playful Learning and Making
- 2. You have the following time to do so Clear off everything except for the piece of paper provided …………. Organize yourself into groups of at least 4 Put your name on the paper!!
- 3. Designing Elements of Learning: Brick by Brick
- 4. This isn’t a show up and throw up presentation.
- 5. I have one personal goal…….
- 6. To not feel like this about PD…….
- 7. But to feel like this about PD
- 8. Goals • Make a new friend(s) at TJ • Work with a small team to remember joys of play • Enhance prior learning • Understand importance of play • Infuse play with the classroom • Have fun!
- 9. Find A New Friend
- 11. New Friend Challenge Create a unique high five for only you and your friend! Needs to have 4 transitions
- 15. Photo by Tim Flach
- 16. Hacker noun ˈha-kər One who combines excellence, playfulness, cleverness and exploration into performed activities
- 19. Reality is perception: not a reflection of truth
- 20. –Claude Debussy Music is the silence between the notes
- 23. Talk < Action
- 24. We express who we are through what we make.
- 25. Learning is about stuff that sticks. Photo by Caleb Woods
- 26. Brick Builders Unite! 1. The LEGO build IS the answer 2. Everybody builds and everybody shares. 3. There is no ONE right answer. 4. Think with your hands! 5. Listen with your eyes 6. Be respectful in comments and builds
- 27. Challenge Flow 1 2 3 Part 1: The Challenge Part 2: Building Part 3: Sharing
- 28. Enchanted Forest What type of magical experiences will you create? • A magic tree • A secret cave • House made of magic • Fairies and pixels
- 29. Enchanted Forest Build Planning Time
- 32. Classroom Connections Idea Prompt Literacy Math Science Social Studies STEM Music Universal Constructs
- 33. Your hands know a lot more than you think they know! Photo by Jeremy Yap
- 34. Making is an energy that relates the parts to make a new whole! Photo by Jeremy Yap
- 37. The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a child of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. Seymour Papert
- 38. Children are current people • More than future employers • More than an ID # on a spreadsheet • More than making a school look good Children matter NOW!
- 39. What will your story be?
- 45. Ideas need to become things!
- 46. Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
- 47. Now What?
- 48. Action Goal Write down one thing you plan to experiment with between now and end of October.
- 49. Accountability Exchange Goals & High Five
- 50. Session Feedback What was something unexpected you learned today? What do you need to move forward in the work? What lingering questions do you still have?