Unblocking Student Minds - Using Lego to Enhance Student Creativity and Critical Thinking

Unblocking Student Minds Using Lego to Enhance Student Creativity and Critical Thinking

Principles: Emphasis on metaphor Everyone has an obligation to

build and the right to tell the story in the Lego model The builder owns the Lego model

and its story and accept the builder’s meaning and story in the Lego model

Dr Andy Clegg Principal Lecturer Learning and Teaching

Question the Lego model and its

story not the person [Kristiansen and Rasmussen, 2014]

Unblocking Student Minds Using Lego to Enhance Student Creativity and Critical Thinking Serious play is not about the building of literal models but rather constructing metaphorical and symbolic creations that represent problems, solutions, realisations, and models of communication…’

[James and Brookfield, 2014, p. 116]

Principles: Emphasis on metaphor Everyone has an obligation to

build and the right to tell the story in the Lego model The builder owns the Lego model

and its story and accept the builder’s meaning and story in the Lego model Question the Lego model and its

story not the person [Kristiansen and Rasmussen, 2014]

Planning for Play

Level 4

Level 5

Level 6

Idea Development > Strategy Formulation

Indicative Application Techniques (AT): Building Individual Models and Stories

Building Shared Models and Stories

Creating a Landscape

Systems & Making Connections

Lego Serious Play in Action

everybody builds everybody shares, everybody speaks

Lego Serious Play in Action

everybody builds everybody shares, everybody speaks

Lego Serious Play in Action Lessons Learnt:

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everybody builds everybody shares, everybody speaks