Course | Social Learning to Thrive Through Play

Description

Duration: 3 weeks
Weekly study: 1 hour

Understand how children play to learn, and harness that power to develop their social and collaboration skills in your classroom.

- Discover Why Social Interaction is a Powerful Tool for Learning and Development
By collaborating, communicating, and understanding other people’s perspectives, children develop a better understanding of their thoughts and feelings as well as critical skills that are essential to success throughout life. This three-week course from the LEGO Foundation will show you how to harness these social interactions for maximum effect.

- Explore How Children Play to Learn and Why That’s Important
Children have an amazing natural potential to learn about the world through play and learning through play is crucial for children’s positive development. On this dynamic course, you will explore play-based activities that allow children to engage freely and bond with others, express their feelings, and work together as a team. All these skills are essential for children’s wellbeing, academic achievement, and lifelong learning.

Throughout the course, you’ll see examples that show how children can play to develop collaboration and social learning skills, including belonging, dialogue, and risk-taking.

- Harness Collaborative and Social Learning Every Day
After explaining the importance and effectiveness of learning through play, this course will show you how to bring those activities to your own classroom. You’ll use social and collaborative learning activities that are easy to apply in group settings, and detailed explanations on how to facilitate them, so that you are well-equipped to develop interaction, dialogue, and the important mental faculties that come with them.

- Learn From Passionate Child Development Experts
The LEGO Foundation works to change the hearts and minds of those involved in child development so that they really encourage social learning. It is perfectly positioned to show you activities that help children become creative, engaged, and lifelong learners.

- Learning on This Course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

Facilitators

1. Stuart MacAlpine
Stuart is the Initiative Lead for the playful schools initiative at the LEGO Foundation. His background is in programme design and school leadership.

2. Anita Le Tissier
Hello! I am a Principal Teacher from Edinburgh, Scotland. I am an Early Years specialist teacher with a passion for play based learning throughout the primary school and beyond.

3. Jan Christensen
I am specialized in online facilitation and have been exploring different ways for training teachers online both at the University of Southern Denmark and at the LEGO Foundation.

What Will You Achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Apply a play-based methodology that develops children's social and collaboration skills
- Practice the principles of learning through play and playful facilitation

Who is The Course for?

This course has been designed for individuals working with children aged 4-12, who want to unlock the many benefits of developing and learning through play.

Prices

This course is free. Other pricing options are available:

• Unlimited Monthly
$24.99 per month
Automatically renews

• Unlimited Annual
$174.99 for one year
Automatically renews

For further information, please visit Future Learn website.

Syllabus

Week 1: Play Matters
Week 2: Collaboration Skills
Week 3: Social Skills

Who Developed the Course?

The LEGO Foundation
The LEGO Foundation aims to build a future in which learning through play empowers children to become creative, engaged, lifelong learners. Read about our different programmes, projects we support, our research agenda and more in this section.

What's Included?

The LEGO Foundation are offering everyone who joins this course a free digital upgrade, so that you can experience the full benefits of studying online for free. This means that you get:

- Unlimited access to this course
- Includes any articles, videos, peer reviews and quizzes
- A PDF Certificate of Achievement to prove your success when you’re eligible