Hope Doesn’t Arrive Built – You Assemble It
johndabell We often talk about hope as if it’s something that turns up on its own like sunshine breaking through clouds or a sudden feeling that everything will be alright. We…
LEGO
Resource Review: LEGO Education Preschool – DUPLO – Build Me “Emotions”
LEGO Education Preschool – DUPLO – Build Me “Emotions” I’ve always said that playing with LEGO is an emotional experience. Of course LEGO wins the award for Best Hands-on Play…
Literacy and LEGO Minifigures
The centrepieces of any LEGO are the LEGO Minifigures, also known as a ‘minifigs’. They were first introduced in 1978 and since then these instantly recognisable anthropomorphised pieces of plastic…
LEGO Goes Braille
The undisputed champion of tactile learning toys is LEGO. These seemingly simple bricks might have had a humble beginning but they are now a global phenomenon with mass appeal. As…
LEGO Learners Play Well
Instead of giving looters and rioters jail sentences, perhaps we should give them Lego instead. Not to throw, but to build and ‘play well’. The benefits are multifarious. Lego stimulates…
Newsround
Time to press pause and find out what’s been happening in the news.
Newsround
Here’s a few news items from the world of education that have caught my eye…..