Introduce Yourself

Hi everyone,
My name is Ole - joining from Herning in :sunny: :denmark:
I work as a Programme Specialist at the LEGO Foundation and enjoy my spare time with my wife and kids or playing music with my friends.

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Hi Debbie, I just read your reply and would love to learn more about hte work you do at the Children’s museum. What kind of STEAM activities do you do… how do you activate LCL in children visitations, specifically if time is limited and its a group visit.

Looking forward!

Hi, I’m Fergus. I’m a science teacher in Edinburgh, and also an autistic community organiser, writer and occasional sculptor and programmer.

I’ve always been a huge fan of creative learning, and I’ve been a bit frustrated with how hard it is to build it in to the teaching I get to do.

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oh WOW!.. really nice to meet you Shoshannah!..
Would be great to see how we can activate the 4P approach in an interactive exhibit in a museum. I was caught by your ground, having a mix of Psych, and video game AI, and attending this… perhaps we can talk more about digital interactive exhibits and LCL.

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Good day Bwire!
Would love to hear more about your STEM teaching methodologies and projects.
peleasure,

Hi everyone!

My name is Nada from USA and I enjoy STEM programs, design and new learning. My passion for learning and curiosity brought me to LCL community. Looking forward to meeting you all, explore and inspired by your ideas and experiences. :smiley:

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Hey guys! Anaghaa here, a design student. Currently working as an intern at an ED-TECH company based out of India. I am working on my thesis which is based on learning activities. looking forward to learning from this amazing course!!

Cheers!

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Hi! I’m Isabel from Spain. I’m professor in a universitary degree of videogames and I’m studying a Teaching degree to know more about interesting pedagogical approaches.
I love to design game-based. learning experiences, so education and creativity sounds like a perfect mix to me.

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Hello I’m Nadhifa from Jakarta, Indonesia. I’m here to learn more and be creative

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Cool! Here Paco from Málaga (though I’m temporarily writing from Huelva), where are you teaching?? I’m a musician but got interested in video game development a couple of years ago, ended up writing some music for VGs. Found it a very interesting field, both in itself (the somewhat playful approach I often found, the design approach, which I wasn’t used too at all… Very four-Ps in a way) and from a musical perspective (adaptive music and so).

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That’s amazing! I want to follow your posts on here but can’t find an option to do so unfortunately. Looking forward to reading your thoughts!

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Uhhhh, that question :rofl:

Nice to meet you, I just had a kid a couple of months ago and I kind of connect with this feeling of pause button, then rethink what next. I’ve taught music for the last decade, and always found an atraction to this creative learning approach. Also, I had some sparse contact with the VG development world, and found lost of connections with the four Ps (thinking about the development side, though I also think that there’s creative potential on the actual player side).

The “what are they learning” is a difficult question, and I’ve experienced quite closely experiments where the teaching aim was so obvious that it didn’t quite feel like a game any more (sort of gamification in the most naive sense). It reminds me of something I heard a couple years ago, from an Ed Game designer, who said he was often approached with things like “hey, I want to make a game for maths to be fun for my students”. His answer was sort of “if you don’t already think maths are fun already, we have a problem”…

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Hi,
my name is Raffaella and I work with students age 13-19 in bologna, Italy. I am looking forward to know new didactic approaches.

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Hi everyone,

I’m Meherab. I live and work in Bangladesh. I work in a Tobacco company & I look forward to learning with you in the coming weeks.

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Hello everyone
My name is Shahad , I’m working at TalentS Company as Learning Manager in CL business line .

I’m happy to be with you, and excited to growing together .

Hi everyone!!!

I´m Sofia from Spain. I can speak Spanish, English, Japanese and a bit of other Latin languages, at least it will be nice enough to communicate with you all!

I´m Professor and Researcher on training at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. I teach art didactics to teachers to be at preschool and elementary school my major is Art Education & Arts and Handicrafts and Japanese art education focused on the paradigm Zoukei Asobi.

Sooooo, creative learning is my lifeeeeeee!!!

I would like to make connections and friends with interesting people like you and learn as much as possible about learning ways and creativity. Both themselves or together!

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Totally agree!

My field was mostly major, popular video games. Popular perception is that these teach nothing, but is never the case. A game inherently teaches SOMETHING or it’s not a game at all. An example is online shooters training visual attention and acuity. There are similar results of mental rotation ability. The challenge is reverse-engineering from a learning goal toward a fun game. Popular games almost exclusively design from a fun game mechanic to it-doesn’t-matter-what-players-learn.

All that said, games like Minecraft are probably a lot closer to the LCL framework :smiley:

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Hello!!!
I am Soma from Varanasi, :india:India. I strongly believe learning should be fun and being a pre-primary teacher strongly believe teaching our little birdies is all about developing and promoting creativity and high-order thinking skills that increase the performance of the students.
I am here to embrace creativity as part of learning and teaching and use the most effective strategies for divergent and convergent thinking.
I am excited to learn from and with you.

:slightly_smiling_face::slightly_smiling_face:

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Completely agree!

(BTW, I was in Varanasi back in 2016 and it fascinated me :heart_eyes: )

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Hi!
I’m Michal from Israel.
I’ve finished studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics and now I work as a data analyst.
I love learning new things all the time and creativeness and design are some big passions of mine that I’d like to develop a bit more. Combining all these with education, I want to learn how to implement change in a fun and affective way.

Nice to meet you all!

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