Why Creative Learning at Home?
Creative Learning at Home creates opportunities for children, teenagers, parents and other family members to create, learn, socialize and have fun with materials, tools and spaces that are already a part of their routines outside school and work.
Creative learning is...
an educational approach that aims for a more creative, active, meaningful and playful education for everyone. It revolves around the 4 P’s: projects, passion, peers and play. Creative Learning believes that learning is enhanced when we are given the opportunity to create things that are meaningful to us, be it a homemade toy, a poem or a computer program. This process becomes even richer when we are encouraged to collaborate with other people and explore materials and concepts in a free and playful way.
Rather than being a linear process, Creative Learning works as a spiral where we first imagine what we’d like to create. Then, we create something, playing with materials and ideas in the process. Next, we share our creations, and finally we reflect upon what we learned, making us imagine once again.
This educational approach is important because as we experience the Creative Learning spiral, we get to dive into interesting topics and exercise our ability to create and implement ideas that are meaningful to us and to our community.
The importance of Play
How can we support children in their process of becoming creative thinkers?
By offering opportunities for them to explore their space, just like they do in parks and playgrounds. By giving them a chance to experiment, explore, collaborate and express their ideas. Have you ever noticed the way children come up with new games by themselves when they’re at the playground?
We can replicate and nurture that playground setting at home by offering children opportunities to stimulate their creativity: learning through play. This way, they can experiment, test new ideas and use their mistakes to make adjustments and try again throughout the process. Chasing dreams, seizing the unexpected, seeing failure as an opportunity to create something new, sharing resources and learning from other people are necessary skills to be successful and to be able to make the world a better place for everyone.
Course & Community
Learning Creative Learning – MIT
Website
Back to School with Creative Learning
Booklet
Learning through Play
LEGO Foundation
Brazilian Creative Learning Network (Rede Brasileira de Aprendizagem Criativa - RBAC)
We’re a network of educators, researchers, students, parents, artists, entrepreneurs, school managers and decision makers who are committed to making education more creative, active and meaningful for children and teenagers across Brazil.
Besides creating campaigns such as Creative Learning at Home, we organize festivals, conferences, workshops, fellowships and working groups in order to provide spaces that enable people to experiment with creative learning in a culturally relevant and sustainable way in every region of the country.
The Brazilian Network of Creative Learning is supported by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT Media Lab, Lemann Foundation, and by the LEGO Foundation in the Creative Learning at Home campaign.
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