Creativity Lab
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EXPLORE the Showcase
Showcase #1 "Iterations at Play!"
Meet Megan Oteri, the founder of Brick Scholars and a Lego "Serious Play" certified trainer. As a trainer, she takes her facilitation skills to you and adapts them to audience and project, from elementary students to university classes and corporate clients. See how she brings a serious and playful learning to the groups she works with. Keep reading... Showcase #2 Youmedia "hanging out, messing around, and geeking out" in an after school maker space for youth started in the Chicago Public Library (video below). Join me as I visit the Youmedia in Springfield, Ohio's Career ConnectED Center connecting youth, school, careers and local mentors. Keep reading . . . Showcase #3 not just for kids! Yume no Mizuumi Mura, or "Mizuumi Village of Dreams" a Japanese Senior Rehabilitation Center has reinvented how to grow old, embracing self-directed play that empowers seniors to make their own decisions. Keep reading . . . |
More SHOWCASE Wonders!
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Club Cyberia is a community based makerspace that provides its members a wide assortment of workshops and tools to make, from the traditional 3D printing to costume design (for Cosplay) and board game night.
Clubhouse Network started at MIT's Media Lab one of the nations leaders in the maker movement.
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IU-East Library: Family READ Club featured maker-spaces, demonstrations, and interactive stations.
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Global, Mobile &
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The barriers to education for the poor can be nearly insurmountable, particularly in the developing world. Learn about Sugata Mitra's dream of connecting people through technology to create their own SOLE, or "self-organized learning environment," which is a feature of the School in the Cloud.
MAKER BUS - Comes to You! You can find an assortment of similar Maker buses around the country, to serve a much larger community than just a classroom or a single facility. This Edutopia article features many variations.
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Lego VIRTUAL Conference
Originally the Lego Idea Conference was scheduled to be a real face-to-face gathering in Denmark, but with the Covid 19 closures, they decided to bring play virtually to their global community. The sponsor, the LEGO Foundation is a leader in compiling and spreading the value of playful learning |
Our SHARED Playful Idea Library
Add to our shared list of cool projects happening around the world, or even in your own neighborhood.
Send a link to joyced999 at hotmail.com and I will update the list that will be our Shared Playful Idea Library.
Send a link to joyced999 at hotmail.com and I will update the list that will be our Shared Playful Idea Library.
Playing Up is a UK based arts based initiative to bring adults and children together in artistic play
Counter Play a Denmark based initiative
Youth Makerspaces today (2015) Vodcast from Educator Innovator group
Counter Play a Denmark based initiative
Youth Makerspaces today (2015) Vodcast from Educator Innovator group