{"id":14955,"date":"2023-02-02T13:56:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T13:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/?p=14955"},"modified":"2023-02-02T13:56:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T13:56:54","slug":"lts-get-serious-with-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2023\/02\/02\/lts-get-serious-with-lego\/","title":{"rendered":"LTs get serious with Lego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Learning Technology team had the opportunity to get involved in a Lego<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>Serious Play<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0workshop with practitioner <a href=\"mailto:hhenderson@bournemouth.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Holly Henderson<\/a> from FLIE. In these workshops, Lego is used to model themes and visualise ideas in a safe space which fosters communication where everyone&#8217;s voice is heard.<\/p>\n<p>In our team building activity, the team explored different themes, including personal values and positive feedback, articulating our ideas through the medium of Lego. Each phase involved a challenge, building and then reflecting and sharing the meaning of our models. Getting hands-on with the tool generated lots of creativity and discussion, and everyone really enjoyed the experience. The session also served as an introduction for the team to the Lego<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Serious Play<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> methodology and helped us gain an understanding of its practice and application in education.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14956\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2023\/02\/Lego-models.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14956\" class=\"wp-image-14956 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2023\/02\/Lego-models-300x206.png\" alt=\"Lego model examples\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2023\/02\/Lego-models-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2023\/02\/Lego-models.png 606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some examples of our Lego models<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;it was a really interesting way to work, using lateral thinking&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;it was useful to understand the practice and application of Lego<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Serious Play<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> in other disciplines&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Further resources<\/h2>\n<p>Lego, 2010. <em>Introduction to Lego<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Serious Play<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> [online] Available from:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lego.com\/cdn\/cs\/set\/assets\/blt8ec1d6ff766ddfd4\/LEGO_SERIOUS_PLAY_OpenSource_14mb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.lego.com\/cdn\/cs\/set\/assets\/blt8ec1d6ff766ddfd4\/LEGO_SERIOUS_PLAY_OpenSource_14mb.pdf<\/a> [Accessed 2 February 2023].<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested to know more, contact Dr Holly Henderson: <a href=\"mailto:hhenderson@bournemouth.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hhenderson@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Learning Technology team had the opportunity to get involved in a Lego\u00ae Serious Play\u00ae\u00a0workshop with practitioner Dr Holly Henderson from FLIE. In these workshops, Lego is used to model themes and visualise ideas in a safe space which fosters communication where everyone&#8217;s voice is heard. In our team building activity, the team&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2023\/02\/02\/lts-get-serious-with-lego\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about LTs get serious with Lego<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2810,"featured_media":14965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[852,296,5],"tags":[1338],"class_list":["post-14955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lego","category-lego-serious-play","category-news","tag-team-building"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14955"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14966,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14955\/revisions\/14966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}