• Rethink the role of school, learning and educators

• Understand playful learning and recognize the role of play in learning

• Experience and experiment tools and games to define, design and deliver new forms of powerful education

• Exchange experiences with peers to foster the development of a community of practice

“Our approach is based on four core elements, which we sometimes call the Four P’s of Creative Learning:

• Projects. People learn best when they are actively working on meaningful projects – generating new ideas, designing prototypes, refining iteratively.

• Peers. Learning flourishes as a social activity, with people sharing ideas, collaborating on projects, and building on one another’s work.

• Passion. When people work on projects they care about, they work longer and harder, persist in the face of challenges, and learn more in the process.

• Play. Learning involves playful experimentation – trying new things, tinkering with materials, testing boundaries, taking risks, iterating again and again.”

• Mitchel Resnick, MIT

“Even though play is a universal experience, it is also a cultural construct. Who children play with, when and where they play, when they stop playing … these are all determined by communities, the resources available, and teachers’ leaning goals.” Lynneth Solis, Project Zero Harvard

• Discover the love for Play (or a theoretical argument for playing in class)

• What is playful learning and how can we use it for learning purposes

• Free ply vs structured play

• Tools, resources and games to play and assess playful experiences

The course is  designed as an immersive experience – a learning journey supported by a real project based learning school. The learning process will foster an effective personal and professional transformation