The Participate team has had the privilege of taking with partners in the Learning Through Play initiative funded by the Lego partners for the past few years and decided for today’s episode to compile a highlight reel for the series focused on communities of practice!

In this episode, we talk with the Scaling Learning through Play with Technology (Tech and Play) research collaborative team at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). The research collaborative supports the Lego foundation’s extensive work promoting learning through play (LtP) globally. Through the Tech and Play research collaborative, EDC brings together research and implementation partners to work in Brazil, Denmark, Kenya, and Rwanda to (1) increase our knowledge about the benefits of LtP with technology in diverse national contexts and (2) enable the establishment of sustainable LtP with technology programs.

Today’s episode features Anna Netto, Research and Pedagogical Innovation Coordinator for the Creative Schools Program. The conversation focuses on the role of communities of practice in the Creative Schools program dedicated to supporting local and regional governments in Brazil in transforming public schools into more playful, hands-on and stimulating environments for all students. 

In Episode 2, the team from the Plug in Play initiative in Rwanda joins the Participate team to discuss the impact of communities of practice. The conversation focuses on both in-person and the the online community of practice, Tinkerspace, that joins partners across countries participating in the Learning Through Play initiative funded by the Lego Foundation.

Since 2021, the Tech & Play community of practice, TInkerspace, has provided a space for research partners to share their experiences, resources, and insights with one another. Now that we are in the final year of the program, we are taking the opportunity to invite implementers, researchers, and specialist partners to reflect on their journey within this community.

This podcast series has two main goals. First, to have partners look back and reflect on their experience in the community – what worked well and what could have been done better. It’s a learning experience for the whole community. Secondly, partners are invited to look forward and think about how they want to leverage the networks and relationships they have built over the past four years.

Host Julie Keane and recurring guest, Kimm Murfitt, come back to discuss highlights from the Sustainability series with partners from Learning LEGO Foundation’s Tech and Play Initiative. Participate is supporting the initiative with an online Community of Practice, Tinkerspace, that brings together a diverse group of partner organizations across the globe dedicated to the Lego Foundation’s goal of supporting Learning Through Play.  This episode includes a discussion and highlights from each of the four partner projects: The Creative Schools team in Brazil, KPLAY team in Kenya, the Play@Heart team in Denmark, and the Plug in Play team from Rwanda.

Welcome to a four-part series of Participate podcasts on the topic of sustainability with partners working with the LEGO Foundation’s Tech and Play Initiative.  Participate is supporting the initiative with an online Community of Practice, Tinkerspace, that brings together a diverse group of partner organizations across the globe dedicated to the Lego Foundation’s goal of supporting Learning Through Play. 

On today’s episode we’ll meet the team at Play@Heart In Denmark!

Play@Heart is a school development project focused on playful approaches to understanding technology. The goal is to equip schools to enhance children's creative and experimental approach to the world. Through a pedagogical exploration expedition, the project investigates the interaction between children's play with digital technologies and their development and learning.

Welcome to episode 4 in the four-part series of Participate podcasts on the topic of sustainability with partners working with the LEGO Foundation’s Tech and Play Initiative. Participate is supporting the initiative with an online Community of Practice, Tinkerspace, that brings together a diverse group of partner organizations across the globe dedicated to the Lego Foundation’s goal of supporting Learning Through Play. 

On today's episode we talk to the team at the Creative Schools Program that is dedicated to supporting local and regional governments in Brazil in transforming public schools into more playful, hands-on and stimulating environments for all students.  

This is episode 2 of a four-part series of Participate podcasts on the topic of sustainability with partners working with the LEGO Foundation’s Tech and Play Initiative. On this episode we talk to the team at Plug-in-Play (PiP) project that introduces Learning through Play and Technology (LtPT) through innovative approaches to support the delivery of Science Elementary Technology (SET) to improve learning outcomes for upper primary students in Rwanda. These approaches include making and tinkering, coding and robotics.  Responding to the Government of Rwanda’s commitment to leverage technology to promote holistic skill development among children, the PiP project works in partnership with key stakeholders at the national, regional, and district levels to implement LtPT approaches in upper primary classrooms.

Welcome to the first episode of a four-part series of Participate podcasts on the topic of sustainability with partners working with the LEGO Foundation’s Tech and Play Initiative.  Participate is supporting the initiative with an online Community of Practice, Tinkerspace, that brings together a diverse group of partner organizations across the globe dedicated to the Lego Foundation’s goal of supporting Learning Through Play

On Today’s episode we talk to the amazing team from The Kenya Play (KPLAY) program whose approach is to integrate Learning Through Play with Technology (LtPT) in Kwale and Kilifi counties of coastal Kenya.