“What you learn in the process of making something something that is yours – tend to sink much deeper into
the subsoil of your mind than what anyone can tell you”
“Instructionism means learning something by being told”
“Constructionism means learning by making something”
(Seymour Papert, MIT)
Leif Karlsen
Jette Duus
Robert Rasmussen
The History
of
The Plan
LEGO®SERIOUS®PLAY
15.30 – 15.40
Introduction
15.40 – 16.20
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (LSP) 101
16.20 – 17.15
Using LSP to discuss “How do we foster
autonomous active learning in engineering
education”
17.15 – 17.30
Presentations and closing
Force, gearing, speed, torque…….. by
building models of the tangible world
Synergy, communication, team work …. by
building models of the intangible world
Force, gearing, speed, torque…….. by
building models of the tangible world
Synergy, communication, team work …. by
building models of the intangible world
The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY method is a
facilitated thinking, communication and
problem solving technique for groups
Traditional brain-storming and problem solving meetings!
20 - 80
A LEGO SERIOUS PLAY meeting
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100 - 100
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Lean backward meeting
Lean forward meeting
20 – 80
100 - 100
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more participation
more insights
more ideas
more ownership
better decisions
Optimizing our brain-power through the
hand bone – mind bone connection
The Whole Brain Advantage
1. Controls the right side of your body
1. Controls the left of your body
2. Works sequentially with one thing at a
time
2. Works in parallel with multiple things at the
same time
3. Specializes in text. The words – not the
meaning
3. Specializes in the meaning of the word
rather than the text itself
4. Analyzes details and can only see
the parts
4. Can see the whole and how details fit into
that whole
Challenge 1 - Step 1
• open the bag
• find the black plate and the pink flower
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Step 2
Build a Tower
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Build individually
Start with the black plate
Finish with the flower
Use max 15 bricks total
You have 3 minutes
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The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Process
1
The facilitator asks the question you
have to answer by building a LEGO
model with a story
2
You ALL build individually and give
it meaning while you build
3
You ALL tell the rest of the group
the story in your model
4
Questions, insights, reflections,
identification of patterns
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Challenge 2 - step 1
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Challenge 2 - step 1
• Build one of these models on your sheet
• If you the time (and bricks) you can build more,
but don’t take the first one apart
• Wait for further instructions
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The Ground
• DON'T have meeting with
yourself. Just START building
• TRUST your hands. Let them pick
the bricks they want
• When you tell your story the
meaning will emerge
• DON‘T get bogged down in the
design
Step 2
A story about your passions
Take your model and modify it so you can use it to tell
the group a story about one of the things you are really
passionate about regarding engineering education
Work on your story individually and in silence till we say stop
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Challenge 3 – step 1
What is ACTIVE LEARNING for YOU?
Build a model so you can tell the group the story about what
ACTIVE LEARNING is NOT - for YOU!
Work on your story individually and in silence till we say stop.
You will have about 4 minutes
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Challenge 4 – step 1
“How do we foster
Autonomous Active Learning
in engineering education?”
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A
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B
C
1. You all build your
individual answer to
the question
3. You negotiate your
individual models into
ONE shared answer that
you all are happy with
2. You all share your
individual
stories/answers to the
question
2. You tell and record
your shared story
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Success with this aspiration means having fostered students that
when they leave school and enter the REAL WOLRD of WORK are
fully capable and confident in achieving their objectives and goals
by operating in “Columbus mode”
Being an
autonomous
active learner
Being passively taught
Year- one
Graduation
Challenge 4 – step 1
Build a model (individually) that tells the story about
1) What you believe we need to focus on in order to
effectively FOSTER AUTONOMOUS ACTIVE LAERNING in
engineering education
2) Why we need to have that focus
Challenge 4 – step 1
Build a model (individually) that tells the story about
1) What you believe we need to focus on in order to
effectively FOSTER AUTONOMOUS ACTIVE LAERNING in
engineering education
2) Why we need to have that focus
- developing new tools and ways for better teaching or
- changing the curriculum or
- forcing deep learning whatever means it takes or
- developing new tools and ways for students to learn “better” or……………
3) You have about 5 minutes for the individual building
A
A
B
B
C
1. You all build your
individual answer to
the question
3. You negotiate your
individual models into
ONE shared answer that
you all are happy with
2. You all share your
individual
stories/answers to the
question
2. You tell and record
your shared story
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