Learning through play with LEGO Braille Bricks

Right from the earliest moments of infancy, children have an amazing natural potential to learn about the world through play. At the LEGO Foundation, we see learning through play as crucial for children's positive development, regardless of their situation.

With thousands of audiobooks and computer programs on the market today fewer young people are learning braille. This is particularly critical when we know that individuals with blindness all over the world rely on braille to work, study and enjoy their daily lives to the fullest.

LEGO Braille Bricks offers a groundbreaking and inclusive opportunity to teach and help develop skills amongst sighted and unsighted children using the same tool.

The aim of the course is to support you as a practitioner working with visually impaired children to use a unique and playful hands-on tool to teach pre-braille and braille, apply a play-based method to develop the holistic skills needed to succeed, collaborate with peers to further develop the way LEGO Braille Bricks can be used to support visually impaired children in an inclusive setting.

Over this course, we will provide you with useful information that will give you a solid understanding of learning through play and how to teach braille in a playful and engaging way.

You will also learn crucial facilitation tips to support children with visual impairments to develop academic and specific skills using LEGO Braille Bricks.

We hope you will join us and are ready to play.

Join the Learning through Play with LEGO® Braille Bricks course

Join us whenever you're ready, and learn at your own pace:

In English - https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learning-braille-through-play-with-lego-braille-bricks/1

In French - https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learning-through-play-with-lego-braille-bricks-french

In Spanish - https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learning-through-play-with-lego-braille-bricks-spanish

Experience the benefits of play to engage children with learning braille

Children are engaged in learning from birth – tackling problem solving, communication, collaboration, and exploration from their earliest weeks.

An often-overlooked way that children learn is through play. On this course you’ll discover the principles of learning through play, and how to apply these when teaching pre-braille and braille, using LEGO Braille Bricks.

Apply a play-based method to teaching braille skills

You’ll explore how to foster a breadth of skills in all children, recognising the value of playful facilitation in learning.

You will also discover how the LEGO Braille Bricks concept can be used in inclusive education, allowing visually impaired children to interact with classmates in a fun and interactive way.

Reflect on how to experiment and collaborate with learning

You’ll be encouraged to share learning ideas with others, and collaboratively develop further LEGO Braille Brick activities.

Get playful tips and tricks from the LEGO Foundation’s pedagogy experts, and come away confidently able to create your own braille activities and lesson plans.