About the project

With the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, Danish schools were suddenly required to move to online teaching. Although this was challenging for both teachers and students, the situation also encouraged creativity and innovation, as teachers explored new ways to engage students in meaningful and creative learning activities using digital technologies. These approaches were investigated in the previous project Distance Learning through Play.

 

Building on these experiences, Digital Learning through Play aimed to enable, empower, and engage teachers to experiment with creative and playful approaches to teaching with digital technologies. The project sought to support child-centred, meaningful learning experiences that increased students’ motivation, engagement, and joy of learning. It also explored how a capacity-building approach based on modular resources and local adaptation could support the wider adoption of Learning through Play attitudes and practices among Danish teachers and school leaders.

 

Together with nine Danish primary schools, the project developed and tested module-based resources designed to support local school development and collaborative experimentation. Teachers, pedagogical supervisors, and school leaders worked alongside CFU consultants to build a shared professional language, knowledge base, and practical skills for designing and implementing playful teaching with digital technologies.

 

The project also contributed to building a knowledge base and a professional community around playful approaches to digital teaching. This community of practice built on the existing Distance Learning through Play network and served as a platform for inspiration, knowledge sharing, and peer-to-peer professional development for teachers, school leaders, and pedagogical consultants.

 

The project ran from June 2022 to May 2023.

 

The project is supported by the LEGO Foundation. 

 

About the LEGO Foundation  
The LEGO Foundation shares the mission of the LEGO Group: to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow. The Foundation is dedicated to building a future in which learning through play empowers children to become creative, engaged, lifelong learners. Its work is about re-defining play and re-imagining learning. In collaboration with thought leaders, influencers, educators, and parents the LEGO Foundation aims to equip, inspire and activate champions for play. www.learningthroughplay.com