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Title: lunch&LEARN: 3T PLAY – At EPFL and Beyond
Presenter: Joelyn de Lima
Summary: The LEGO Foundation-funded “3T PLAY” project, at EPFL, developed and tested playful activities with tangible objects, for teaching process skills to engineering students.
Our students, with their specialised engineering skills, will lead the design and development of apps, tools and algorithms with far reaching consequences for society. However, we often overlook the importance of their transversal, or process, skills for the collaboration, design and organisation phases of the creation of these engineered products.
3T PLAY targets these essential skills, using the in the moment focus of a playful approach to create micro-experiential learning opportunities. In this hands-on lunch&LEARN session, the audience discovered the activities designed to increase engineering students’ ability to apply strategies for integrating a diverse set of such process skills with their technical knowledge.
Highlighting both the capacity of transversal skills to enable students to align their engineering actions with their human and planetary responsibilities and become adept professionals, this session is of interest for both researchers (data & findings) and educators (practical activity guides).
Access the full open-source book (Teaching Transversal Skills for Engineering Students: A practical playbook of activities with tangibles) here:
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