The World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report places creative problem solving in the top three skills the job market will require from 2020. Imaginative play helps children learn how to innovate, problem solve and think critically throughout their lives.” It’s not important for parents to just provide children with the opportunity to learn these skills but also with the opportunity to utilise them in the longer term, as practice makes perfect. LEGO games are perfect example of a tool to implement these skills.
LEGOs, coloured pieces of plastic bricks, join like pieces of a puzzle to create modules. The modules then join to form whole space shuttles, buildings from the Tower Bridge to the Taj Mahal.
It is a popular saying that Rome wasn’t built in a day; neither can Lego be learnt in a span of seconds. Joining the blocks to develop ideas into themes is a step-by-step process. The brick-by-brick model building can be used to teach different concepts in mathematics such as area and perimeter or computational thinking for learning coding for children as they grow older, turning play into passion.
LEGO games can inspire learning of lifelong skills. The Guardian, a British newspaper, details the public disclosure of David Beckham’s love for LEGO games. LEGO games enable the footballer to combat stress as well spend time with his family, teaching them to Build it like Beckham. He’s not the only celebrity to vouch for the skills learnt from LEGO.
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The World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report places creative problem solving in the top three skills the job market will require from 2020. Imaginative play helps children learn how to innovate, problem solve and think critically throughout their lives.
