Wenchao He

I. Background information

Simia Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., the general agent of Lego Group's Ministry of Education in China, proposed the cooperation intention to Beijing Normal University Zhuhai Branch. After mutual investigation, the two sides decided on the direction of cooperation, and planned to establish Lego Education Research Center in the School of Education, Zhuhai Branch of Beijing Normal University to carry out the project. The following is the background analysis of "Lego Education Research Center Construction Project":

Overview of Lego Group 1. 1

The Danish Lego Group was founded in 1932, with 50 companies in 30 countries around the world and 10000 employees. The company's original products were escalators, ironing boards and wooden toys. Since then, the Lego toy series has developed rapidly. Up to now, Lego educational products are divided into three series, namely mechanical series, energy series, classroom robot and early education series. They have been widely used in kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools in some countries.

1.2 About Lego Education

1.2. 1 the concept and purpose of Lego education

Lego's educational philosophy is "interesting learning". Combining the teaching concepts of "learning by doing" and "entertaining through education", we use Lego educational tools to cultivate students' innovative spirit and promote the cultivation of comprehensive quality, so that students can learn multidisciplinary knowledge in the process of active participation, find their own unique solutions, and improve their hands-on and brain-thinking abilities.

Lego Education provides educational solutions based on problem-solving methods. They help children learn to cooperate and solve challenging problems by promoting creative thinking, improving communication and cooperation skills and enhancing their ability to acquire new knowledge, and lay an important foundation for acquiring a wide range of personal skills. Lego education always takes children's educational needs as the core, and strives to promote children's construction, learning and growth in a fruitful and beneficial activity environment.

1.2.2 Development of Lego education

The global synchronous Lego learning tool developed by the Lego Ministry of Education in cooperation with top experts in the field of education emphasizes the development of knowledge and skills, involving animals, environment, social sciences, architecture, machinery, electronics, computers, automation, mathematics, physics and other science and technology. Lego designs corresponding toy equipment according to the characteristics of children of different ages. And each equipment is equipped with teaching plans for teachers to use to ensure that each teaching activity can achieve the expected goals.

1.2.3 Lego activity center

Lego activity center is a derivative project of Lego education outside school. At present, in Europe, America, Australia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and other countries, Lego education centers or other after-school activities centered on Lego learning tools have been set up. Provide colorful activity resources such as Lego bricks, building manuals, counselors' reference materials, student exercise books and so on in a thematic way. The center is mainly for children aged 3- 10. Lego Activity Center was introduced to China in 2003 by Simia Technology Development (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. as the general agent in China. After nearly two years of experiments, they plan to promote this project nationwide, and it is expected to open 200 Jialegao activity centers within three years.

1.3 Lego and Beijing Normal University Zhuhai Branch * * * Building "Lego Education Research Center" and its main functions.

Beijing Normal University plays an important role in the field of national education. Beijing Normal University Zhuhai Branch is responsible for the teaching organization and management. Beijing Normal University attaches great importance to the education quality and school-running level of Zhuhai Branch, and sends experienced management cadres to take charge of the administration, education and teaching management of the branch. The School of Education of Zhuhai Branch also has relevant research on "Industry-University-Research's R&D Cooperation and Market Expansion". Therefore, Simia Company issued a letter of intent for cooperation, hoping that the Lego Education Research Center can be successfully established in Beijing Normal University Zhuhai Branch and managed by the College of Education.

The main functions undertaken by Lego Education Research Center are: to study the application of advanced educational methods and models in China; As a training base for "Lego Education" in South China and Southwest China; International exchange, etc. At present, the urgent task is to train full-time and part-time teachers for Lego activity center and formulate specific teaching programs.

Second, the main planning

2. 1 Establish Lego education experimental base and carry out research projects.

2. 1. 1 Comparative experiment

In the kindergarten that signed the contract to become the Lego education experimental base, we conducted Lego education and training for children, and made a comparative experiment to verify whether the Lego education model is significant in promoting children's creativity and hands-on ability.

2. 1.2 Curriculum development

In the process of comparative experiments, teachers who implement Lego courses need to review and record each lesson. If the experimental results are significant, the course records can be developed into teaching plans and fixed; If the experimental results are not significant, change to another group of experimental subjects, re-teach, change the teaching form and content, strive for its effect close to the course objectives, then record the course until the results are significant, and then fix the course.

2. 1.3 practice base

Lego Education Experimental Base is also an internship base for students from the Department of Children's Education and the Department of Education Management of the College of Education. Students from the two departments can participate in the teaching, experiment and management of Lego courses when they reach their senior year.

2.2 the establishment of Lego education teacher training system

Teachers of Lego education should receive regular training, so that they can better implement teaching according to the curriculum regulations, and in the process, collect feedback information and carry out curriculum development.

2.3 Promote Lego Education Project to Zhuhai Kindergarten

After completing the training in the Lego Education Experimental Base and obtaining the first significant experimental report, the Lego Education Research Center of the Institute of Education began to promote kindergartens in Zhuhai and surrounding areas, thus creating income.

2.3. 1 Leased equipment

Cooperative kindergartens can rent Lego educational tools and equipment, carry out holiday Lego curriculum projects, or assist kindergartens in regular teaching.

teacher training

Cooperative kindergartens need to carry out Lego curriculum projects and must have qualified teachers. Therefore, the center provides them with teacher training, including a set of curriculum plans.

2.4 the establishment of Lego scholarship evaluation mechanism

30% of the proceeds from the promotion of the center project will be used as Lego scholarships, which will be distributed to students who have made outstanding contributions to the center, other students with excellent academic performance and financial difficulties in the College of Education, and other students with outstanding social work achievements.

Therefore, the center needs to establish an evaluation mechanism to evaluate and award prizes once a year. Establish a Lego Scholarship Review Committee to review each scholarship application and each applicant and determine the annual winners list.