Home is not school, nor should it be… effective informal learning can take place at home

This Guardian article is a timely reminder that learning takes many forms and trying to create a formal learning experience in your home is actually unproductive. If one good thing comes of the Coronavirus it might be re-discovering the joy of informal learning.

Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

Paul Ramchandani, Lego professor of play (now that is a job title I wouldn’t mind, even with the considerable jeopardy of stepping on a Lego brick with just my socks on!) at the University of Cambridge explains: Don’t turn your home into school … the Lego professor of play on lockdown learning | The Guardian

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