Experience Workshop attended the annual LUMA days which took place at the Aalto University in Espoo on the 13-14. of June, after a 2-year pandemic break. The Finnish acronym LUMA combines science and mathematics, but this year these topics were also connected to arts and economy. The event offered a varied programme on the theme[…]
On the 20th of May, a discussion and a workshop related to the book Playful Learning in Early Childhood Education in Finland took place in the library of the University of Jyväskylä. The event was integrated into Jyväskylä’s most popular Yläkaupungin Yö festival.
Experience Workshop provided professional and management background to the Hungarian high school Áron Szilády in their Erasmus+ KA121 mobility project. 16 ninth grade (14-year-old) students and 4 teachers visited Finland from the school. Their wish was to get in touch with children and teachers and gain first-hand experience of Finnish education. We’ve established the connection[…]
As for our Erasmus+ PUNTE project, we took an important step forward in May. We organized five pilot courses in teacher training education for students in Komarno, at Selye János University. University teachers of Selye János University, Zoltán Fehér and László Jaruska hosted the event. Teacher trainers were Ildikó Szabó and Judit Mihály (Experience Workshop).[…]
The Multiplier event of the Erasmus+ project “Logifaces methodology” took place at the University of Lapland on March 28. Kristóf Fenyvesi, STEAM director of Experience Workshop, presented the means and results of art-based research in STEAM education. See the program here. Logifaces is a geometric skill development game created by Hungarian architect and designer Daniel Lakos. The original[…]
At “Norssi” School’s science days in Jyväskylä in mid-April we’ve also visited a second class of first-graders, Minna Suikkari’s class. We’ve moved out of the classroom to a comfortable inbetween space with carpet floor. Our idea was to introduce Platonic solids with the help of the colorful Itsphun toolkit. Itsphun is a system of interlocking shapes[…]