Building Blocks: Building Ideas!

Building Blocks: Building Ideas!


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Dream bicycle :)

We gift toys to kids as a symbol of hope. Adults believe a toy can bring joy, remove sadness! With age the kind of toys need to be replaced to provide an opportunity to enhance multiple intelligence. As human intelligence, generally is not characterised by just one trait like logical but by the combination of several diverse abilities.

Simplest learning for humans and machine is "trial and error". But we understand it cost time and money dearly with mere tangible outcomes. Though this is part of learning process and we do allow young ones to try in formative age.

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Imagination unlocked - Designs that connects human

Building blocks are a way out to try different types of learning. Since 2016 QtPi has continued to witness -

  1. The way kids start learning to design and build is "trial and error". As we understand this is simplest learning for humans.
  2. We don't encourage "items and procedures" way of learning, often seen in rote learning as this defeats the comprehension, articulation and try out of box.
  3. We encourage to apply past experience in building a project. For example, how can you make your previous experience of travel in school bus better?
  4. We ask kids to draw inferences from what they designed and what they believe.
  5. Build projects to solve a particular problem or build projects that has wider applications.

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Two teams combined to make a water theme project I Another team built drone model

In our previous week classes we saw that one group had designed sliders and other team had designed shower. Someone suggested to connect both the projects. It became a "water park" theme project. Another enthusiastic team designed drone structure using building blocks (at qtpi we call them as Qbricks).

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Tooth brush/Comb, Watch Tower, Windmill & TV :)
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Home & Helicopter :)
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Helicopter, Goggles
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Thinking Machine, Helicopter with Helipad
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Chariot & importantly Love! :)
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Animals, Gun & Cycle
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Humanoids
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Ankita Vashistha Lakshmi Devan Bhavna Suresh Madhura DasGupta Sinha Monika Halan Kirti Sapra Kirti T. Kirti Poonia Krusha Sahjwani Malkani Prof. Krushna Prasad Mishra . Gauri Das Kanchan Chandni

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