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What sets LEC apart from others?
LEC programmes are based on 'Learning by making' (Constructionism).
These programmes are designed to promote creative thinking,
improve communication and co-operation skills, and strengthen
the ability to acquire new knowledge.
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programme makes learning interesting, promotes deep
exploration of concepts learnt and allows learning
to last in the mind.' |
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-Professor Seymour Papert, MIT.
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learning happens especially
well when children are engaged in constructing meaningful
products, such as a sand castle, song, a machine
or a computer programme. |
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when students are involved
in creating something, making something, building
something, they are simultaneously building knowledge
in their minds. They are trying out ideas, making
conjectures and testing them, making connections
between ideas or re-organising them - in short,
they are building knowledge structures. |
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This newly formed knowledge
enables children to build even more sophisticated
constructions, which yields more knowledge in a
self-reinforcing cycle. |
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To further reinforce learning in
an interesting way, LEC uses the effective learning
process, the 4Cs in all our lessons:
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