Inventing and learning through real practices
Organize a Festival of Invention and Creativity (FIC) in your region! With interactive shows, hands-on workshops and lots of fun, FICs represent a super opportunity to recognize, celebrate and amplify local initiatives that help make our education more creative, relevant and hands-on, inside and outside schools! Nothing better than inspiring through example, right?
- Leo Burd. Director of the Brazilian Creative Learning Network.
The Festivals of Invention and Creativity (FICs) are regional celebrations of the inventive, collaborative and hands-on spirit of Brazilian education. At the festivals, children, youth, their families, educators and the school community have the opportunity to explore materials and technologies, participate in activities, and experience stimulating, interesting, meaningful, ...
The first Festival of Invention and Creativity of Instituto Anísio Teixeira had as its main objective to show that through a simple proposal, it is possible to have a pleasant, joyful, collaborative and hands-on learning experience. The event was very well received by the public, bringing the institutions present at the bases of Creative Learning. But what really marked this moment was the curiosity and excitement of students and teachers to see that with practical day-to-day materials, it is possible to have a meaningful and hands-on learning, showing that education can be something tangible and transdisciplinary. The two days of FIC were about passion, thinking while playing, projects and especially PARTNERSHIPS.
- Arlindo Matheus. Creative Learning and Maker Culture Coordinator. Anísio Teixeira Institute
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