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orngjce223
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07 Oct 2008, 9:22 pm

My brother is quite adept with Lego Technic pieces. He's HFA/gifted, a lot like I am.

To be honest, I've sometimes taken his designs apart and made my own... I turned one of his square-rigger ships into a caravel once. He was not pleased. (I was.)


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11 Oct 2008, 7:05 am

It's better to create than to destroy!


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13 Oct 2008, 1:33 pm

Well it does bring out creativity.


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16 Oct 2008, 10:34 pm

LEGO is one of my favorite toys! I still have many of the sets I had when I was a kid. I find this paragraph very interesting:

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One child acted as the “engineer” and described the instructions, another as the “supplier” finding the correct pieces, and the “builder” put the pieces together. After a time, they would swap roles. Later, they would play “freestyle” in pairs, designing and building a model space rocket, for example, which allowed them to practise compromise, express their ideas clearly and take others' ideas into account.


This is basically the collaboration that happens in the 'real world' on a job, and I do very much the same thing on a daily basis as I design audiovisual systems, and put them together. This is a great way to learn life skills for any child. Having schoolkids play "ball and stick" sports and other competitive things to me, just fosters bullying, and doesn't really promote teamwork. This, OTOH, promotes cooperation, and also places a challenge to work towards a common goal



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17 Oct 2008, 6:32 am

In seriousness, there is not one child I've heard of that outright dislikes legos.

They're awesome.

Kinex are pretty good too.


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